When the music's too loud and the kids are grown

We enjoyed a long weekend visit from Saturday to Tuesday from Daughter #1 who is a scarcely believable 26 (TWENTY-SIX!) later this month.

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Burning the candle at both ends, even when you're in your 20s, does take it out of you and she arrived, worn out with no voice on Saturday evening, inhaled a chicken balti knocked up by yours truly, watched some TV with The Boss and called it a night.

Of course, as every parent of grown and flown children knows, visits back home are often multi-event occasions and this was no different. Two separate appointments and meeting up with childhood friends to support a half marathon fundraiser for St John's Hospice in memory of their friend who died earlier this year after a road accident in Thailand.