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SaveEveryStep's Blog – February 2012 Archive (9)

Homage to Grandparents (Life's a Journey Series, Week 8)

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.

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A moment this week to pay homage to those special 'extra' parents who mark our lives so…

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 28, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

A face made for kissing

I just wanted to take a moment to wallow in the unique feeling of Mother Love.

You know that moment when a face is presented to you, full of concentration and babbling intensity, but you simply aren't listening because you are overwhelmed with the…

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 23, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments

The Song You Snogged Your Hand To (Life's a Journey, week 7)

Last week we celebrated some of your first memories of Movies. This week we are turning our attentions to music. Specifically, the music of your youth which moved you. We are talking about that time when boyfriends were a thing of the future, and the only things you had to love were your teddy and your hormones. Join in with your own Post, or just chat with us, below.…

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 21, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Letters Home, WWII; Letter 2, 31 Dec 1943.

A bit of background

I have been working up to writing this long series of transcribed letters for some time. It is to be an emotional journey, revisiting these stories once again. I hope you will enjoy them, and think of your family as you read.

Joseph Henry Thompson was born in June 1925. He was my Uncle, though I never knew…

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 16, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Life's a Journey series. Week 6: First Movie Memories

Welcome back to the "Life's a Journey" series, where we revisit some of life's little moments worth remembering.

Last week we romped through your Teenage Crushes. Ouch. Embarrassing...... This week I'd like you…

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 15, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Fashion Fail

Dear Reader,

I'll keep it mercifully short.

I was young.

I made three classic errors on these fronts:-

1. Hair.

2. Mirror.

3. Boyfriend in…

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 15, 2012 at 11:37am — No Comments

Life's a Journey series. Week 5: Teenage Crushes

Look, if I'm going to be totally honest with you about this, then there were more than three.

But in case anyone I actually knew in 1978 is tuning in (unlikely, since no one who knows me would imagine there to be any items of remote interest in my past …

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 7, 2012 at 7:03am — No Comments

Letters home, WWII. Letter 1 - 29 December 1943

Joseph Henry Thompson was born in June 1925. He was my Uncle, though I never knew him. The eldest of 4 children, and brother of…

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Added by SaveEveryStep on February 3, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

Millennium baby reaches his twelfth year

My Millennium baby.

What a ruddy stupid time to be pregnant. Whilst everyone else in the entire Universe was out partying to the event of a lifetime which only comes around every 26 generations or so, I was 8 months pregnant, watching the fireworks from my bedroom window, in my over-sized pyjamas (since I was indeed, oversized).

SaveEveryStep's Blog – February 2012 Archive (9)

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.

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