As some of you may know I am webmaster at www.blythallweatherlifeboat.com. I have just set up a text donate service with Vodaphone's "Justgiving," service.

If you send a text to 70070 quote BAWL12 in the message and the amount, say £1 - you will help us save lives at sea,

So the scenario is your coming in to land at Newcastle airport, the plane plunges into the sea. What do you do?

Well if you've survived - dont worry, the coastguard would've...

I've just typed up a blog post, that upon re-reading was too full of sad detail, and morose reflection to actually post up.

Suffice it to say, very dear friends of ours lost their unborn baby at 8 months. We're all very, very devastated for them, and so very sad.

Had to get it out somewhere.

Makes me look at my two with much more patience. I really am lucky to have such lovely children - and two of them - even if after day 2 of half term has driven...

I was just rereading the first entry in these family matters blogs and something has occurred to me. The whole reason I started writing them was to address an issue that I had been avoiding, but that led me to start talking about the family, and the more I talked the more I was able to push that initial subject further away.

The family history is very interesting, especially the older stuff, and I will write one last one to tie everything together but the main reason I started this...

I have struggled to write this next part of my blog for a couple of days now and I am not sure why, perhaps it is simply because I have reached the part where I am alive and can draw on my own memories so there is much more I could write.

In the end I have decided that the best place to start is with my grandfather. If you have been following my other blogs you will know that both my paternal grandparents had died before I was born, but my mother’s mother had remarried. There might...

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