Saturday 2nd May 2009

Luca and I have only recently returned home from a day in Aberdeen, where I took photo's of him at the pet shop, the car, supermarket and outside the cinema. Yet not in one did he smile! Indeed he was scowling in all bar one.

Perhaps he thought he was having a bad hair day?

As the photo's above demonstrate, it's only since returning home that he's deigned to curl up the corners of his mouth when faced with the camera's stare. He's not a great fan of sitting atop his dad's shoulders, so please bear in mind the laughter he shows here is partly nervous - he was screeching so high only Sima, Isis and the local bat population were able to hear.

I hope I haven't given the impression he was impossible company whilst out - as usual he was a scream, and is turning into our resident comedian. It's a sign of his growing up that he often reacts with the intention of making us laugh, and is surprisingly clever at doing so.

An example would be today in the supermarket, where he picked a packet of jelly off the shelf when I was looking the other way, and refused to give it back when I noticed. When I crouched down to yank it out his hands he grabbed the sides of my head and blew a raspberry on my forehead!

We'd initially gone through to Aberdeen this morning with Carole to drop her off at the gym (she was going straight to lunch after), and have had an exceptionally busy time since. As briefly mentioned before, we went to the library, the pet shop (I'm considering getting a fish tank such is his fascination with these mindless aquatic explorers), the supermarket and the cinema. The latter visitation was with the vague idea to take him to a movie for the first time in his life, but both film timings and Luca's need to get home for (late) lunch and nap kiboshed this idea. A shame, but with summer approaching and a surplus of animated features due to be screened I will keep this idea in mind. Though if he makes it 20 minutes into the film without getting bored then I'll be more shocked than the bloke in "The Crying Game" was.......

Luca is now asleep, and Caroles home now too - sober I must surprisingly add - so I'm taking this time to sort out a film for tonight (It's either going to be a horror called "Splinter" or a comedy called "Role Models"). I also have vague intentions of cooking (!) although I don't think Carole will be too enthused with the idea of her Sunday being ruined with stomach cramps and nausea.

**Conspiracy Theory Of The Day - Global warming is hokum:-The suggestion of a conspiracy to promote the theory of global warming was put forward in a 1990 documentary The Greenhouse Conspiracy broadcast by Channel Four in the United Kingdom on 12 August 1990, as part of the Equinox series, which asserted that scientists critical of global warming theory were denied funding.
William Gray, phD (a pioneer in the science of hurricane forecasting) has made a list of 15 reasons for the global warming hysteria. The list includes the need to come up with an enemy after the end of the Cold War, and the desire among scientists, government leaders and environmentalists to find a political cause that would enable them to ‘organize, propagandize, force conformity and exercise political influence. Big world government could best lead (and control) us to a better world!’ In this article, Gray also cites the ascendancy of Al Gore to the vice presidency as the start of his problems with federal funding. According to him, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stopped giving him research grants, and so did NASA**