Parenting

When I turned 41 it appeared that my future was set in stone:- single, unhappy and overweight.. now I'm 46, married and happy as a pig in you-know-what!! my lovely wife and our BEAUTIFUL daughter bring me untold joy & serenity.

I realise that all sounds incredibly hokey but its true

Free at last (till a week on Monday anyway)..

After an exceedingly stressful morning/ early afternoon yours truly is able to sit down & gather what wits remain..... till the birth of our georgous little girl 18 months ago I still found it hard to believe that an alcohol-free weekend would be a regular occurance (despite my wife saying I was free to go out whenever I wanted too) but, in all honesty, the very thought of beer now just turns my stomach! one side effect of this is a loss of weight and I am now exactly 13st 7lb: this is the lightest I've EVER been (at my heaviest I was close on 17 stone).

Am I the only one who thinks that the national census is a complete waste of money? does it serve any real purpose?? apart from make some rich American firm richer... what with that and the fact that an even richer American religious organisation makes money from holding OUR genealogy records which means WE have to go to THEIR temples to view them!!