When we first moved down here I used to spend most of my Sundays making a family roast and I do mean the full works – stuffing, roast potatoes, mixed veg, gravy….mmmmmm. This slackened off though in the new year due to time constraints and the fact that we got a bit busier. Today I’m starting slow towards a build up and I’m making a traditional italian pasta sauce – in other words I started making it at midnight last night – the sauce requires a good few hours of simmering it should be ready for tonight, though I doubt it will be as good as my grandmothers! 
So Friday I had another half day – Kai isn’t sleeping well still so I came home early to help out around the house, thank god for flexi. Friday night was a pretty quiet one in all honestym, its so quiet I can’t even recall what it was we got up to exactly….I think I spent most of the night playing with my anniversary gift. One campaign down, 1 to go basically (as of last night that is).
Yesterday Kai wanted to go to the Home and Garden show at the racecourse so when we eventually arose from our torpor we sorted the kids out and piled into the car and drove down there (was about 12ish by the time we arrived). We spent about two hours wandering amongst the stands gathering a horde of baloons for the kids and trying to avoid being given hard sales by pushy sales people. We didn’t escape with our wallets intact but at least we escaped. Kai bought some vases (ones that are completely flat but gain shape when you water) and some towels (we needed new ones). Then due to the kids we spent another £10 in the cafe – really poor value for money imho- on a sandwich, 2 teas, 2 hot chocolates and a pair of twixs. We had a nice wander round the garden show area – Kai admired plants, hammocks and lawn ornaments, saw the bird of prey area (very cute owl) and then we fled the scene. Our next stop was Tescos, we had a fair bit of trouble from Lexxie at Tescos but we soon got everything sorted and the shopping done. I got the stuff to make my sauce for today and we completed stocking up our ‘man-fridge’ (so named by myself as it’s where I’m keeping all the bbq foods and beer….). We then came home. Kai then made the suggestion of a wander down to the Norwood Arms (local pub) for a plate of chips and a pint out in their garden area. So we went. I really enjoyed that, Lexxie on the other hand decided to be a wee menace again – so after our first pint it was time to take her home. Kai then decided that she wanted a trip to Ikea – it was 430pm by this point and the closest Ikea is at least an hour away. So I said no, I felt that Lexxie had been enough of a handful yesterday that I didn’t want to go far with her, that and it was nearing time to make dinner and the kids would whine and whinge until they were fed….. Turns out she really wanted a hammock, some pretty things and some candles. So I offered a compromise, I’d take her to BnQ, Homebase, Argos or Focus to get her hammock and we’d go to Ikea on Monday (its a bank holiday). After some to-ing and fro-ing we finally agreed that this is what we’d do. By 630pm we were home from Focus with a rocking sun lounger and once again Lexxie and Tom had been sent to their rooms for bad behaviour (just one of those days – they’d not been too bad the last few days beforehand). We then started to make our dinner. We’d bought 4 pizza bases, various toppings, sauce, and plenty of cheese. The kids got called in one at a time to help choose their toppings, then Kai and I made our own. We got them into the oven just in time to setlle in and watch Dr Who. The kids were called in and allowed to watch this despite their behaviour. It was an ok episode, not their best but it was ok. Kai was a bit disappointed to find our Eurovision had bumped it for a week but hey, we may get another Lordi! So kinders went back to bed after eating dinner and Kai and I settled in for the night. She went off to do some writing and I finished off the GDI campaign of my anniversary gift. Kai did come down and join me and whilst I was preparing my pasta sauce, she had another go at the NOD campaign (she secretly rather enjoys RTS games 
). At 130am we collapsed in bed.
So what’s everyone else been upto?
I spent all of Friday evening to Saturday morning asleep. I’d been out with Patrick on Thursday night and when we get blethering in a boozer, there ain’t no such animal as “a few quiet ones”, so I was tired and hung-over all Friday.
Yesterday was spent mostly phoning Virgin to demand to know what the hell was up with my Internet Connection. I’d been planning on having a lazy day playing WoW, but the Internet wasnt playing ball. Turns out that theres an ongoing problem with the main Edinburgh cable thingy, which didnt effect me until “Milo”, my ancient hardware firewall finally fell over.
Thankfully Adam is back in the city and wasnt doing anything, so he was able to come over and help me out by determining exaclty where the problem was at my end. So know we have a shiny new Router and my internet is working like poo off a shiny shovel. (very fast). I think Milo was breaking down for quite some time, which would explain a lot about my latency problems….
Then it was off to see Spiderman 3 last night. I’ll let you make your own mind up if/when you manage to see it, but for me it was a lot like Attack of the Clones. Way too much going on, all wrapped around a soap-opera love story.
At least they did a good job with Venom.
Comment by Fluffy — May 6, 2007 @ 2:21 pm