We have six gorgeous grandchildren, four boys & two girls & at the moment Lydia is the only one living in the UK.
We haven’t seen her since the middle of February & it’s sad we can’t give her a big hug on her birthday.
She is busy working for the NHS in Lancaster as a Speech Therapist & filling in where needed in these hard times.
We have had some great times here in the UK but also in NZ, Singapore, Rome & New York....will we ever travel again I wonder?
Happy birthday dear Lydia, hope you’ve had a lovely day.
Three good things:
1. Grandchildren near & far, always in our thoughts.
2. Back on my walking today, almost five miles.
3. Homemade soup for lunch.
She's a beautiful lass :) Happy birthday, Lydia. These things are hard in lockdown - my darling Dad recently turned 90, we had a wedding anniversary and other important dates coming up. Tough not to see family on your special days. But we will again. I remain grateful for photographs and phones and video calls. Such a privilege in this modern age to at least have something.
Bless you on your birthday, young Lydia! Hope it brings you plenty to make you smile.
Grattis på födelsedagen! Awww hard not being able to see family in person. I am "meeting" my friends and family online nearly every day. Every Thursday we have a quiz where we all meet up and play. We have been taking it in turns to be the Quiz host.
Happy Birthday, Lydia!
It's tough, Pat, not to see and hug her on this special day.
The last time we've seen our children and grandchildren was at the end of January, son-in-law's birthday.
@susiemc Thank you Sue....we think she’s lovely too! @casablanca Yes specially hard when the one you want to hug is elderly...they miss hugs too... Lydia will thank you for your good wishes! @farmreporter It’s much easier now walking my usual route...thought I might struggle today as I’m out of practice a bit but found it fine! Thank you Wendy! @huvesaker Lydias family are loving online quizzes, they do them via Scotland, Japan, Canada & England...technology is wonderful thing! @louannwarren Lovely inside & out Lou Ann & such a hard worker! Thank you! @gijsje it’s a long time isn’t it? Funnily we get used to not seeing our NZ & Japan grandchildren but Lydia has always been around , even her Uni time wasn’t that far away & she came home regularly so it’s strange. @carolmw Thank you Carol, she has just messaged me & said she had a lovely day.
Happy birthday Lydia.. Hopefully you get to have a catch up soon.. Im looking forward to tbe weekend when we are allowed to see 'our other bubble family'..
Happy Birthday Lydia. You've had such fun together over the years and hope we will all be able to hug and welcome each other soon!!
Not much chance for the overseas people this year!! Aren't you lucky having your trip before this all kicked in for real!! xxxx
@sarah19 Yes aren’t we just Sallie...we say that all the time! You will feel it too, I hope it’s not too long before you are able to see Laura & Ian in their new house...the family in China & Susannah in Netherlands I think! @dide Yes good job we have been practising for all these years before hand! @beryl Thanks Beryl....we miss them all but strange not to see Lydia today.
Happy birthday Lydia. It's Matthews our son's birthday today too.very strange not being together ,but he ordered a curry.reboxed some for us and left that and cake for us..then we whattsapped..xx
Happy Birthday Lydia I hope you had a lovely day even in lockdown.
David and I were always used to being apart on special days during our RAF years. We were married 4 years before we were together on our wedding anniversary and also missed a number of birthday celebrations on the actual days. We caught up with them when he was home again though.
it is a lovely montage pat .
not being able to hug and see our family is so difficult.
as for air travel, i don't think it is going to be safe to do so until we have a vaccine
Everyone seems to have had such wide experiences! This particular event is a new one in our generations but I daresay during the Plague and such not, there were big restrictions!
Happy birthday to a beautiful young lady. I'm sure you are very proud of her. Our passports are stowed away and we don't know when we can get them out again but we are willing to.
I agree with you Pat, it's very sad that we can't hug our grandchilren. One day we will.
Bless you on your birthday, young Lydia! Hope it brings you plenty to make you smile.
Walking 5 miles - that is well done!
It's tough, Pat, not to see and hug her on this special day.
The last time we've seen our children and grandchildren was at the end of January, son-in-law's birthday.
@casablanca Yes specially hard when the one you want to hug is elderly...they miss hugs too... Lydia will thank you for your good wishes!
@farmreporter It’s much easier now walking my usual route...thought I might struggle today as I’m out of practice a bit but found it fine! Thank you Wendy!
@huvesaker Lydias family are loving online quizzes, they do them via Scotland, Japan, Canada & England...technology is wonderful thing!
@louannwarren Lovely inside & out Lou Ann & such a hard worker! Thank you!
@gijsje it’s a long time isn’t it? Funnily we get used to not seeing our NZ & Japan grandchildren but Lydia has always been around , even her Uni time wasn’t that far away & she came home regularly so it’s strange.
@carolmw Thank you Carol, she has just messaged me & said she had a lovely day.
Not much chance for the overseas people this year!! Aren't you lucky having your trip before this all kicked in for real!! xxxx
@dide Yes good job we have been practising for all these years before hand!
@beryl Thanks Beryl....we miss them all but strange not to see Lydia today.
David and I were always used to being apart on special days during our RAF years. We were married 4 years before we were together on our wedding anniversary and also missed a number of birthday celebrations on the actual days. We caught up with them when he was home again though.
not being able to hug and see our family is so difficult.
as for air travel, i don't think it is going to be safe to do so until we have a vaccine