Wednesday, 14th March 2007
The event – Father in law’s 60th versus best friend’s 40th
The venue – Cooper’s Hotel, Clacton on Sea versus The Beeches Hotel, Norwich
The issue – The SAME day
The consequence – Lose the in-law’s favour or let down the friend
What would you do? This blog entry will self destruct in 5 seconds.
Yes readers, Saturday 10th March proved to be a day that tested my loyalties to the extreme. My great friend Mark turned 40 on the very day that my father in law David celebrated his 60th birthday with all of his family in Clacton on Sea. How could I possibly miss my best friends party? How dare I miss my father in law’s party? Fortunately, Heidi made the choice pretty straight forward for me, “miss my dad’s party and you’ll never hear the end of it” – or words to that effect. So with great sadness I accepted my fate and without any further ado gleefully chose to head on down to Essex.
As it happened we (and I should add I never doubted for a minute that we would) had a terrific day celebrating with David. Approximately 25 people made their way across the country to be with him at Paul and Denise’s luxurious home in Costa Del Clacton. We enjoyed some lovely food, played some great games and had many laughs together. David’s biggest surprise came after he’d opened all of his presents and blown out ALL 60 candles on his birthday cake, when we presented him with a certificate for completing 60 years of life, the reward for which was a trip in my brother in law’s Microlight (to be arranged).
Thanks to Paul and Denise for hosting the party (rather them than me). I just know you’re dying to see some pictures of the party, so click on to flickr and look for the group of pictures entitled ‘David’s 60th birthday party’.
BUT, wait a minute, just hold on a moment – would you believe it, to my astonishment, following tea the party slowly began to wain and folk started to make their way home. Likewise, by 7.30 we too were ready to leave and so by 9 o’clock I was making a toast to my good friend Mark at The Beeches Hotel in Norwich. Mission Impossible?, huh, not for me, I laugh in the face of adversity. We had a great evening with Mark’s family and friend (no that isn’t a typing error)Â Actually, it turned out that he had quite a few friends after all). Like the true scavenger that I am, I quickly finished off the lamb that my sister had left on her plate before playing some great musical games organised by Steve. Unfortunately I had to perform a couple of songs on behalf of my, rather reluctant, uninspired team mates. For more pictures of Mark’s party, click on flickr again and go to the group entitled ‘Mark’s 40th birthday party’.
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Posted by Daddy @ 7:51 PM
Friday, 9th March 2007
I took this picture showing the first flowers of spring last week. I thought it made an interesting contrast amongst the grave stones. New life amidst the symbolism of death.
Posted by Daddy @ 11:50 PM
Monday, 26th February 2007
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I thought that you’d like to know what my mummy does at work whilst daddy and I are getting up to mischeive at home. Â
Posted by Isaac @ 10:39 PM
Monday, 26th February 2007
There are big changes to report on The Bathtime Blog. Firstly, mummy and daddy appear to be making another concerted effort to rid me of my beloved nappies. Evidently their previous attempts failed because they have resorted to new sinister tactics. My potty has been upgraded to the super deluxe throne of potty’s. Believe it or not, when I sit on it I am greeted with a delightful little tune. Better still, when I grace it with my you know what, the potty celebrates with me by playing a fanfare chorus. All very funny to you, totally humiliating to me. Anyway, I’ve had partial success but won’t offer you any further details just now.
The next thing I know I’ve been chucked out of my cot. I now have a new bed as I’m a ‘big boy now’. Surprisingly, (given how long it took him to put the stairgate up) Daddy put the bed together in record time. He was playing a Matt Redman CD as he did it supposedly to stop him swearing when things started to go wrong. But they never did.
However, it went up without a hitch. It looked great and I couldn’t wait to get in it but firstly mummy gave me the conditions of use. Apparently, I’m not to get out of my bed until morning.
I even had to shake on it. Deal or no deal?
I am maturing into a fine young man now and as you can see my abilities with my brio blocks and playdough go from strength to strength. My guitar playing isn’t bad either (it’s definately better than daddy’s so my mummy says).
Though needless to say, I still have my moments.
Posted by Isaac @ 8:55 PM
Saturday, 24th February 2007
Greetings readers. I’m sorry that it has been so long since I last updated my blog. In all honesty there hasn’t been an awful lot to tell you about and since Christmas we’ve all been feeling a bit under the weather. I had the worstest flu that I’ve ever had and experienced fever for at least two days. I had so much Calpol that I turned pink. I thought it only fair to let my daddy know how I was feeling so I passed it onto him. Daddy looked awful (yes, much worse than normal) and mummy told all her friends that it was proper flu rather than man flu. What does she mean? All I wanted to do for the week was watch CBeebees and Daddy didn’t have the energy to prevent me. By Friday Daddy said he had post viral CBeebees depression. Mummy managed to hold it off for another week before succumbing to the germs (she had little chance of avoiding it judging by the number of snotty tissues lying around the house). Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures to show of this period although if I did I’m not sure that they would get past the censors.
However, last weekend was very exciting because we all went to Frank and Sue’s house and stayed over night. Frank and Sue are Isabela and Angelika’s nanny and grandad. They’re well cool! Frank has a big beard that tickled me when I kissed him. Our friends Mary and Ermir and Ralf and Linda stayed the night with us and I got to sleep in my new blow up Thomas the Tank Engine bed for the first time. We had lots of fun and great food and I want to thank Frank and Sue for their hospitality. Â
 Mary, Ermir and Isabela with Ermir’s mother Marika
 Sue bringing in the gruel
 She does like to spin a good yarn
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 Linda, Ralf and Frank
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Posted by Isaac @ 7:49 PM
