Our Weekend Was GOOD! Friday.....

Thanks to the easter holiday I picked Sam up at 1 o'clock on Friday, so the weekend was off to a flyer already. The weather was a bit grey and dis-spiriting, so we didn't do anything amazing. We just had fantastic fun together, as usual, and which is what I want to happen. Stopped off at Tesco on the way home for bread and ham for tomorrow's pickernicker, and also for the chip-shop chips for Chip Butty Night.

It was a bit chilly for proper outside playing so we went for a game of pool at The Woolie - Sam's been making comments like "You know what we haven't done for a long time Daddy....go to The Woolpack!". We'd bought a magazine at Tesco (which Sam has copied my pronunciation in a Greek style of Teskos, a mythical Greek island where they make EVERYTHING) which had a toy on the front called a Flying Wizzer. This was a small frisbee like disk with three angled blades, which fitted on top of a handset with a drawcord, which when pulled spinned the disk around at high speed. As anyone knows, decreased pressure equals increased lift. so the disk zooms upwards. We played with it in The Woolie, and it was great.....then we trespassed onto the grass in front of the college to trial the Wizzer in HI And Cold conditions......it went VERY high indeed.....AND we had an audience from the office workers in the college, so we may have been responsible for a slight dip in productivity for a while. Mind you, education workers, Friday afternoon, they'd be doing sod all anyway! We got back outside the flats and launched again....VERY high again. Then we did one last launch.....the Wizzer skittered onto the roof (flats are 4 stories high), skittered off again, and crash landed in the side access passage of a house. DOH! Trying to set a good example to Sam, we went and knocked at the door to ask permission to get our toy back. A bloke answered the door wearing only y-front pants, and said it was OK.....I opened the gate and Sam retrieved the Wizzer. So.....once only......I asked a man wearing only his pants if I could retrieve my Wizzer from his back passage....

Tea was Chip Butty (therefore easy), and we spent the evening playing and watching a couple of fave telly programmes (50/50 and The Simpsons).

As a seasonal aside, I had purchased two entries in The Woolie's Grand National sweepstake - we got numbers 30 and 37. We looked up which horses the numbers were, then looked at their pictures, and their riders. Sam chose number 30 (Silver Birch) leaving me with 37 (Jack High). Silver Birch's rider was Robert Power.......well! Me and Sam often sing a song by The Tweenies called Penguin Power, where you have to march round in a line, arms by your side but palms pointing out, and heels together but toes pointing out a la penguin. Singing "Penguin power, penguin power, we've got penguin....poooooow-wer!" We changed this to suit Sam's horse's rider, so we spent quite a lot of time waddling round the flat sing "Robert Power, Robert Power, we've got Robert...Poooooow-wer!"

Bathtime was the usual, current wet and drenching, always fab fun.

Then time for A Question Of Sport. This is the defining point of Sam's Friday, when the programme is over, it's bedtime. This week Sam decided to support Matt Dawson's team, and they got whupped. But the show made Sam laugh. Firstly when they ran a "pub race night-style" artificial horserace, with daft names, and Sam watched the team members jumping up and down going crackers as the race got towards the end (note for tomorrow!). Second big laughing time was when Matt Dawson and Ally McCoist had to wear jockey outifits and mount fake horses to try to outride each other in a race. Ally sat the wrong way round on his horse (funny for Sam OK) before the race began. The two of them were bobbing up and down like the clappers and Ally won the race on the line. A good end to a funny show.

Bedtime went so beautifully again, stories, prayer, talk about the day, and about tomorrow, then big hug, big kiss, and night night. Sam was out like a light.

Sleep well, Stinky Face.....

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