Splosh
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Splosh
And a little erosion
Helped on
By little hands
Joy is free
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A Spring of Dreams – Splosh
Beach
Time and Tide
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Albatross hovers
High over surf scattered sand
All will pass in time
In response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #113 Beach&Time
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Poem a day challenge #358 (Splosh)
Splosh
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Splosh
And a little erosion
Helped on
By little hands
Joy is free
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Poem a day challenge #355 (Watcher)
Watcher
By Scott Bailey © 2014
With my lens
Capture the beach
Only to find
A watcher
Staring back
What does it see
The watcher from the sea
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Poem a day challenge #348 (Broken Teeth)
Broken Teeth
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Like broken teeth
Unmaintained
No longer useful
Yet
Somehow
Pleasing to the eye
Leading us
To who knows where
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Updates
So I haven’t blogged much beyond the poem a day. It has been a bust couple of weeks. Partly because of work, partly because we have been on holiday so have been giving the computer a rest.
So here is a quick précis of the past few weeks – more for my own reference really.
It started with a visit from the Social Worker about a possible match. This was a time of mixed emotions. The situation is about as ideal as you could get – as far as these situations go. The child in question has been in care since birth – so has never suffered any abuse or anything – but has had several moves already.
The issue with this case is concerns over the mothers ability to look after him. And that is because of the horrendous life she has had.
I felt something I hadn’t really expected to feel – guilt about the idea of taking her child away from her.
Yet if we don’t someone else will and if they didn’t then the child would have a terrible life itself.
Much to think about.
Anyway it may all come to nothing. This is early matching and other couples are also under consideration. There’s a lot of hurdles to go yet.
In other news. We have been popping about seeing friends and family. Alexander had two birthday parties to attend. One was a superhero theme and Alexander was one of several Supermen to go. The other was a lovely day at the beach. We also saw two sets of his God Parents. We went to Herne Fun Day and Herne Bay and played in the arcades. We also went to Howlett’s Zoo and to Legoland, Alexander loved this despite the hour-long queues for five-minute rides.
We took Alexander on a nature walk around the village.
We also had our final meeting with the social worker so are now just waiting our report – and then to panel! And onto matching.
On the adoption front we also made good progress on sorting out the rooms. Alexander’s room is refreshed and he now has his big bed set up – with dinosaur duvet! The spare room is 99% ready too. Just need to convert Alexander’s old cot bed back to a cot.
And finally – if you hadn’t noticed – I self published my book! Yay!
So busy busy times.
Poem a day challenge #89 (Winter)
Been busy with DIY today and now my back is aching bad. So this is one I prepared previously – but new on here.
Winter
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Winter’s wind blows fierce
through silk and wood it does pierce
a lonely howling
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Poem a day challenge #88 (Evening Beach)
Evening Beach
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Splashing on the beach
Throwing pebbles in the surf
With red sun sinking
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Baby Memorial Garden, Car Trouble and Adoption Homework
Holiday has started.
Not entirely well.
So much for relaxing. Started with a quick trip to the garage as my wheel is making all sorts of noises. (I am thinking now the bearings are going). The garage (the second I have taken it to in as many days) could find nothing wrong. They could however finally diagnose the check engine light – which it turns out could be the turbo going. Great! To fix that is nearly half as much as I paid for the car!
We tried to put that to the back of our minds and took Alexander to Whitstable castle as we had promised him. He had a great time there and at the beach throwing stones.
We came home to try to relax, this was not helped by the fact that our burglar alarm kept going off all by itself for no reason at random times during the night. It never rains…
Sunday. After a slow time getting up as we were tired out from kept being woken up! We went to Ashford. Today was the official opening of the SANDS baby memorial garden. Lucas has a stone there.
We picked up my Aunty Kath on the way. Alexander’s first words were – “She looks nice!” Compliments from a four-year-old. We were glad she could come as she was there for us on the night Lucas died.
We met my Mum and Dad at the garden.
This was a lovely service with readings, doves being released and balloons being let off. (Environmentally friendly ones I understand)
It was all very emotional and hit Rachel harder than she expected. There were tears and Alexander came to the rescue with a cuddle. (after everyone else had gone he also got very tearful as he said his own goodbyes)
Alexander missed most of the service though as he was off with a little girl called Charlotte that he befriended. They were inseparable all afternoon – I even caught them whispering about marriage!
We came home and had a relaxed tea.
After getting a tired Alexander to bed, I spent the rest of the evening working on our adoption homework – hence the late hour of this post 1am!
Tonight was filling out forms about our relationship, family upbringing and how we deal with children.
So another up and down weekend but hey – no work tomorrow!
And Andy Murray won Wimbledon!
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