Yes, seemingly, everybody's on the move just at the moment, and on some kind of so-called 'trip' or other! And if you want to be 'on trend', you'd better get up off your backside and join the throng - do it now!!!!
It's all over this morning's papers! Everybody's going somewhere, either just locally or even internationally! Take a look at your copy of Onion News, if you want 'chapter and verse' !!!!!!
me and my wife Lois, pictured today on our sofa in Liphook, Hampshire
And this current mania for 'moving about' is even affecting our own family this week, would you believe!
Our daughter Alison (50) and her long-term husband Edward, our son-in-law, are today travelling 300 miles from their home in Churt, Surrey, all the way up to Durham, near the Scottish border, to spend a few days with their elder daughter Josie (19), who's just about to finish the first year of her maths degree course.
Alison and Edward are going to be bringing home all Josie's bulky belongings for the summer vacation. Josie herself is going to be staying a few more days up north, but she'll be able to bring her remaining possessions herself in a suitcase, so that's all good!
(above) the route that proud parents Alison and Edward are taking today
to spend a few days with elder daughter Josie (19), before bringing home
the bulk of her possessions for the summer vacation, and (below) flashback
to September 2025, when Josie first arrived at Durham for her maths course
Yes, today Lois and I are going to be having to 'get off our backsides' (!) and give those two young rascals (!) Rosalind and Isaac a spot of lunch today here at our lovely Liphook home after their tennis lessons, and drive them back home to Churt. And tomorrow we'll be picking them up at Churt and taking them into nearby shopping mecca Haslemere - Isaac has a rehearsal for the next music-and-dramatic arts production of "Nine To Five - the Musical", and Rosalind has a hair appointment with her stylist at Eden's, so it's going to be 'all go' for Lois and me for the next couple of days - no question about that!!!!
What madness !!!! And for Lois and me, it's going to be a busy couple of days, that's for sure!
(above, left) the family home at Churt, Surrey and (above, right) my wife Lois
with those two rascals our grandchildren Isaac (15) and Rosalind (17);
and (below, left) 9-to-5 The Musical, for which Isaac will be rehearsing tomorrow
and (below, right) the Eden Hair Salon, where Rosalind has an appointment
[Is that all you two 'noggins' have done today, Colin, made lunch for your grandchildren and taken them back home to Churt? - Ed]
Absolutely not, seeing as how you're asking!
We've actually been 'rushed off our feet' preparing for the visit later this month of our other daughter Sarah, with husband Francis and their 12-year-old twin daughters Lily and Jessica, who'll be 'jetting in' from Perth, Australia to spend 3 weeks with us, so, as far as Lois and I are concerned, it's "no peace for the wicked" yet again haha!!!!
So today, in anticipation of their arrival in 11 days' time, there's me finishing off mowing the lawn while also somehow finding time to fit an extra bed into our so-called "home office", not to mention us planning day trips for our little Australian family to mighty London, the hub of the British Commonwealth, of which Australia is just one part, which is mad too!!!
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flashback to July 2025: my wife Lois, with our daughter Sarah
Sarah's husband Francis and their 12-year-old twin daughters
Lily and Jessica on their last trip to the UK
And Lois and I are having to do all this preparation work today, despite the sudden current heatwave, with temperatures of 80 degrees F (27C) which is crazy !!!! I've even decided to break out my stylish shorts [not shown], would you believe!!!!
(above, left) I get our lawnmower out to finish off mowing our lawn, and (above, right)
me showcasing the extra folding bed we've somehow managed to squeeze into our 'office';
(below, left) us on the sofa working out some day-trips for our little Australian family
to do when they're with us, and (below, right) me showcasing the torrid
temperatures we're working under - what madness!!!
Just look at the predicted high temperatures for today - see below! And next week the highs even reach 83F (28C) at one point, according to my phone, which is totally mad!
And, as if to underline our country's craziness, if that were even needed (!), Lois and I relax this evening watching "The Phantom of the Open", the true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the middle-aged shipyard crane-operator from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, who somehow managed to be accepted as a contender in the 1976 British Open Golf Tournament, despite never having played a round of golf in his life.
What a madness it all was, wasn't it !!!!
In this scene, shipyard worker Maurice, played by Mark Rylance, is working on his application form for entry to the British Open, with the help of his long-suffering wife Jean (Sally Hawkins). Maurice is 'poncing about' trying on his new 'golfing hat' and looking at himself in the mirror, while Jean is trying to get him to concentrate on the British Open entry application form she's filling in for him.
In the end, the couple decide to put Maurice down on the form as a "professional", which means
they don't have to list his 'handicap', or 'handicaps'. And this decision by the couple was crucial in getting novice Maurice accepted as a competitor, because the administrators didn't think to check his credentials.
Maurice goes on to take part in the tournament, scoring a record score of 121 for the 18 holes, and, after the tournament, a reporter from The Sun newspaper visits the family home in Barrow to ask for Maurice's wife Jean's reactions.
Oops!!!!
Need I say more!!!!
[No! - Ed]
[Just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!!
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