I've just arrived into work to discover the news that Asco's (the company I work for) CEO - Billy Allan - is a fellow Partick Thistle fan, and furthermore he was elected to Thistles board of directors on Friday! I actually met him properly only a fortnight ago, and had a 15 minute chat with him without once bringing up the subject of football! I'm now rather annoyed with myself (and surprised - when have I ever had a 15 minute conversation with anybody without mentioning football?) as had I brought it up it may possibly have led to keeping contact with someone who is now working in the secretive innards of Firhill. To use an overused phrase, "c'est la vie".....
That aside, and ignoring the sunshine beaming through my office window tempting me into an early finish today, we're just off the back off a busy(ish) weekend. On Friday Carole and I dropped Luca at his grandparents before driving into Aberdeen to watch the new "Star Trek" movie at the harbour cinema. After traversing through crowds of uber-geeks (a group of whom dressed as fat Captain Kirks etc) who were handing out flyer's to join their "trekkie" fan clubs, we made it to our seats far too early. Due to this Carole downed her nachos before the previews had even started, and as such an impasse started where she was sneakily eyeing my pick-n-mix. This is obviously dangerous territory as my pick-n-mix is sacred during cinema visits. A battle ensued, dwarfing anything shown on the screen, with an honourable draw announced as I kept the majority while Carole obtained my chocolate crispy bites.
We also found time to watch some of the movie, which was "terrific" (me) or "very good," (Carole)
On Saturday - after a long lie by our standard - we set sail for Banchory to pick up the wee one. It was supposed to be a running visit (as we had to go to Aberdeen straight afterwards for Carole's fitness class) but Luca had other ideas. When I arrived I found him tucked up in his Gran and Granda's bed, naturally on his Granda's side. It took some effort to get him out of there, but he came after a struggle, albeit unwillingly and still draped in his Gran's necklaces!
As time was now tight we raced into Aberdeen to drop Carole off before going to the supermarket. After we dropped her off I turned to Luca and said "Shall we go to the shops now?". "No" he replied, "Sit on Granny's knee". "Do you miss Granny?" I asked. "Yes" he countered, "Miss Granny"
After shopping (and picking Carole up again) we went home, got Luca to bed and got everything ready for our dinner that evening. We had Donald, Luisa and Ed coming over (Ed for the first time since we moved to Inverurie), so there was a lot of cooking and cleaning to get through. They arrived early that evening , but thankfully we were pretty much there - apart from Luca having just emptied nigh on his entire toy collection across the living room.
Don and Luisa were particularly impressed with his vocabulary (it's been months since they saw him), in particular "antelope" - cow and sheep they expected, but his knowledge of types of animals is exemplary!
On Sunday (thankfully mostly hangover free) we took the car into Aberdeen again for another class for Carole. This time Luca and I spent our time in a comic shop, although we had to cut this rather short as he still prefers ripping comics to reading them..... We also took a brief run into a supermarket where Luca's day was made by an assistant there giving him a free Easter Egg!
The rest of the day was spent watching the footy on TV (which Carole and I snoozed through most of!), cooking, playing with Luca and washing the car - is that not the most predictable family Sunday you can envisage? It was finished off by another movie at night, "Splinter", a horror movie which split us down the middle -"Riveting" (me) and "Meh" (Carole)
**Conspiracy theory of the day - Paul McCartney is Dead -
Ignoring the millions to be made in merchandise if this were true, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is dead but his demise has been covered up by the media, the music industry and his family and friends. A lot of people to hush up for no reason. He died in 1966 in a car-crash and was replaced by a convenient look-alike and sound-alike (which are surprisingly easy to come by)**
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