It's been a while

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 Wow, 7 years since my last post. You'd be forgiven to think I'd forgotten about this blog.

Life is a lot different now. We have a house we call home, we don't live there yet but we will. Eventually. We have a team of carers that help look after the boys and we have another dog.

Main headaches these days are dealing with the Deputy, architects and managing a boot load of appointments. Oh and the knacker van. Shouldn't be a knacker. It's a Mercedes but since we got it it's had a liking of going into limp whenever it feels like it. It's spent a lot of time with the local dealer and they haven't been able to fix t. So yes, it's time to start thinking about a new van. Again.

I used to talk about photography on here now and then. That's changed a bit for me. I now volunteer at a local place where I run a weekly photography group for neurodivergent adults and adults with additional needs. Which is great and helps me feel like I'm part of something. 

I'll save some stuff for future posts, I'm not putting 7 years of updates in this one. So here's a photo I took recently of some dying flower in the kitchen.



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