Yes, Friends, have YOU got your "Spring 2026" designer wardrobe "clobber"? Well, there's good news from Paris today - you may not need to bother, which is a relief!!!
Onion News has more....
And reading the Onion story this morning, here in semi-idyllic Liphook, Hampshire brings a look of weirdly grim determination to the faces of me and my wife Lois, to put it mildly!
me and my wife Lois - a recent picture
And in deference to Paris, for our first truly "springtime walk" of the new season, which will be over Old Man Lowsley's Farm, Lois and I have elected to wear the same clothes we wore this time last year (and the year before that, if we're honest!!!). [What about 2023 etc etc ? - Ed]
Notwithstanding all that (!), there's an unmistakeable "spring in our step" today - no pun intended!!! - because for one morning, at least, it's not raining here in Liphook, and signs of spring are everywhere, with the birds (and even some local residents, no names no packdrill!) practising their mating calls, and a mild touch of colour returning both to cheeks and to woodlands and garden, would you believe!!!
[Beautifully written paragraph, Colin, if you don't mind my saying so! - Ed]
[Thanks! - Colin]
We even see some daffodils cautiously popping into flower, and catkin-type things looking more colourful, into the bargain, not just on the farm but even with crocuses and snowdrops etc appearing in our own dear back garden, would you believe!
[Good summary, Colin! - Ed]
[Thanks! - Colin]
a shrub in our garden we don't know the name of, plus some crocuses, which is nice!
"But surely, Colin, it must be more than a few scraggy flowers that's putting such a spring in yours and Lois's step today?", I hear you cry!
And you're right to make that point, too, because Lois and I get some really good news today - and remember, you saw it here first!!!!
Yes, we're going to be a mummy and daddy again (!!!!), which is a surprise, given that we're both "knocking on 80" and, later this year, we'll be celebrating our new "Premium Old Codger" status, with various automatic privileges on super-low admission prices to museums and Saga "Old Codger" Tours and Cruises etc etc haha!!!!
a typical pair of "old codgers", delighted by news of some
new, very favourable, discounts
It's quite a surprise too, because, after Lois gave birth to our second daughter Sarah in 1977, we thought that we'd better quit, while we were ahead!!!
flashback to 1977: us, with daughters Alison (2) and new-born Sarah:
- happy days!!!!
And now, here we are in 2026, nearly 50 years later, seeing if we can find our old guides to parenting etc, and our "Dr Spock" paperbacks etc etc! It's crazy!!!
.webp)
one of the ancient parenting guides we brought our two daughters
up on, way back in the 1970's, would you believe !!!!
As it happens, we can't find our old books on parenting, but no matter - we probably won't need them for the 2 weeks in June that we'll be "parenting" our 15-year-old grandson Isaac, so fingers crossed !!!!!
Isaac is more likely to be "parenting" us, rather than the other way about - luckily he's more than capable of that job, impossible though it may seem to outsiders !!!!!
flashback to last month: (left to right) our son-in-law Edward, Isaac (15), Josie (19)
Rosalind (17) and our daughter Alison, on a skiing trip to northern Sweden
Yes, you've guessed it! We've been asked to be "mummy and daddy" to Isaac for strictly temporary, practical reasons. Isaac's parents - our daughter Alison and husband Edward - have been told that they must leave their temporary rental home at the end of May, when their lease is up and their landlords have decided to put the house on the market.
This is happening at a super-inconvenient time for the family - our granddaughter Rosalind (17) will be taking her A-Levels, and Isaac (15) will be taking his GCSEs, which is super-annoying. And the family won't be able to move back into their own proper home until a month or two later, because it's still being extensively refurbished. How annoying for them is that?!
And it kind of makes sense for Isaac to be staying here with Lois and me for those 2 weeks, because his school is just around the corner from us here in Liphook, so Bob's your uncle on that one.
flashback to October: our grandson Isaac (15), just finished school
for the day, with his mum, our daughter Alison, who's come to pick him up
See? Job done!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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