Dad has arrived!

Just looking back and it's over 3 weeks since my last post!! So much for thinking I was going to do this regularly!  
15th October was D day (Dad day) and he's now in my house with me.  Here he is on his exercise bike in the shed (excuse the mess)  -   88 and still keeping fit!!!
We had a bit of a family party to welcome him - catering by St Michael - I wasn't organised enough to cook properly.  All 10 of us squeezed around the table.  I'm in the market for more chairs and just before he arrived I found a lovely bentwood chair at a vintage fair at Bardsea.


  
Isn't the pattern on the seat fabulous?  It reminds me of the long gone Italian Ice cream parlour I used to go to with Mum when I was little....... 
Not keen on matching sets of chairs 

And at the same vintage fair I also couldn't resist this refurbished sewing box.  The interior is original and beautiful.  At the moment it seems to be full of dolls (thank-you grandchild number 2)   but soon I'll get organised and put my quilting in it.

Hoping I can get to the next Bardsea Fair in November -  need more chairs.........

Dad - the Arctic Star

This is Dad! or Grandad Stan to my daughters and grandchildren.  He's 88 and coming to live with me very soon and I can't wait.  Lots of people have said how difficult it will be - but I just don't believe them, he's perennially cheerful!  Among other things  I need to get back to cooking proper meals and Dad being here will make me do it!  

This picture was taken a couple of months ago when he got he Arctic Star, 12 crossings on the North Atlantic convoys !  We never heard him talk much about the war until he got his medal and then we were amazed at what he'd done!

We've already booked for a December trip to Center Parcs with the kids - he hasn't had a holiday for a while because he's been looking after his other half.  He's looking forward to getting in the pool.  Hope I'm like him when I'm 88, hope I get to 88 ........