Saturday morning started with putting together some flat-pack sidetables for the lounge. They had been delivered on Friday along with the TV unit for the bedroom. That was obviously also flat-packed. I don’t usually have any problems putting these things together and as it is almost identical to the one we have downstairs I wasn’t expecting any issues. The instruction were very clear. The problem was that despite all the parts being clearly numbered on the instruction sheet there were no stickers on the actual parts. Quite a few had very subtle differences such as where pre drilled holes were so it basically looked like a pile of wood and some screws.

I got it sorted. Just had the doors to put on. One of the doors has a magnet to keep it closed. The other door has nothing. The instructions clearly list only 1 magnetic catch. I spent a few minutes looking for an extra catch and trying to figure out what keeps the second door closed but came up with nothing. I’ll have to buy a catch for the other door. By the time I had finished with this unit I couldn’t be bothered to do the side tables on Friday.

On Friday night Sue had gone up to watch a film in bed. When I had taken the dogs out I joined her in bed. She was half way through watching Our House. She told me I probably wouldn’t work this one out by starting watching part way through. I thought she was joking.

“We watched this last week.”

“No we didn’t.”

“If you remember, when we had been watching for a few minutes I asked if we had started watching it before as I recognised the early minutes of it. We watched it all the way through.”

“I don’t remember that.”

“Seriously?. The last scene shows a doll that the little girl thought she had left in the old house.”

I don’t know if she didn’t want to see the end of it as if there WAS a doll in the last scene it would prove me right. She said she was tired and wanted to go to sleep.

Anyway, back to Saturday! Not much happened really. I could hear a P.A. system nearby so I thought someone was having a kids party. It was only lunchtime. Once the music started it clearly wasn’t a kids party. It wasn’t until about 3 pm when I took the dogs out that I saw all the cars parked down the street. I wasn’t sure if it was number 4 or number 2 who were having the party. There must have been 10 cars that didn’t belong to residents. While I was out with the dogs I bumped into someone who lives on the next street who had called the police. From his back garden he could see that it was both 4 and 2 who were having a joint party. They had removed a fence panel so that their guests could move between the 2 gardens. He said he had counted at least 40 people there!

When I took the dogs out again at 11 pm the party was still going strong so no police had been out. Apparently it ended around 7am!

Sue is as subtle as a brick sometimes. She asked if we had a tray. I said I didn’t think so. What did she want a tray for? She said she had an idea for something. I guessed that I might be getting breakfast in bed for fathers’ day. She was also asking me what time I was going to take the dogs out on Sunday morning. I told her that I don’t plan it. I just go. I said I probably wouldn’t be taking them out in the morning. I was pretty sure that Michelle and the kids would be bringing me a card and a present but I played dumb.

On Sunday morning I woke around 7 am as usual. Sue was already up. I always get up first and bring her coffee. She came up a few minutes later with a plate full of bacon sandwiches and a huge mug of tea. Nice!

During the morning there was no mention of the kids coming. Michelle is almost as obsessed with time as I am so I knew she would be coming at 9, 10 or 11. Exactly 9, 10 or 11. She isn’t great at getting out of bed on the weekends and as she would have to get the girls ready too I was sure it would be 11.

At 11:01 the doorbell rang. I put on my surprised face and went to open the door. The card and presents were on the door step and the 3 of them were standing near the bottom of the garden. It was the first time we had seen Ella since March. It was great to see her huge smile and to hear her and Ivy shouting Grandad, Grandad! Ivy was a lot happier this time. I think she took her lead from Ella and the 2 of them were chatting to us and doing handstands on the grass and other stuff shouting Grandma watch this! Grandad I can do THIS, can you?

We had a good long chat with them. Towards the end Ivy started to run towards Sue for a hug. Sue told her that she couldn’t hug her which must have been really hard for both of them. Ivy took it well to be fair. Both girls didn’t want to leave and Michelle didn’t have an easy task of getting them into the car.

Hopefully it won’t be much longer before I can hug them again.

Stay safe.

 

I don’t know about you but my favourite way to start the day is to find out that I’m a racist. I know, right? It doesn’t get any better than that. When I wake up the first thing I do it check my phone to see if there were any interesting emails over night. As well as a couple of new signups for the trading guide there was a Youtube comment. It was from my video from last year’s French Open when Thiem was kicked out of the press conference room to make way for Serena.

Mr DMc
You should have posted a follow up to clear up the lies you posted here. Serena did not demand to do a press conference immediately or she would leave. She also DID say “That’s rude” about the organizers displacing Thiem in the main room. I can only surmise you are RACIST like all the other Serena haters. The mere fact this is the only piece you did on the French Open proves my point.. racist, If there was a ledger of all the wrongs perpetrated the tennis “establishment” would far outweigh anything Serena has done. Even the USTA has done worse.

Mr DMc seems to be discounting the 14 other videos that I posted during the tournament. I’m guessing that he isn’t a fan of my work.

You can see the video here along with my reply.

There is a good chance that most of us have binge watched some series or other during lockdown. Mine was The Last Dance about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Sue has watched lots of them. The latest is 13 Reasons Why. She had watched the first 3 series. She likes to watch the same ones that our daughter watches so they can talk about it later (yawn). So when Series 4 came onto Netflix they were on it. She watched the first few episodes and complained that they kept going back over the last series. It was like they were recapping so that you could keep up with the story. She complained to our daughter that it was getting confusing. Michelle told her that yes it was a bit like that but that the last 2 episodes pulled everything together and it made more sense. She asked Sue how many she had seen. Sue replied that she had seen 10 so far so just had 2 left. Michelle was confused as series 4 only has 10 episodes in total. Apparently Sue has been watching series 3 again thinking it was series 4!

She has also been watching these videos from Martin and Bex. They are pretty funny to be fair. Sue had the idea early in lockdown of making some of these videos. Thankfully she isn’t good with technology and couldn’t get tik tok to work.

It’s raining again today. I’ll have a look at a few things to trade. There are a lot of tennis exhibitions on and I’m sure some will be worth a look if the liquidity is OK. The money is being spread quite thinly across all the exhibitions around the world. There are also some good looking football matches this evening. That’s probably going to be my day. We do have a new TV unit being delivered for the bedroom. The old one is too low and one of us often ends up only being able to see part of the screen.

The shed will have to wait for a dry day.

Stay safe.