Naming ceremony reading

Being Small

Sometimes I just hate being small,
When everybody else is tall,
I think the world is most unfair
With me down here and them up there.

It’s awful when a juicy peach
Is in a bowl far out of reach
Or parents have safely put away
The toys with which I want to play.

It’s terrible to have to stretch
For everything you want to fetch
While bigger people help themselves
To things from off the highest shelves.

Perhaps it might be less unfair
If they were kind of stuck up there
And had to wait till I came round
To give them things from off the ground;

But no, they can easily bend,
To fetch and carry, make and mend,
While if I want to reach that cup,
I have no way of bending up!

John Maguire

Wedding reading

From Now We Are Six – A.A. Milne

A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.

Return from Shropshire

Having been nagging the hubby to blog (albeit not publicly visible),  I'm going to try and give it s go myself.  For one reason, this makes it easier to not feel like I'm just nagging then! This may sound a strange concept,  but actually it's a good way to ensure he is charting his health,  so not quite so odd ( hopefully! )

We've just come back from holiday near Ludlow. We had a nice rest and made it to Croft castle (not Corfe as I kept thinking! ).  We were hoping to make quite a few National Trust places but exhaustion and health meant that wasn't to be. We got to spend some lovely relaxation time with a few good friends, which all of us needed! A few glasses of wine through the week,  some lovely food, including cream tea (earl grey for me) in the Ludlow Castle tea rooms. A bit of an entertaining my godson (guideson but that looks odd as a word) thrown in for good measure.  He was teething with his first teeth so his parents were grateful for the rest too! ....We only figured out that the teething was the reason part way through the week.
A lovely week.  Now we're back though and I have managed to acquire a stinking cold! Lemsip fuelled days with the hope of a quick recovery! I'm reading at a wedding on Saturday and being made an official guide-parent on Sunday! All fingers and toes crossed for a reasonable level of health to return by then!!