Sweet Pea

"Sweet pea, my sweet pea
You're the one to get my heart a-jumpin'
Light of love all around your
Being to see


The future, it's looking at ya
It only exists because you're alive
So close your eyes and smile
Your smiles of sweet dreams


Fill them with love again
Sweet pea
Fill them with joy again


Each pace I take and you know why
I write for you and I to try
To take the things that lie around
And turn them into dreams so swift, so proud


It's on a time again
And it's mine again


Sweet thing, loving you is easy
Goodbye sadness when I'm around you
Giving me something I can feel
Down in my bones


Ah, sometimes, maybe just sometimes
Look back on these times and smile
And have the grace to know
What you have seen


Fill them with love again
Sweet pea
Fill me with hope again
My sweet pea


Recollected thoughts and songs
Emblems of forgotten words
Remnants of a time so clear
Still rings fresh and true when the wind is here


It's on a time again
And it's mine again


Sweet pea, my sweet pea
Heaven knows I got a thing about ya
You're the girl to get my heart
Start jumpin' again


Ah, sometimes, baby, just sometimes
Look back on these times and smile
And have the grace to know
What you have seen


How it should be, my sweet pea?
Only God knows what I feel about ya
You're the girl to get my heart
Start pumpin' around


The future if we're lookin' at ya
It only exists because you're alive
So close your eyes and smile
Your smiles of sweet dreams


Fill them with love again
Sweet pea
Fill them with joy again
Yes, sweet thing


Fill them with hope again
My sweet pea"

Paul Weller ~ My Sweet Pea 

This seems appropriate as we should be seeing Jess towards the end of the week.  

Back from our London break, we've spent the day travelling and are now sorting ourselves out ready for the week ahead.  Its quite a busy week (strangely enough).  

We are due to join my sister Janet, her husband Incredibish and their daughter (sometime blipped) Happy_Charlie for a meal later in the week.  Charlie's been in France working on her double MSc for the last 6 weeks and is home briefly before she goes to join her boyfriend in India for a few weeks, and then its off to Munich for the next part of her course.  The world is so much smaller for their generation than mine.

The next day we have our daughter Jess and her boyfriend joining us for a few days which will be lovely too, as we have not seen them for a little while. 

.... and then.  Well, and then we get to Sunday and the little jaunt Incredibish and I have planned to Islay for the following week on our motorbikes.  I fear the weather may not be kind to us, and who but a madman visits Western Scotland between May and September - which is of course peak midge season?