Friday, 12 July 2013

Thursday 11th Jul

I chuck the bacon on the barbecue this morning. There are a couple of reasons for this. One the barbecue sits outside the kitchen door and is easily fired up, and two it’s less cleaning up for me. I take the view that building up the flavour on the barbecue helps with flavouring the food, and as all we tend to use it for is burgers, sausages, bacon and the odd kebab, the theory works just fine. On another glorious english summers day, it seems wrong not to take advantage.

Around the middle of the day I get to the folks for a cup of tea, to be told there are a couple of jobs they could do with a hand with. Now I have no problem at all helping out, as the ailing one is well on the way to recovery, and will soon be able to do these things again himself. But given that, much like me - and now you know where I get it from - he has never been particularly pro-DIY; I wonder how soon he’ll feel able to resume what he used to do, when the house husband is on tap to help out.

I crack on with the cleaning, with an ever more painful finger which I am due to take to the doctors this afternoon. It’s been hurting on and off for a couple of weeks now, and I see the GP registrar who is very helpful, and advises me it is most likely soft tissue and ligament damage, and prescribes me some gel to rub in. I’ve no idea how I did it, but fingers crossed, not that I can at the moment, it’ll sort itself out. It doesn’t stop me doing the ironing, and making the tea.

The eldest had invited a friend home after school, in this case a boy. Now Mrs P and I are very confused about the whole boy/girl/friend status thing. In our day, it would have been a boyfriend, but lines seem to be more blurred these days. Anyway they disappeared into a room together to chat, and once again we have no idea on what is the etiquette on these things. Suffice to say he is a very well mannered young man and cleared his plate at tea. So I could argue he enjoyed my cooking, or you could say that teenage boys will eat most of anything, as long as there is a lot of it.

Yours looking on the bright side.

Jay

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