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Thursday, 24th May 2007

All in a short walk

Here are a couple of interesting pictures that I took today on my short walk to work.

Polish Grocery store opens today.  I particularly liked the plea to ‘Give us a Try’ which I thought could be interpreted in 2 ways, both from a commercial and a ethnological perspective.  Needless to say I popped my head around the door to offer them best wishes using all the Polish that I knew, ‘Lech Walesa’.

A little further on I passed Notre Dame High School and noticed on the gates that familiar tape that police use to cordon off an area to be investigated.  Being an inquisitive kind of a guy I sneaked a look around the gates and to my astonishment saw the following.

Hopefully, given that I had not heard anything on the news, this was a school art project.  If so, I thought placing it next to the main road was a little insensitive to say the least, particularly for the other members of the chalk family.

To cheer me up following the shock of seeing such wanton disregard for school property, my good friend Mark reminded me of one of my favourite jokes which we heard Milton Jones tell when we were at Greenbelt.

My Dad’s always complaining about the price of drinks, 50p for a cup of tea, 75p for a coffee.  I mean, it’s not even as if he told me he was coming round.

Thanks Mark

Posted by Daddy @ 5:07 PM  

Thursday, 24th May 2007

Bad hair day

Yesterday my Gran cut my hair as she quite often does.  Only this time, she was given license to cut it a little bit shorter, what with summer being just around the corner.  Unfortunately, apparently the shaver was faulty and my hair is too thin (what’s that phrase about workmen and their tools?).

When daddy came to pick me up he sensed something was wrong.  It might have been because I was wearing a balaclava and was told not to move away from the wall.  Gran felt bad but she was also very frightened at what mummy might say (she can be a bit scary at times my daddy says). 

Fortunately for Gran the pictures that Daddy took don’t show the full impact of the cut but here it is nevertheless for posterity.

Thanks Gran, I still love you.  Besides, as you can see, with a cheery grin, I’ve quite literally put it all behind me.

Isaac

Posted by Isaac @ 4:54 PM  

Sunday, 20th May 2007

Musical Youth

On Friday, I went to visit my Godparents, Nic and Jon who live in Enfield.  We were meant to meet them last weekend in Cambridge you may recall.  Nic and Jon are going to be moving abroad soon, probably to Nepal to work for the Baptist Missionary Society for a couple of years.  I’m going to miss them big time because they’re well cool.  Hopefully we might be able to go out to Nepal to visit them once they have settled in. 

Nic’s friend Caz also came to stay with her and we all had a great time fooling around and playing musical instruments.   

As you can see Nic needed a little help holding the French Horn.  It seems to keep her hands warm though.  Caz was playing the guitar in the background and daddy had the triangle, which he still managed to play out of tune. 

On Saturday, Caz surprised me by giving me a new copy of Surprising which is my favourite CD.  Caz is a very good friend of Gerry, who is my favourite singer of all time.  You may remember that some time ago I told you that I’d played the CD so many times that the Jesus song kept jumping.  Caz read my blog, heard my plea and delivered the goods.  I am very grateful for her generosity and for giving me back my Jesus song.  I should mention that I am rather strapped for cash at the moment if anyone happens to have some lying around.

One of the reasons for visiting Nic and Jon was because on Saturday there was an open day for Mill Grove which is where Jon’s parents run a home for children and families in need of respite care (so I’m told).  Jon grew up there himself.  There was a service of thanksgiving in the afternoon (which Daddy sneaked out of to find a TV – it was the FA Cup Final after all) which is attended faithfully by people who grew up at Mill Grove when they were children – some as early as the 1930s. Although the service was a little long, Daddy assured us that it must have been better than the football match.

Personally I thought the food was excellent but daddy clearly wasn’t satisfied and had to find other things around the house to eat, something that I found quite insulting to our guests.   

We had a lovely weekend and thanks to Nic and Jon for their hospitality.  Oh, one other thing before signing off.  Auntie Nic was particularly keen for me to post a picture of her on her hen night.  Enjoy.

 

Mummy spent hours making the hen costume which she tells me daddy had to model for her.  Unforunately, we have no equally embarrassing picture of Jon, though I doubt he would have been so gullible as to dress up as a stag for the entire world to see.

Posted by Isaac @ 9:15 PM  

Monday, 14th May 2007

The sodden buds of May

What a couple of weeks we’ve had. Having enjoyed the lovely sunshine in April, May has turned out to be quite literally a washout, hence the lack of activity on The Bathtime Blog. Apologies to my avid readers, OK, reader. Actually, I’ll have you know, the blog received its first visitor from China yesterday so welcome. Likewise, someone on the east coast of the US of A has checked me out on at least 11 occasions according to my clustermap (thank you Harry, the cheques in the post, sorry ‘check’ as you guys say).

So, what have I been up to in the rain. Last week I went to Pleasurewood Hills. Daddy had assured us that the forecast showed lots of sunshine rays amongst the clouds. Uhm. We got drenched. So much so that I only managed to capture this action packed picture of me and daddy on the dodgems.

I am there, I promise, on the far side going left. Yes, that’s me under daddy’s right armpit. I’m clearly going faster than everyone else because I’m more blurred than them. We had a great time despite the rain, at least we didn’t have to queue for any of the rides. We went for mummy’s sake really, she goes just crazy for a thrill. Which leads me nicely onto the weekend when Mummy and Daddy celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary. Daddy even brought mummy some flowers.

I think daddy was looking forward to a thrill of his own. Sadly I put pay to that because that evening I was sick 3 times all over my bed, Herbert and Jimmy, 2 sets of pajamas, 1 pillow, 2 duvet covers and 3 towels. I ended up sleeping with mummy and so daddy had to go and sleep down stairs. Unlucky!

Unfortunately it meant that we were not able to go to Cambridge as we’d planned to meet up with Uncle Jon and Auntie Nick. Apparently, we were all going to go to mummy’s favourite restaurant, Cafe Rouge. Daddy went to Cambridge for his tutorial but I stayed at home with mummy. Happy anniversary!

On Sunday I was feeling much better and we got the play dough out and made Scoop, Lofty and Muck from Bob the Builder.

OK, so daddy might have helped a little – he made Bob.

Well, that just about wraps it up for now. Hopefully the weather will pick up soon and I can start to do some more adventureous activities and visit more interesting places. In the meantime, let me leave you with a picture of the wisteria at the front of my house as it happens to be at its peak.

Ah, the darling buds of May.

Posted by Isaac @ 8:02 PM