Recipe du jour

Take one small boy to the seaside, add fish and chips, one large strawberry milkshake, one large “Mr Whippy” ice cream with a chocolate flake and a goodly measure of orange juice. Shake well for five minutes on a trampoline before placing in a large bouncy castle for ten minutes. Wait half an hour, stop car by side of road, change little boy’s clothes and clean the back seats of the car using baby wipes. I wish that we’d have had some whelks as well.

You laughing at me?

As I was getting ready for work this morning I heard a noise from Sam’s room. Assuming that he had just woken up I went in to see him. He turned over, opened his eyes, looked at me, laughed at me and went back to sleep. Strange kid!

In at the deep end

Sam starts “proper” swimming lessons today. Cathy and I have taken him to the pool loads of times, he loves it. Today is different, today is “little tadpoles” where he gets a “one on one” with an instructor: Mummy has to stay away from the pool. Daddy is very happy to be at work today.

One good turn deserves another

A friend said that my blog was grumpy so, here’s a nicey nice posting. Whilst at the local rubbish dump on Saturday I spotted a chap struggling to carry a large wooden door with a large glass panel in it. I offered him a hand which he gratefully accepted. The two of us had the old door in the skip in seconds and went our separate ways, happy with a job well done. Later that afternoon I was buying a parking ticket, a car stopped next to me and a lady offered me her ticket with about two hours left on it. Now, it only costs 60p to park for two hours, but the gesture was very welcome. I like to think that it was payback for helping the man at the dump. I wonder what the lady who gave me the ticket got.