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Flat Land Andy's Goffer

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  1. Flat Land Andy's Goffer
    Well my little man did it! He walked another 15miles today of the Macmillan Way. To be honest I was concerned that his ankle was going to give him problems, but on the contrary. In his normal determined manner he just got on with it and came home and relaxed afterwards!
    The trouble is that I am spending the whole day travelling from home to drop them off at their last point and then driving home again to try and do all of the other things that I help with in the village. For example various fundraising things that need planning and executing for the PTA and the numerous cards that need collecting, sorting and delivering for the local beavers/cubs/scout group. I get a couple of hours at home and then I have to leave again to get to where they need picking up from and then I have to drive home again, so I am trying to do all of our own christmas preparations in the evenings, after work and when little man has gone to bed as well as the things for the village/school.
    We were talking this evening about our memories of christmas when we were children and what our parents did for us. My Mum and Dad were fantastic and my memories are all of fun and my Dad winding my Mum up, her buying a turkey that was to big to fit in the oven and the brussel sprouts always being boiled to a pulp. Even when I was 27 and staying at my parents on Xmas eve, my Dad still came in(as he always did) between 3am and 4am and say "he's been Sarah Darea" are you getting up. I always did and my Dad and I had a special couple of hours together just cuddled up in front of the fire watching TV until my Mum got up and started getting all stressed about the fact that the turkey had only been cooking for 12 hours and it wasn't going to be ready on time! I DO MISS THEM SO MUCH
  2. Flat Land Andy's Goffer
    On Wednesday I delivered the christmas post boxes for the local scout group to 3 local businesses. People pay a donation of 5p per card to have their cards delivered in the village by the cubs and scouts. The only problem with this is that it sometimes feels like it is just me and a couple of other mums doing the actually delivering!
    Anyway I popped into one of the shops today to buy my little man a chocolate bar after a hard day at school practising for his christmas performance,( ha ha) only to be told that the box was full all ready!
    The logistics of sorting and delivering approx 1300 cards during the next two weeks might be daunting to some, but Adam in his indicative fashion cannot wait! When I emptied the box he immediately asked if he could do them there and then. He suggested we could sort them in the car and get them done before it was dark. We compromised by agreeing that we would empty one of the other boxes that night, sort them before we went shopping and delivered them after football tomorrow!
    On Sunday he is walking another 15 miles of the Macmillan Way for Macmillan Cancer Relief and so he cannot deliver on Sunday's which he is gutted about.
  3. Flat Land Andy's Goffer
    This is the first entry in my blog and is going to start with a moan I'm afraid.
    My little man(9yrs old) is walking the Macmillan Way for Macmillan Cancer relief, 290 miles. He has completed 75 miles and you would have thought that he would get encouragement from his nearest & dearest, wouldn't you. But oh no!
    I emailed his Grandad today(the only one he has got I hasten to add, as my dad died from cancer almost a year to the day before he was born), just to confirm that he will be here on christmas morning. My husband is the eldest of his two children and my little man is his only grandchild and the only one he will ever have.
    The last two years we have actually had to chase him up during mid morning of Christmas day and one year actually had to phone around petrol stations to find out where there was one open, because he said he hadn't got enough petrol to get here. This is depsite the fact that he actually lives directly opposite a petrol station and complained that it was a 24 hour petrol station and could not understand why it had closed at 10pm on Christmas Eve. He is a retired CID police officer.
    Well anyway he knows that Adam is walking the Macmillan Way on 27th & 28th Dec, it is his birthday on 29th and is walking again on 30th & 31st. His grandad has said that he cannot be bothered to come over this year(he has no other committments and his other son will be here as he comes every Sunday) and that his uncle should take him over on the 26th or 27th and he will take him out and treat him to something.
    When Adam asks why Grandad's not coming I did not know what to say really other than he can't make it, but I know Adam will ask why as he knows Grandad has no-one else in his life and he knows that he is not going to be able to go over on the 26th and that he is walking on the 27th. That means that he is not going to see his Grandad for christmas or his birthday yet again!
    Why exactly do we bother with people that cannot even show an interest in their own grandchildren. Their grandchild who has endured seeing their mother(me) suffer with cancer, their nanny die of cancer(my mum) and their only anuty(my sister) die of cancer within 16weeks of one another! Sometimes I just want to scream at them and say for goodness sake take an interest, you don't know what youv'e got until its not their anymore!
    Sorry end of moan. Knowing Adam he will take it in his stride and just say "whatever"
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