Look on the bright side of life.

[Draggletail]

An Evening With My Sixteen Year Old Son Who's Staying For The Night

We're sat together, eating a box of maltersers, and later in the evening pringles. Watching a much anticipated film on TV. I have no idea what this film is about, (H.P Lovecraft) After a while My concentration goes and I'm lost. I open a beer, and enjoy. My son is happy, I'm happy, we're both happy. I dig him in the ribs and we laugh. He gets me back later by getting me in a finger lock. When he was younger I used to pretend that he'd got me and I couldn't get out of it. These days I don't have to pretend. Me and my youngest son, precious time together. How fortunate I am.

[hackey lad]

31 minutes ago, Draggletail said:

An Evening With My Sixteen Year Old Son Who's Staying For The Night

We're sat together, eating a box of maltersers, and later in the evening pringles. Watching a much anticipated film on TV. I have no idea what this film is about, (H.P Lovecraft) After a while My concentration goes and I'm lost. I open a beer, and enjoy. My son is happy, I'm happy, we're both happy. I dig him in the ribs and we laugh. He gets me back later by getting me in a finger lock. When he was younger I used to pretend that he'd got me and I couldn't get out of it. These days I don't have to pretend. Me and my youngest son, precious time together. How fortunate I am.

Beautiful . 

[echo beach]

On 23/07/2024 at 08:34, cressida said:

Sunshine at the front and rear of the house,  I also like dappled sunsine😊

At the same time? That defies the theories of physics unless you have a mirror at the bottom of your garden reflecting the light!😆

 

echo.

[hackey lad]

32 minutes ago, echo beach said:

At the same time? That defies the theories of physics unless you have a mirror at the bottom of your garden reflecting the light!😆

 

echo.

Not really . 

[Gormenghast]

6 hours ago, echo beach said:

At the same time? That defies the theories of physics 😆

 

echo.

 

In Newtonian physics that may be true, but at a quantum level some things can be in two places at the same time.

[echo beach]

1 hour ago, Gormenghast said:

 

In Newtonian physics that may be true, but at a quantum level some things can be in two places at the same time.

Well I’m afraid I live in the real world where I perceive things being in in one place at one time but at the quantum level that might account for why the fairer sex can multi-task whilst men can’t!😆

 

echo.

[echo beach]

11 hours ago, Draggletail said:

An Evening With My Sixteen Year Old Son Who's Staying For The Night

We're sat together, eating a box of maltersers, and later in the evening pringles. Watching a much anticipated film on TV. I have no idea what this film is about, (H.P Lovecraft) After a while My concentration goes and I'm lost. I open a beer, and enjoy. My son is happy, I'm happy, we're both happy. I dig him in the ribs and we laugh. He gets me back later by getting me in a finger lock. When he was younger I used to pretend that he'd got me and I couldn't get out of it. These days I don't have to pretend. Me and my youngest son, precious time together. How fortunate I am.

Yes Draggletail times like that are precious as you say.

Tempus fugit. Time flies. It certainly does. Doesn’t seem two minutes since my sons were just boys enjoying playing and making sand castles on a beach in summer. Now the eldest is edging towards 50 and the youngest towards 40 and they have families of their own.

We look after one granddaughter regularly and have done since she was born. When we’ve had her we’ve always tried to take her to new places where she normally wouldn’t get the chance to go. Now at nearly eleven she’s moving on to high school in September and I know that in a few years time she’ll not want to have ‘sleepovers’ anymore with Nannie and Granddad but that’s the circle of life and the memories are there for all to treasure.

Enjoy everyday as much as you can. Science hasn’t yet found a way we can relive them.

 

echo.

[Draggletail]

20 hours ago, hackey lad said:

Beautiful . 

Thanks hackey lad.

[Draggletail]

9 hours ago, echo beach said:

Yes Draggletail times like that are precious as you say.

Tempus fugit. Time flies. It certainly does. Doesn’t seem two minutes since my sons were just boys enjoying playing and making sand castles on a beach in summer. Now the eldest is edging towards 50 and the youngest towards 40 and they have families of their own.

We look after one granddaughter regularly and have done since she was born. When we’ve had her we’ve always tried to take her to new places where she normally wouldn’t get the chance to go. Now at nearly eleven she’s moving on to high school in September and I know that in a few years time she’ll not want to have ‘sleepovers’ anymore with Nannie and Granddad but that’s the circle of life and the memories are there for all to treasure.

Enjoy everyday as much as you can. Science hasn’t yet found a way we can relive them.

 

echo.

I have to say, I've never had a sense of time flying by, quite the opposite for me in my life, as I got a bit older! I know what you mean when you say that your granddaughter will eventually stop coming for sleepovers. That's crossed my mind regarding my youngest Son... this happened with my eldest Son a couple of years ago when he stopped staying over along with his younger brother, and it felt like a loss, but that gradually became replaced with coffee together in town for an hour or so once a week. And we text some days. Fortunately, we have mutual interests. 

[cressida]

On 24/07/2024 at 20:46, Draggletail said:

An Evening With My Sixteen Year Old Son Who's Staying For The Night

We're sat together, eating a box of maltersers, and later in the evening pringles. Watching a much anticipated film on TV. I have no idea what this film is about, (H.P Lovecraft) After a while My concentration goes and I'm lost. I open a beer, and enjoy. My son is happy, I'm happy, we're both happy. I dig him in the ribs and we laugh. He gets me back later by getting me in a finger lock. When he was younger I used to pretend that he'd got me and I couldn't get out of it. These days I don't have to pretend. Me and my youngest son, precious time together. How fortunate I am.

Love it