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So all the kids are due back at school. I'll bet all mothers will breath a sigh of relief when they do go back. My great grandson starts school next week for the first time. It doesn't seem two minutes since he was born, but one thing's for sure, he's ready for school, his brain's like a sponge and wants to know everything about everything. Him going to school reminds me of something I wrote about ten years ago;

On visiting my son, I walked with him ...

Really great to be home. Don't get me wrong I loved going to Holland to visit my son and his family, but three weeks is a long time to be away from home. Although it was great to be with my grandchildren in Holland, I missed all my grand children and great grandchildren back home. Of course not to forget my little puppy who was doing cartwheels with excitement when she saw me. It was so good going to my own bed that night; why is it no matter how comfortable a bed is, there's none like your o...

I cannot belive the amount of interest I have had in my book since I started my blog, and it's brought me back together with so many people form my past. So many like-minded people have been interested in the book https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_13/256-3789277-3462169?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+pit+block+by+agnes+kirkwood&sprefix=the+pit+block%2Cstripbooks%2C232" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Pit Block, so it is really good to see that peopl...

ready to go back home to my wee pup and that little house I call home. It's been a great time here with my son and his family, but home is where the heart is, and so when I am finally sitting back in my chair, with a cuppa, I will be relaxed again, no matter that I will miss that "Dutch lot", and I will be inundated with the Donny lot again, I do still get a little time to relax and not feel guilty to hogging the remote!

It takes me back to when I used to to travel back to Scotland, and...

In Holland visiting my son and family. Can't believe how tall the people are here. Even most of the women are six feet.Things are more expensive here, but the folks are so friendly. There's no language barrier either because everyone can talk English, probably because being an international language English gets taught at school. I can't help but notice how flat the country is, enabling cycling easier. Everybody rides bikes here and when you go to town there are bikes parked everywhere. Could...

Just read another Catherine Cookson book from years ago. What a writer. I remember the first time I read one of her books, I couldn't put it down. I'm sure it was her books that inspired me when I was young to want to write and use the place I was born and brought up in as the settings to my books. It's a shame I had to wait until I retired to start.

When I first started writing, I had such great ideas, and my mind seemed to overflow constantly with new, different, obscure, bright and loud ideas, and getting them onto paper or on a computer) is the hardest thing, because as soon as you try to write it all down, it becomes a mixed and blurred, like trying to remember ones dreams when you wake up. So, to start with, it's not the easy flowing stream of words that they become after a while. One of the best bits of my early writing...

Hi all, this is my very first blog!

I was born in a small Scottish mining village in 1943 called Fallin, just outside of Stirling. The village then consisted of blocks of pit houses along the main road, a school, police station, a little corner sweet shop at the gable end of one of the blocks. As I blog regularly, I'll add different interesting places (to me and like-minded folk) to the list that I remember fondly.

What a wonderful upbringing, lots to do, althou...