Maria? I haven't seen her.

Holy smokes! Life has a wonderful way of surprising you, doesn’t it?

There I am beavering away as another mindless, clueless cog in the corporate machine when up pops a message from a name I don’t recognise.

Normally, with anything like that, I assume it’s spam or a porn bot (or is that the same thing?) and would delete it, but I’m glad that I actually took the time to read the lovely message from someone I have had no contact with for around 35 years!

She is the daughter of some lovely neighbours who, suffice it to say, helped my mum out when she needed it the most back in the day. It’s been lovely swapping a few messages with her this afternoon as we catch up on each other’s lives.

In other news, in what I am sure will be the latest 5 minute fad for The Eldest, I recently bought her a “penny board”, which she is pictured here trying to get to grips with in the limited space in the backyard. She seems delighted with it and met up with some friends earlier at a path near the river with some nice smooth tarmac.

The temptation to purchase a deck myself and sail past busting some gnarly moves and grinding a ……..no, I have no idea what I’m talking about.

Anyway, I’ve had a stupid smile on my face this afternoon and that was before The Youngest started taking great delight in bossing Alexa into playing songs from Hamilton. 

Again.