Do not believe that your eyes are fooling you, this indeed is another blog entry, nary a single day after the last. And yes, this is wholly demonstrative of how quiet it is at work for me now.
What to say since yesterday? Thursday, as I'm certain you were all aware (hopefully) was Valentines Day, a day for faux declarations of affection, seemingly intended to demonstrate how inept we are the other 364 days of the year at showing our love for our other halfs. What a great idea that was by Christian priest Valentine. I bet he didn't have many male friends.
That said, we had a nice day yesterday. Carole cooked us a 3 course dinner (delicious) before we settled down to a DVD, the excruciatingly bad "Resident Evil Retribution". It was the latest in a series of Resident Evil movies (we love any zombie related flicks) but even for our tastes it was rather a test of endurance to persevere through to end credits. My acting at age 15, pretending to Mum and Dad that the exquisite colours of vomit exiting my body was due to having "eaten a bad chipper" rather than the bottle of Merrydown cider I'd consumed down at the local river was more convincing than that of the professional "actors" in this movie.
Interestingly, however, Carole stayed awake throughout. Interesting because since her pregnancy (nearly 7 years ago - crikey) she's been wholly unable to stay awake throughout a single film. Seriously. Usually she'll fall asleep minutes after a films intro, even if we're at the cinema. It's like her superpower.
Luca joined in with the spirit of the day too. He created a Valentines Day card for his Mum at after-school club, and resolutely kept it in his grasp even as we trudged round the supermarket before coming home. He was determined that no harm would come to it until he presented it to his Mummy. Cute
During our expedition I explained the history and the point of Valentines Day to him. He shot me a worried glance after I'd finished talking. "I should have given Skye a Valentines card today shouldn't I?". It transpires Skye is his girlfriend again (they appear to have rather an on/off relationship.....), so we hatched a plan. We raced home, pulled his paper and pens from the cupboard and he created a personalised card for Skye. He drew a picture of a rhino on the front of the card too, the old romantic.
Back into the car we jumped (by now the clock had struck 7.30pm) and drove to Skye's house. Luca jumped out, sneaked to her front door and very quietly posted it through the letterbox before sprinting back toward me. "She'll be so happy when she gets that won't she Dad?" he proudly declared, as he climbed back into the car, rested his arms behind his head and sighed smugly.
**Useless fact of the day - Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light
shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock**
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