More on Peppa Pig

So today started well....up at 04:30hrs for nappy and breakfast at 05:00hrs, watching repeats of Peppa Pig first broadcast on Milkshake during the week....Thank goodness for Sky+...however that's not the tale today.....went to the local park to play on the swings, etc...BUT and here it comes...Peppa Pig is now a little boy.....

Mummy said "Where's your Peppa Pig hat"....much rummaging through Peppa Pig bag..."A here HE is"....oops, sorry guys!!!!

A small part of the Silverleaf Trilogy

That’s a story for another time. As his eyes grew accustomed to the darkening sky, he spurred his horse and headed Forenya, dust and stones flew up behind him creating a storm, the Monastery disappearing far behind him…he remembered the blessing of the Abbot, an early Celtic Benediction, he recited it to himself….word for word…

 

“Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the infinite peace to you.”

 

The Abbots’ final blessing was simple and more to his liking

 

“Slainte mhor agus a h-uile beannachd duibh”

 

Which in common tongue means “Good health and every good blessing to you!”

 

With that ringing in his ears and heart he sped ever Forenyawards on the only road out of the safe-haven towards the last inn on the edge of the forest before heading off into the hostile mountains at day break….

The hurt never goes away, nor does it dull…

OK so it’s been a long time since I last blogged something, the trilogy has also taken a bit of a back seat for obvious reasons, so here goes…

 

It’s just over 2 weeks since what should have been our daughter’s 3^rd birthday, only this time we made the decision to leave Grace with the child-minder and go alone…it’s a tough decision to make as Grace is part of the family but we didn’t want her seeing us getting upset…given time we’ll tell her that she has an older sister but at the moment she’s too young to understand, although we do mention Emily in our prayers every night before settling Grace down to sleep. And it gave us some time to be together and actually go to the cinema…yes OK we went to see the new “Star-Trek” movie, at 09:30…!!!

 

Sleep, the one thing every parent needs, at the moment we’re getting between 6 – 8 hours a night depending on what time we turn in and what time Grace stirs in the morning…it’s now around 05:15hrs which is great because I leave for the Metropolis at 07:00hrs, so who needs an alarm clock when you’re on baby-time….

Before returning to the blog a bit of sad news, we lost our eldest bunny last month and our foster bunny has gone to her new home to be with a widower bunny. That leaves us with just four little (little, they’re all bigger than our neighbours toy dog) scamps who we’ve had for over six years now…they came to us at 8 weeks as two pairs…but that’s another story that was on my previous site…www.curzons-patch.com which has sadly now closed.

 

Still getting back to matters in hand, Grace is now walking or rather running everywhere, feeding herself and the floor and generally being a very bright 18 month old little girl with an unfortunate passion for Peppa Pig…who (Peppa Pig) reminds me and here I must be showing my age of the child in the Clarks shoe ad on TV who says “When I grow up, my mummy said I’m going to be a proper little madam.” I think the word “precocious” springs to mind….and I sometimes wonder if she ever did. 

 

Grace is showing signs of being musical just like her dad, she already plays tunes on her piano and sings along in tune…so I’m going to have to put a padlock on my music cupboard when she gets older and buy her, her very own guitar, piano etc...just leave the bass playing to dad. I suppose an early (pre-birth) grounding in good music doesn’t go a miss as the song goes… “We don’t need no education”……

 

Will try and write more next month but would like to get my novel finished (just hit 10,000.00 words) so I can turn it into a prog-rock concept album…go on you can say it “Dine-Saw”

Updates

Sorry for the lack of updates but my latest project which combines these pages in a trilogy has begun to rule... although there's not much to say other that this are going well!!!!

Sorry there's been no Dad's Diary for a while...just been busy with a new project..... be back soon!!!

Is there every a happy ending

Happily there was, despite loosing such a precious gift, my other half survived and after much more heartache, medical intervention and councelling we went on to have a beautiful daughter who will be 1 in a couple of weeks and has just begin to crawl and walk aided....time to baby proof the house and lock up my instruments....

Having been through what we've been through I can only say that despite being almost middle-aged or nearing 20 depending on how you view your 40's and losing my job so near to the festive season amongst other things you are never to old to have children and enjoy life all over again....Yes, we'll never forget what has happened, all the heartache, pain, suffering etc but as one great philosopher once said..."What can't kill you, makes you stronger"

Gold fish and all that.....