As this is my third blog in a row without photo's I must sincerely apologise, particularly as the absence of such is holding up description of the weekends events.
Can it just suffice to say much fun was had and Luca was very cute? No? OK. I will upload these sometime in the next two days, in particular for Janes benefit for which I have a number of Max too.
And before he mentions it again, I will send a DVD of our holiday photo's to Dad soon too - again it's been a time issue - and of course a memory one too. Perhaps I should exchange this DVD for fish from his factories. Unless anyone can disprove the theory that fish are great for increasing brainpower and the memory?
By the looks of the other blogs everybody's routine seems to be returning to normal now. Ours is too, albeit at a slower rate - with having guests up for a few days, added to Caroles curious illness it's been difficult to get back into the swing of everyday life. However, with Carole apparently returning to a more healthy state we should be able to move forward from here, and I should also have time to blog outwith the limited periods of first thing or lunchtime from my office.
Not that it will be a quiet time. Across the next several weekends we've got a night out in Stonehaven with friends, a few other friends coming round to ours for dinner (which may develop into a barbeque if the weather continues to improve) and a bowling night. I haven't mentioned the latter to Carole yet, so if she reads this then this will be her notification!
I know Carole particularly just wants a day or two of quietness to recover and get back to full fitness, so touch wood I can keep this weekend relatively free in order to do this. I'm a little in need of the same, so with the exception of dog walking and Luca entertaining I'll endeavour to keep things quieter than the engine of a Mercedes 2002 Benz E55. Apparently that's quite quiet, and as Ross doesn't read the blog I'm confident he won't now barrage me with emails detailing some particularly obscure car facts.
Reading Dad's blog about his old friends moving/working away reminded me in particular of an old friend of mine, Michael Pratt/Jefferson (he changed his surname by deed poll!). We were friends throughout much of our childhood, but had a (relatively) minor argument at around age 21/22 and haven't spoken since. Indeed, he got married about a year later and I didn't even hear about it until after the event. A curious situation - but my early 20's were a particularly hectic time socially so I never gave the situation too much thought. Should I consider making contact after such a long period? Obviously I don't have contact details for him but despite the fact he moved from the area many years ago, in these days of Bebo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc it surely wouldn't be too difficult to locate him. I think perhaps it wouldn't be worth it (as life is busy enough) but Dad's blog just got me thinking.
His recent downloads have got me thinking too. My recent music additions have been a little more diverse than normal, from the indie jangle of "Liars", to the post-grunge of "Fightstar", through the soundscape of "The Decemberists", onto the electro pop of "Lady Gaga" (and I make no apologies for the final addition!).
Waffle aside, despite the need for quiet time during a busy work and social period, I also hope to drag Carole to the cinema at some point soon. Due to a number of reasons, I'm devastated we missed the recent run of "Watchmen" in the cinema's, as it was my most anticipated release in quite some time. Unbelievably, taking into account the hefty collection of graphic novels I have, I've never actually read the comic version which the movie is based on - hopefully I can rectify that at some point in the future. However, the upcoming cinematic releases of "I Love You Man", "Wolverine" and "Star Trek" hold much appeal and will definitely be viewed. And of course further into the year is "Transformers 2". We haven't seen many at home lately, although Carole caught most of a dodgy horror called "Scourge" on the Sci-Fi channel last night which she predictably enjoyed! I'm still watching movies on my MP4 (albeit across a number of days) whilst sitting on buses to and from work, with the most recent being "In Bruges" - which I have to recommend, even if it is purely to see Ralph Fiennes shoot himself after accidentally murdering a midget.
And as the cliche go's ("last but not least"):- the wee man. He's been good, and for the first time in a long, long time I both dropped him off and picked him up from nursery yesterday in order to give Carole a full day of rest in a quiet house. It was nice to pick him up, as he came running across the nursery when I walked in screeching "My daddy, my daddy". The girl in the nursery took me across to where he'd been playing to show me what he'd been doing. Similarly to home, he'd placed toy cars in a long line, one behind the other, all perfectly straight. I wonder what this says about him? Surely Kelly's 147 years of university psychology training could tell us? I took him to the supermarket before we went home, and as we stood paying for our food the checkout woman turned to Luca and asked his name. I'm not sure what he heard though, as he proceeded to jump up and down whilst crying out "bouncy bouncy"!
**Useless fact of the day - Time is finite: 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and 7 days a week. You can't save it, but you can waste it. The amount of time we have does not matter, but rather the way we use it. More of a philosophy than a useless fact but there you go....**
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