I simply cannot believe that the last blog I wrote on here was three years ago - how time flies - and life itself. I seem to have been on SS forever and then some and have enjoyed every minute of it - from the hints in the forum, to the general chatter, to the new course, to the camaraderie - a lot of you people on here I consider my friends always and forever, I feel I've known you all my life.

A lot happens in between times and the last time I was talking of my lovely granddaughter's upcoming wedding - sadly that is now over with a finale you wouldn't want in your wildest dreams. This man, who appeared to be such a nice caring person, decided about a year after the wedding that he'd conduct a romance online with a lady in Asia - he flew over to Bali several times on the pretext that he was setting up a business with one of his close friends and would send for his wife (my granddaughter) and his boys who were living with her and her mum and dad which is where they were staying. However this wasn't to be and he came back from time to time only to visit for a day or two before flying back to Bali. She was very hurt and puzzled and he kept asking her what she wanted to do - on advice taken from others she turned the tables on him and asked what HE wanted to do and he abruptly said he wanted to end the marriage. She had suspected same but thinking she had found her soulmate, she was devastated.

He took his boys and parked them at his mother's place temporarily before sending them back to their biological mother - this was another blow as they'd been really happy living with my granddaughter and her family and considered them close. This rotten scoundrel then wanted her to lie about when they separated as he'd set up a restaurant business with the new love of his life (incidentally plastered all over social media) and we suspect she's going to have a baby - she refused and also told him he was responsible for the divorce settlement. I doubt anything will come of that.

I pray it all goes smoothly but I doubt it as he's very good at avoiding any confrontation and also at paying for any of his outstanding accounts - fortunately they're all in his name and not in hers. Trouble strikes when you least expect it and we're all very saddened at what has happened to this lovely caring girl.

Life doesn't go smoothly, does it. But it must go on and we have to cope with anything and everything that the universe sends us.