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05/04/2008 by Andy C.

Lovely few days we have had here nice and warm and sunny and tomorrow we have snow forecast again! Thursday was a cracking day we made the most of the sun and headed out for the zoo catching a nice pub meal first. Ash did his usual trick and hit the salad cart and filled his bowl up with garlic croutons, he will have the breath of death tomorrow!  Now we haven’t been for years Fern and Ash loved it so did I, me and Fern found this small monkey with a wonky tooth he was looking all sorry for himself and was sat right up close to the glass. Then all hell broke loose, now this monkey was not your most exciting monkey all brown and black till he opened his legs I tell you his podz where the brightest blue I have ever seen, it honestly looked like some one had done it with a spray can. Well the child in me took over and I was on the floor with laughter, quickly joined by Fern and then Ash who was completely beside himself. I looked up and saw Maria who was looking on in a mixture of disbelief and complete embarrassment this made it even funner for me at least. She really must love me to put up with that, I cant change but I do appreciate her for her tolerance sometimes. Oj came over in the eve and we started to pull things together for the live stuff we are doing later in the year, so far we have one date confirmed at the awakenings series of concerts this year it is in Burton On Trent in a school but it does look like a superb hall. We are playing with David Hughes who is a good mate who has helped me out no end in the 7 years I have been doing The Glimmer Room thing. We have only met once in the real world and missed each other by a day at last years HJ, but it will be nice to be able to thank him in person for the help and also endless enthusiasm, really one of the good blokes is David. What did I do yesterday waited in for Mr No Show plumber who called over a hour after he was due to put us off till Sat, then I took the kids to the play ground to let off some steam. They played for 2 hours longer than any other children that where there, so I just sat in the sun and watched the world go by for a few hours, bliss. At one point there was a girl who goes to pre-school there and she came over to see me, which was a bit weired as she was with her dad and I just hoped he knew who I was or else I see a situation brewing. I just kept is short and suggested she go play football with her dad. He must have known who I was because he said hi a few min’s later which came as a relief. Just as they where going she came over and gave me the stick she had been playing with because “I did’t have anything to play with”, priceless The plumber finally came today Pete was right and we will be getting a new pump and he did not notice or ask about the dents in it so I got away with that one. Hope we have a nice summer this years as Maria found us a bargain we have got ourselves a three seat swinging chair for the garden for £65 inc delivery, I can see those summer eve’s now chilling in out nice new swinging chair never had one of those before Well I am off to put my bread in the oven so it is ready to eat at 6:20 Dr Who is coming back on and Ash particualy is getting really excited about it, truth be told so am I.

music played:

Mooch - 1967 1/2

Vic Twenty - old web downloads

Mike Oldfield - songs of distant earth

Sigur Ros - 1st album

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