Lifes rich tapestry
I went a wandering yesterday on the internet..Bebo to be precise, this is where all the young cool dudes hang out apparently. Laura insisted I get my page when she was a student in Warrington, another way of keeping in touch..Anyway the beauty of this was, I typed Royal Marines in Iraq and came across some Bebo pages of lads actually deployed out there with Patrick at the moment. I copied some photos (as you can do that with Bebo) it was so good to see Pat in pictures working alongside his colleuges, they all look so fresh faced and very much together.
Look what I found, I had to pinch myself and tell myself that was the same young man who left some 3 months ago. He looks totally different in his combats and looks so fit and well. The second one was taken as they just before they went out on boat patrol. Cant wait to see him home!!
Having enjoyed my wander I then went shopping for Alans present, it was his birthday yesterday. We had planned to go out and eat, however the honeymooners who had arrived back from Mexico the other day called round with his present just as we were about to leave. Lorraine and Mark also had the photographers website for veiwing the pictures of the wedding with them, so needless to say we enjoyed looking through the album. They all turned out really well.
I had picked up my mail in between all this and I have finally been given a date for the first hearing which will take place on July 19th. I will be expected to go to this, which is a moment I have been dreading if Im honest.
Legal aid refused to even consider his appeal apparently and I was saddened to read this in his letter from his solicitor ‘ We are given to understand that our client has agreed to fund the rent and expenses of the parties child in London during the forthcoming year which will have a cost of approximately £ 20,ooo. Incredible given that Simona is funded and merely required a little extra support so she would manage without having to work part time. This is more than my annual wage, is this man for real!!! or is this merely what I would call a Bush blunder.
There will be more of this where this came from without a doubt and having felt stuck for so long, not wanting to look back, but unsure of the future and if it were all worth fighting for at times, I got a boost from the final image I looked at last night on Time and a Word ( thanks Stewart).
As soon as I saw it I calmed and grounded, thoughts of the 19th of July entered my head and I realised this is a bridge, one I dread in some ways, yet waited so long for in other ways..It came as a wonderful image to symobize the journey I must make, and if I could pick the bridge it would be one as magnificant, beautiful and sturdy as the one I saw last night… FORCA
Well how wrong can I be!!!! When my daughter laura decided to study film and television production at university I have to admit my first thoughts were what is she studying that for…throughout her studies which she thoroughly enjoyed I silently thought Im pleased she is having a good time and doing so well BUT SHE WILL NEVER GET A JOB in this…far too short sighted, wasnt thinking outside Scotland I have to admit.
