Tag Archives: family
Why breakfast is so important for your health
Porridge for breakfast is a great start to the day
Grabbing breakfast on the go, or missing it completely in the mad morning rush, is a common feature of today’s hectic lifestyles. After all, why waste precious time sitting down to a good healthy meal, when you can just munch on a breakfast bar on the way to work?
“My mother loved children. She didn’t care how many she had as long as we were all healthy”
Reunion for descendants of Holt Williamson family of 19
Williamson family reunion. Picture: Ian Burt
Sabah Meddings Monday, September 8, 2014
Their descendants are now scattered across the world, but the 19 children of Maud and Albert Williamson were all brought up in a little two bedroom cottage off Letheringsett Hill, in Holt
A lot of children in one house
Raising more than a dozen children in one house took a lot of organisation, and Joyce Milce said she remembered her brothers sleeping top-to-tail, six in one bed.
The torment of trying to be a good granny AND a dutiful daughter
Top author Rosie Staal says women like her are in despair
- 92-year-old mother Jean is beset by Alzheimer’s, breast cancer, hearing loss and poor sight
- Rosie longs to spend more time with grandsons Joe, 5 and Zach, 3, and her two-year-old granddaughter Poppy
- Women over 60 make up nearly a third of all hospital admissions for anxiety – juggling caring for elderly parents, grandchildren and ageing or ill partners
- Rosie worries she is also neglecting her husband David
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On the train heading home to Dorset from London last week, I leaned my head against the cold window, closed my eyes and savoured a rare moment to draw breath.
After spending three days with my grandsons Joe, five, and Zach, three, I could still hear their joyful voices in my ears and feel their trusting little hands in mine.
Turning my back as they wave goodbye haunts me after every visit, causing a physical jolt to my heart.
