It's now 4pm on December 23rd and surprisingly this is the first chance I've had today to set the lever on my office chair to "relax". I guess this is the pre Christmas rush, although with any luck that's it over with now. That said, in this industry it's any ones guess.
I am in the wrong industry however. Has everyone read Dad's latest blog, detailing his Christmas lunch with the great and good of UK industry? Apparently Sir Alan Sugar didn't receive an invite as his status wasn't quite at the prerequisite level.
Most pertinently, did he convince any of them to invest in Partick Thistle?
Quizzically, again I have few Luca stories to regale you with. I simply haven't seen much of him in the last week. I did get home in time to give him his bath last night though, a rare occurrence as this is more prominently a "Mummy" job. It's clearly been a while since I last bathed him as I was surprised to see him do pretty much everything himself! Once he'd stripped (he needs little help here now) he essentially pushed me out the way and turned the taps on. My every attempt to assist were met with comments such as "Don't turn that off Daddy, we need more hot water".
He still gurns like a we'an though. Attempting to wash his hair elicits a facial expression not too dissimilar to Stan Laurel on the occasions Oliver Hardy complained "That's another fine mess you've got us into".
Once the bath was over and we'd had our standard battle with the hair drier ("No like it, it's too hot! Luca dry Daddy's tummy instead!") we eventually got him off to bed and cuddled up in front of the TV with our dinners. Carole risked my wrath (yeah I know) by plundering my TV remotes (a man must have control of the television remote - it's the little known 11th commandment) to ensure a celebrity edition of her favourite programme "Come Dine With Me" would be shown.
Although judging by the individuals on view the word "celebrity" stretches the truth somewhat. Afterwards, and as we were enjoying the warmth of the living room while the opposite of global warming occurred outside, we flicked through our 998 channels to find a movie to watch. The best of which was "The Butterfly Effect 2". Never heard of "The Butterfly Effect 1"? That's how obscure this film was!
It wasn't bad though, despite a cast clearly assembled at random from the local modelling agency. And a budget somewhat comparable to a nearly new Vauxhall Astra.
**Useless fact of the day - It is a monkey who plays the role of Mickey Mouse in Laurel and Hardy's most famous film "Babes in Toyland"**
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