Due to work/illness/Valentines, I haven't taken any new photo's lately, so you'll have to suffice with a three day old photo of Sima beating up Isis (again). She's growing like a good 'un now.
I write this whilst enjoying the rare blissfull peace of an empty house. Carole, Liz and Luca have undertaken a shopping excursion into Aberdeen. They were originally going to go on Wednesday (the day after Luca's surgery) but Carole get's extremely defensive of the little boggle eyed one, and can't stand the thought of people staring at his scars. Although I'm not troubles by the same issue, I do understand where her hesitancy comes from.
I was woken this morning by the humpty boy - he came through to the bedroom and announced (at the top of his voice, natch) "daddy's in bed sleeping". Indeed, this was announced so loudly I almost expected Lucy to call to ask why I'd slept in so late.
Although this call would be rather unlikely, with the previous paragraph more prevalently showing my ability to wildly exaggerate, the reason for my extended sleep was two-fold. Firstly, I'm still not well (violins play quietly...), and secondly was that this was allied to a busy Valentines day. Unfortunately, and certainly for the sake of my health, I'd organised a busy day. We started with a 3 course lunch at the Meldrum House Hotel, followed by an afternoon at "Lochters" (an outdoor activity estate - our events encompassed Karting, Sumo Wrestling and Archery), which preceeded a trip to a 3D cinema and finished with tickets to the theatre ("Witches of Eastwick" starring Marti Pellow). All were highly enjoyable, with a notable mention going to Meldrum House - outstanding does not give their food justice. Although I think Carole mostly enjoyed the coffees in the drawing room in front of a freashly kit open fire. Genuinely luxurious.
Liz had a great time with Luca while we were away too - it's not often she gets her youngest grandchild to herself. It's also not too often Carole and I take a day together too, and we're very grateful!
Now my wallets empty (I cleared out the mothballs in preparation for Valentines), the rest of this month will be quite quiet. Ish, we've one more night out this month - a night on the beer with a couple of friends. Touch wood I may have recovered from my man-flu by then.
I've just read dad's blog, and been reminded of those terrible programmes he/we used to watch. Some of those on his list - such as 3-2-1 - should have been left in the memories of time! My favourites would be:-
Match Of The Day
The X Files
Coronation Street
The Manageress (bet no-one remembers that one)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Millenium
Frasier
Prisoner Cell Block H (in my student days - it's expected)
Film ...... With Barry Norman (Jonathan Ross isn't even in the same ballpark)
Smallville
Family Guy
30 Rock (very new across here, and only shown at strange times - though I assume Lucy and Scott will know it well?)
With my brain still operating in autopilot, I must sign off - I hope everyone had a great Valentines, and I'll update again on Tuesday with pictures of Luca apres-operation.
**Useless fact of the day - 30 Rock has been a critical success, winning several major awards including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series both in 2007 and 2008, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series, the Producers Guild of America Award for Producer of the Year in Episodic Comedy Series, and a Peabody Award, as well as achieving the top ranking on myriad critics' year-end best of 2006 and 2007 lists**
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