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Jun. 16th, 2008 01:20 pm
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* BBQ at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellenscult's, which I took evie_petrol to. Fortunately, there were "big girls" there so Evie ran off to play with them.
* Canadian GP, where Lewis Hamilton failed his driving test: it's traditional to stop at red lights...
* My grandad's funeral, in Leicester. He lived into his nineties. I hope I manage that long.
* Getting back to work after a day off for the funeral, to be immediately taken off into a room to be told I'm in a "reducing pool" with the threat of redundancy. Great! :-(Somehow or other, the current Orange re-org makes a couple of positions at my level redundant (2 from 14). So there's going to be all manner of wibble over the next few weeks whilst that gets sorted out. It looks like there's going to be some form of "re-apply for your job and be interviewed" style of selection process.
* Going to see Sex and the City. Curiously, none of my heterosexual male friends wanted to go and see it with me! :-) Fortunately, I found a female one who would. I had no real idea till the film came out that (traditionally) men weren't supposed to watch it. I was only outnumbered about 30:1 by women in the cinema.
* It being "watching week" at Evie's ballet class, which means parents/brothers/sisters/whatever were welcome to go and see what sort of ballet a horde of 3-4 year-olds get up to. I believe the expression "fairy elephants" was invented for this.
* Trash going away to Otley for two nights, leaving Daddy in charge at home. Fortunately, the local girls were out in force and Evie's little group of four girls ambled from house to house all day Sunday, just requiring the odd bit of parental supervision to arbitrate disputes and hand out biscuits and fruit shoots. This meant I stayed in completely this weekend, and continued my long-term catch-up with CSI.
* Reading Mark Barrowcliffe's The Elfish Gene, an astonishingly painful account of his teenage years playing Dungeons and Dragons. Sadly, it reminded me of my teenage years rather a lot, but not necessarily in a good way. Also reading Stuart Maconie's Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North, and laughing at his description of Yorkshire folk ... but then, he's from Lancashire, so what does he know? :-)
ellenscult's, which I took evie_petrol to. Fortunately, there were "big girls" there so Evie ran off to play with them.* Canadian GP, where Lewis Hamilton failed his driving test: it's traditional to stop at red lights...
* My grandad's funeral, in Leicester. He lived into his nineties. I hope I manage that long.
* Getting back to work after a day off for the funeral, to be immediately taken off into a room to be told I'm in a "reducing pool" with the threat of redundancy. Great! :-(Somehow or other, the current Orange re-org makes a couple of positions at my level redundant (2 from 14). So there's going to be all manner of wibble over the next few weeks whilst that gets sorted out. It looks like there's going to be some form of "re-apply for your job and be interviewed" style of selection process.
* Going to see Sex and the City. Curiously, none of my heterosexual male friends wanted to go and see it with me! :-) Fortunately, I found a female one who would. I had no real idea till the film came out that (traditionally) men weren't supposed to watch it. I was only outnumbered about 30:1 by women in the cinema.
* It being "watching week" at Evie's ballet class, which means parents/brothers/sisters/whatever were welcome to go and see what sort of ballet a horde of 3-4 year-olds get up to. I believe the expression "fairy elephants" was invented for this.
* Trash going away to Otley for two nights, leaving Daddy in charge at home. Fortunately, the local girls were out in force and Evie's little group of four girls ambled from house to house all day Sunday, just requiring the odd bit of parental supervision to arbitrate disputes and hand out biscuits and fruit shoots. This meant I stayed in completely this weekend, and continued my long-term catch-up with CSI.
* Reading Mark Barrowcliffe's The Elfish Gene, an astonishingly painful account of his teenage years playing Dungeons and Dragons. Sadly, it reminded me of my teenage years rather a lot, but not necessarily in a good way. Also reading Stuart Maconie's Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North, and laughing at his description of Yorkshire folk ... but then, he's from Lancashire, so what does he know? :-)