everything must go (while stocks last)
i loved this sign, especially the unexpected last line.
aerobics
we went to our friends ian and carolyn’s this afternoon. here is ian giving the girls some flying lessons.
safety notice – no children were hurt in the taking of these photos. but ian did look a bit warned (and worn) out by the time they’d finished.
making do
after a rather excellent church service we had a kids band practice. scott is the drummist but due to transport difficulties hadn’t any drums or sticks.
he borrowed some drums and improvised with a pencil and a wooden spoon. the pencil was HB so his drumming was medium strength.
do kids today know anything about the pencil grading system ? i’d almost forgotten myself.
matt and joy
here are matt and joy. except joy doesn’t like her photo taken so she’s exited. but i think it looks good anyway.
and i could see joy with my eyes when i took the photo. so she’s there, but not quite in frame.
richard and julia
our most lovely friends richard and julia have come down from hull (with hannah) as revenge for us visiting them last week. here they are dancing in the proper style.
(i don’t know about you but i’m just loving the slow sync flash effect thing)
another party
we had to leave our friends’ dr who wedding reception a little early to get to another friend’s 40th birthday party. this too was fantastic with loads of friends from church.
sally has groovy dance lessons so lots of people were doing proper dancing. i prefer freestyle. so i did that in freestyle-corner.
i wore a patterned shirt with my velvet jacket (i had planned to wear my velvet dinner jacket but it had become too stinky thanks to being stored in the loft).
imagine my surprise when i noticed our friend anthony was also wearing a velvet jacket with a patterned shirt. i asked a friend what they thought it meant and she said “it means you are in sync with your local conservative councillor”. for that is what he is.
a fantastic wedding
matt, my colleague and website landlord, today was also a timelord as he married his fincy, nancy (also a work colleague) in a dr who theme’d wedding. it was a fantastic thing with great people, a great place and great dr who props. we really enjoyed ourselves.
there was a police box, a dalek and K9. and people dressed up as people.
the dalek (and K9) were remote controlled by a suspicious man who was running up and down outside the windows trying to see what was happening with his dalek which was joining in the boogying on the dancefloor.
update: see here for newspaper coverage !
anomyninity
here’s a new word. spoken anomyninitiedly by a person we didn’t know before (but now do). not a clue how you spell it.
have a click and listen to the video and see what you think.
click to see
magnification at the museum
i took the girls to reading museum today so we could look at the dodgy biscuit tins and admire the history of reading festival exhibition.
the show piece of the exhition is a guitar that kurt cobain played and smashed up when they headlined reading. no photos were allowed unfortunately. esther asked why he smashed it up and i said i thought he was probably really angry. esther said “well that’s not a very good thing to do, even if you are angry”.
there’s a couple of things we have to do every time we go to the museum. one is use the giant microscope, and the other is look through the magnifying glasses at beatles. kezia has a badger on her shoulder which was part of the museum’s treasure hunt for kids.
a gorgeous meal
we went round to our friends andy and gill this evening and met two of their friends who were really great. we laughed ’til our faces were sore which is a great thing.
gill cooked a lovely meal. here is some of it. and my beer.
a new building
this building wasn’t here before. except it was. only there was another building in front which is now gone. so it took me by surprise.
of course if you didn’t know it was meant to be there to begin with it won’t take you by surprise. unless everything takes you by surprise in which case you would have been surprised anyway.
xmas
i’m really scared now. christmas isn’t for another 3 months(ish). yet here is ANOTHER xmas thing already in circulation.
i’ve turned this photo upswaydown so you can see the christmas fella the right way up. unfortunately it means it looks like the roulade is stuck upswaydown on the plate. which it wasn’t.
conference call
cut backs mean john walter and pete all need to share the same desk. it looks cramped but they enjoy the company.
