Zoë 3 Today

Today we celebrate the birth of the last Dryden child of our marital union – Zoë Anya-Cheryse Dryden. As a deep kinda guy, I attach great significance to the lives of each of my daughters.  Their births hold a lot of importance for me due to contextual factors such as the state of my relationship […]

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Dryden Update – March 2013

This is the first chance I’ve had to post my gratitude to God for February. Thank you God for February. It’s a sneeze of a month as you know.  One minute it’s the first of February, you sneeze and the month is over.  Yet it is a month.  A month in which I finish the […]

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Thank You WordPress

Just a quick blog entry to say thanks to the platform that has hosted my blogs for the last four years. WordPress had the good grace to remind me of the anniversary and how apparently it was four years ago when I moved over from Blogger to WP. I remember at the time making the […]

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That Was – This Is

I have not made a big deal of new years since 1999.  No I wasn’t caught up in the millennium hype at the time.  I was with good friends who were going out for to a service, it was the first time I’d ever been, so I went.  If anything that experience underlined just what […]

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Deborah at Eight

This is Deborah Dryden.  This is the firstborn offspring of the marital union of Authrine Dryden and myself.  Today she celebrates her 8th birthday. Of course 8 is not one of the big birthdays.  1 is a big one. 3 is a big one. 5 is a big one, 7 is a big one, 10 […]

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Getting Used To The Change

Missed me? Yeah I missed you too. Since the move, I’ve not had a proper net access for online for me laptop where I prefer blogging, so I’ve had to endure an enforced leave of absence of regular blogging.  This entry is being composed from my brother’s crib in Milton Keynes.  By the way speaking […]

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Thank You God For Bletchley

Today marks the end of another eventful chapter in the life and times of Christopher Dryden and the Dryden Family. This post has been written a few hours in advance. By this time we should be well on the way to completing the packing of the removal van and our own vehicle as we close […]

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Reaching Half-Way

No one knows how long they will live. The invincibility of youth is only pierced by the occasional reminders of mortality when the peers are cut off in their prime.  Other than that it is a time for planning and achieving and being everything great without a hint that will ever end. But it will […]

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