If you’re thinking ‘Date Night,’ you’re going to be disappointed. It’s a kind of follow on from the age thing. I am going to a 60th Birthday party. The issue being, it’s my nephew and I remember the night he was born. I was laid in bed with his sister, no stop right there. I was four-years -old and she was two. We were reading the Radio Times (it was a BBC T.V guide) I have no idea why and as we were feral kids on a farm, it’s quite possible we weren’t reading it. But I guess I’m going to have to come to terms with the fact he is actually sixty.
As soon as he could walk we had him out on the farm. He made a great test pilot. We once built a boat, or found a log, same thing when you’re five years old. We’d been warned to keep away from the lake. The adults called it a stagnant pond, but what do they know? One thing we didn’t know was the logs roll in the water. It took us quite a while to fish my two-year-old nephew out of the stinking quagmire 😂
Another place we were warned to keep away from was my brother-in-law’s wood pile. You can see a theme here can’t you 😉 One day we built a homestead on it. Some may say it was shack, hut or den but we were pioneers of the West. Rawhide, Cheyenne, Bonanza… you know that sort of thing. As he was the smallest it seemed sensible for him to enter first. After a loud crack and a scream we thought it prudent to take a look. He’d fallen through the floor and was surrounded by four foot nettles. All I can say is thank goodness for dock leaves and Massey band 😂
Anyaways, he survived those times and some more. So it should be a fun night. Have a great weekend folks 😘
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From the title, I was going to suggest you take some vitamins. And a nap.
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Haha, Thank you, Stephen 😂😁
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🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 That’s me chuckling my way through your post.
I’m surprised your nephew made it to sixty, Charlie.
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Good and thank you, Mary. Yup he looked fit and well last night 😂
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Beautiful story of your nephew 😀😀 Loved to read it ☺️😊
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Thank you, so much 😁😁
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🤗😊😊😄😄😄 you are welcome 🙂🙂
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Wow, that was a nice trip down memory lane. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks, Pete it was more or less my speech last night 😂😂
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Sounds like a proper childhood. 🙂
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Ouch. It’s a hard one to come to terms with. I remember our family friend having her first kid, then her second. I rocked them in my arms and gave them their bottles. The eldest is now 23 and it’s just weird. Weird on all levels. I can only imagine what that baby-turned-adult being 60 must do. Headfuck.
I love your childhood tales. See, if you’d been good & always listened to the adults then you wouldn’t have these stories to tell!
Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Rawhide!
Keep them dogies rollin’ rawhide!!
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Yeah, and it’s even worse when you haven’t seen them for years. I saw a lot of my friends daughter from her being born to around seven, then I moved away and the next time I saw her she was 21, that was strange. But she did bring a small knitted dinosaur to show me… I’d bought fo her when she was 3 years old, so that was sweet.
If you want me to do something just tell me I can’t do it 😂
Ahhh, Rawhide! 😉 Clint Eastwood is 90 now 😂
Thanks, Caz 😀😀
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Okay, so it’s over!!!
I’m late, I’m late, and I didn’t have a date!
Yes, it is so strange when suddenly it’s 60 years on and we didn’t even know the years were rollin’ past as quickly as they did.
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Haha, Carolyn, yup it’s over. I did my speech and couldn’t wait to get out lol. My nephew had one table with all his young men (he owns a butcher’s shop) and their partners and I’m sat on the other table with all the old relatives. I used to be sat on the young table 😂😂
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Just thinking of you, Charlie… Here’s hoping all is well…
xoxoxo
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Aww, thanks, Carolyn. I’m good, works been busy and cramming lots of races in before end of season, so lots of runs 🥵 And pushing Mr Khan everywhere. Then I’ve got 104,000 words down on another book, so editing like crazy. Don’t seem to have a blog post in me at the moment 😂😂 xx
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It’s good to know that ‘life’ is keeping you busy.
Another book! You will let me know when you publish. Then again – that would be most deserving of its own blog post…
xoxoxo
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Beautiful story…loved it👍
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Thank you so much 😁
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Hilarious, chuckling out loud at you little whipper snappers setting a toddler afloat on a rolling log!
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Thank you, Anne, it was a laugh 😆
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Wonderful write, Charlie. 😃
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Thank you, Monica 😀
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I used to sleep with my male cousin when we were little. My maternal grandmother had a small house. When I was 9, he was 3 and he drove me crazy, kicking on the bed (laying on his stomach, raising and dropping his leg…in his sleep, no less). He was like a little brother to me and we spent summers playing together. It was a different time.
Do you feel old?
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It certainly was, my niece is 2 years younger and my nephew 4 years younger. We spent all the holidays together on the farm.
Do I feel old? Yes and no. I don’t feel any different than I did 20/30/40 years ago. But my body is starting to object a little, recovery from exercise takes longer. I’m hoping it holds out a bit longer, there’s things it needs to do yet 😂 I’d like to pop my clogs before I get too old though. I’ve never liked hanging around once the party is over 😉
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“Pop my clogs?” Yorkshire colloquialism?
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Yes, when I snuff it, slip my mortal chord 😂
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That all sounds like the lyrics to a song…
“Pop my clogs
When I snuff it
I’ll slip my mortal chord
And, wave goodbye”
😉
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Could have fitted into a Soft Cell song 😉
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Tee-hee
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