Greetings from another sunny day in Lincoln. I'll start this off with an introduction on the adjoining picture. This was taken narey an hour ago, and is of Luca eating his breakfast resplendant in his new bib - it's a Lincoln City one. Mike and I went to Licoln V Rochdale last night, and I had to pop into the club shop while there to pick up odds and sods, the only disappointment being there were no strips small enough for him.
I actually watched the game alone last night as Mike and I got separated - I went for a pie before the game kicked off, and couldn't find him thereafter! I didn't think finding him would be a problem, but with nigh on 5000 fans present (at an English 3rd division game! Almost as high as many Aberdeen attendances) and Mike not having entered the mobile phone age yet we were pretty much scuppered!
The pie was worth it though, great braised steak interior with fluffy pastry....
If anyone's interested, the game ended 1 - 1 and was worth seeing - they're certainly at the very least on a par with Partick Thistle, probably better.
However, it was after our arrival home that things became interesting. There was a party a couple of doors down from Mike and Val's which got completely out of control. Mass brawls erupted in the street around midnight, and the police were called with 9 vehicles plus riot dogs appearing! And this is a good neighbourhood! I'd actually got myself involved a short while before the police arrived as the fights were spilling onto our property, which left us worried about vehicle and property damage, so I threw on jeans and shoes and headed out to make sure no-one touched Carole's BMW - we would have seen WW3 had that happened! Thankfully I was able to physically separate some fighters (most were only about 16 ish) without anyone taking a swing, though we found out later that there were blades present so that probably wasn't the cleverest thing to do....
The funniest bit came just after the police arrived, as Mike returned home from his apres football pub jaunt. There were still people screaming at each other, police bundling people into vans and general chaos still apparent, yet Mike casually wandered through the epicentre of it, barely even giving the commotion a cursory inquisitory glance!
This aside, since we've been down here we've had a trip to the cinema (Tropic Thunder, avoid it), a tour of Lincolns bars (Mike took me on a rec of the best ones yesterday), a history lesson in the cathedrals/arches/castles/etc and a trip to Nottingham city centre for shopping - Carole actually bought clothes for herself for once, she's unlike most women and detests shopping (which is wonderful for my bank balance!)
I bought comics. Well, what did you expect?
Today Carole's taking Luca to visit an auntie, and then the whole family are getting together for a meal at 5pm in a fish restaurant. This will likely be our last major act before heading back up the road on Sunday, first thing sharp.
I've likely neglected to mention a large number of items, but I'll update the blog accordingly during the course of next week. I've also got a cracking video of Luca playing the piano, but this PC's moving too slow so I'll upload that one back at home - you'll hopefully see it tomorrow night.
One last paragraph before I get me/Carole/Luca ready for the day - Luca's been good as gold since we came down, he's had no full scale tantrums, slept without objection and been affectionate with everyone. He even slept through the "Lincoln riots" last night! Though the minute I hit the "publish" button, he'll likely fulfill "sods law" and turn into the spawn of the demon he can be.....
**Useless fact of the day - Youth crime figures for Lincoln have been falling faster than the national average. Guess last night will have screwed those figures up...**
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