3rd June 2010 (Thursday) Happy Birthday Pobble!!

Many Happry Returns to the Pobble today, and hope our offerring has arrived in time for the event. Camel might try and explain the rationale behind our rather bizarre present... well, there was some. Somewhere. Hope you have a very, most Excellent, Day!  xxxx

Well. Today was a total ‘holiday’ as far as I’m concerned, though how someone without a job can be said to have a holiday I don’t know. Anna had invited me last night to go to a cinema screening of ‘Iron Man 2’- I readily agreed.

So by 9:30 in the morning we were at the cinema, and discovering there isn’t much to do our there before the film starts. May I suggest, next time you go the cinema (hopefully it won’t have been about 6 years since the last time, like me), try a cappuccino rather than a coke. It’s excellent. Much less gassy and infinitely tastier, with the same caffeine content. Well, Iron Man 2. Lovely. Exactly what you’d expect – and I do so hate surprises. Mind you, I was entirely delighted by the new role for Scarlett Johanson – who as you all no doubt know is the spitting image of the Pie…. This time she’s got auburn-going-on-black-curly hair and is some secret service mafia killer chick, leaving a trail of entirely dead men in her wake without ever breaking a sweat and I just loved it, oh YES the Pie got her own back, go for it. Hum. Plus there’s the hilarious, unspoken alliance between her and the Gwenneth Paltrow character, even better. Hum. I don’t think this is meant to be the main forward thrust of the movie (come to think of it, not sure what is) but hey it was enjoyed. Anyway we got home at gone midday so invited Anna in and cooked up some Simple Sauce pasta for lunch, and we gassed till well gone two. Then it was but a short while to get shorts hoiked up and a few tiny bits done before we went to pick the kids up… and then Lillian came over the play with the Non (Thursday, Lillian day, we’d promised), so they dutifully did until about 5:30. Had a great time playing board games (‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ game we got from the Camel quite a while back) and reading books of various types, mainly. Then fed the Non (Daddy late back today because of visit to Sydney), while she watched Peter Rabbit videos borrowed from the library. The one of Peter Rabbit getting into Mr McGregor’s garden was extremely suspenseful, it seems. I though they were pretty dull and tedious videos and books and the best way to get the information into the child to reference purposes without too much pain might be through videos, so I borrowed them. My goodness, she doesn’t seem to find them tedious. Was watching the stuff with jaw hanging open in grave danger of losing the piece of steak she was chewing on. ‘Will they get home very SOON?’ was the constant refrain. Luckily, all ends well in these stories.


Ooh, lightening. It really hasn’t stopped raining (and heavily) here for the last age or so – one can only hope that plenty of much-needed water is accumulating in all the right places, as we are decidedly damp.

In all this clabber I haven’t breathed a word about the lovey Mr and his trip to Sydney today to give his talk. Well it all seems to have gone very well, and there seem to have been lots of ‘networking’ connections and stuff deployed so as a day of work it sounds eminently successful. Good work Mr. Came home nice and early too, just in time to see the Littles to bed and then have a decent supper himself, so plenty of time on the train but hey home in decent time anyway.

Right. Apart from that I know nothing more. Lots of love to y’all, V xxxx