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With the grandkids due to visit us again at the weekend, my mind naturally wanders back to Easter, when they were with us last. Easter! Scho...

People talk about a ‘one-month anniversary’, don’t they? Unfortunately, my ingrained pedantry rebels at that expression, since the whole poi...

Hammocks are fun, says Matilda Since the grandkids are with us again, with their parents in tow, it struck me that I’d better get a move on ...

Granddad’s glasses! What a joy for Elliott February saw me back in Hoyo de Manzanares, visiting the grandkids in their home. It was carnival...

How sad, I used to feel, that old people woke up so early. What a shame, I used to tell myself, that they couldn’t sleep in as I did, till 9...

Having failed to inform myself on what to expect, the first time I visited Stormont, the home of Northern Ireland’s parliament, I was shocke...

Christmas is about kids. That’s a commonplace. In our case, that means grandkids.  In our home, Christmas was for Matilda and Elliott Not th...