Me: “Hey Vic: TGIF!!!”

Vic: “Haaaa?”

Me: “TGIF!!”

Vic: “Errmm..”

Me: “C’mon, Vic: T-G-I-F. Thank God It’s…”

Vic: “Weekend?”

Up until now, yours truly was this family’s (self-) appointed court photographer.

There were various reasons for this of course: sheer brilliance, immaculate taste, an eye for details and the assurance that I, myself, would never appear on any photos.

And now DBW has decided to make an appearance on the art scene. Using only a Sony TX1, she managed to produce the following pics during her recent trip to London:

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Methinks it’s time to buy a VERY large hat!!

It’s in times like these, when your soul-mate is in London, taking care of your eldest’s morale; when your youngest is at her boyfriend’s, taking care of HIS morale, when your alone at home, within the usual surroundings, the same walls, the same pics on the wall, smiling towards you as usual.

It’s in times like this when you realise what you have, what you have achieved, what dreams came true: you’ve brought up two healthy, beautiful, conscientious. drug-free daughters. You’ve met your Love and, 21 years later, still fall in-love with her each and every day, through thick and thin. And you miss them all like crazy.

You gave me these two little things although you physiologically shouldn’t have been able to do so.

I don’t think you will ever know how much I Love you!

Happy Valentine’s Day, My Love!

Received a mail from Easyjet today:

Dear Mr Brighty,

Thank you for contacting us.

I would like to sincerely apologize for the long delay in responding to your e-mail. As we are receiving high volume of e-mails because of the disruption, therefore we are unable to answer your queries on time. However, I can assure you that this is not of our usual standard.

I would also like to sincerely apologise for the inconvenience that the disruption to your flight may have caused you.

I can confirm that a payment of CHF ###, as refund of your cancelled flight and , has already been processed to the original method of payment. This will be made to the credit card used in your original booking within 5-10 working days.

I am happy to confirm a refund of £### to cover the cost of your hotel accommodation. This will be returned to the card used to make your easyJet reservation within 15-20 working days due to heavy backlog because of weather disruptions.

There IS hope after all!

And now let’s see what happens to our second claim…

I wish I would have known that you can visit the Transport for London web site and check out service disruptions BEFORE I booked a hotel on the Jubilee line…which was closed this weekend.

Sarah wishes she would have known that there is NO WAY you will get anyway near a London pub (after 17:00) before you are officially 18.

Life sucks..