Trains, babies, destruction and parents
Oct. 3rd, 2007 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgTrains
Was handed a pamphlet at the train station today on"Preparing for the Apolcalyse: A Guide" "Your Guide to the Shutdown".
It's an impressive exercise in spin, suggesting that this is an "opportunity" to take a holiday (for god's sake just stay away), get fit (walk or cycle to work), see more of your friends (car pool, or my personal favourite suggestion "move in with a friend who lives closer to your workplace"), or "catch up on your work without disruptions" (i.e. telecommute during school holidays so naturally there'll be no disruptions at home).
Babies
Went to the folks today for a bit more baby dove watching. They're very close to fledging, and I saw the elder flutter a few inches from a beam to land squarely on his/her sibling. They then both had a little rest so I decided to have a snooze too.
Two hours later...
Destruction
Joined Mum in supervising a cement truck reversing along the neighbour's side of the brand new (but dodgy) fence. Attempting to reverse, I should say, as the access was long and narrow and the truck kept trying to angle away from the fence (in reverse) without wiping it out with the front corner of the cab. Every now and then one of the wheels would mount the low limestone retaining wall (damage report pending), and later we discovered that it had taken out the neighbour's water meter.
The kicker for my folks and the neighbour was that the cement truck was there to do work on the house behind the neighbour's, because they don't have any street access. Oops. It's an impressive renovation that spreads the chaos to three different houses.
Parents
Dad's in bed with a chesty cough, picked up at the doctor's surgery while visiting for something else. I heard the same cough many times on the train this morning, so it looks like it's Going Around. He's on antibiotics and hot lemon-and-honey drinks.
I left Mum working on a 5 star sudoko (with apparent success and certainly well described strategy). Yesterday she took her two teenaged granddaughters to the Egyptian exhibition at the gallery and left them exhausted. They both fell asleep as soon as they got near a flat surface, but she was full of beans. She's 71. If it weren't for a variety of other obvious genetic markers I would have said I was adopted, and that she was an immortal (vampire?) or an alien.
Was handed a pamphlet at the train station today on
It's an impressive exercise in spin, suggesting that this is an "opportunity" to take a holiday (for god's sake just stay away), get fit (walk or cycle to work), see more of your friends (car pool, or my personal favourite suggestion "move in with a friend who lives closer to your workplace"), or "catch up on your work without disruptions" (i.e. telecommute during school holidays so naturally there'll be no disruptions at home).
Babies
Went to the folks today for a bit more baby dove watching. They're very close to fledging, and I saw the elder flutter a few inches from a beam to land squarely on his/her sibling. They then both had a little rest so I decided to have a snooze too.
Two hours later...
Destruction
Joined Mum in supervising a cement truck reversing along the neighbour's side of the brand new (but dodgy) fence. Attempting to reverse, I should say, as the access was long and narrow and the truck kept trying to angle away from the fence (in reverse) without wiping it out with the front corner of the cab. Every now and then one of the wheels would mount the low limestone retaining wall (damage report pending), and later we discovered that it had taken out the neighbour's water meter.
The kicker for my folks and the neighbour was that the cement truck was there to do work on the house behind the neighbour's, because they don't have any street access. Oops. It's an impressive renovation that spreads the chaos to three different houses.
Parents
Dad's in bed with a chesty cough, picked up at the doctor's surgery while visiting for something else. I heard the same cough many times on the train this morning, so it looks like it's Going Around. He's on antibiotics and hot lemon-and-honey drinks.
I left Mum working on a 5 star sudoko (with apparent success and certainly well described strategy). Yesterday she took her two teenaged granddaughters to the Egyptian exhibition at the gallery and left them exhausted. They both fell asleep as soon as they got near a flat surface, but she was full of beans. She's 71. If it weren't for a variety of other obvious genetic markers I would have said I was adopted, and that she was an immortal (vampire?) or an alien.
