17th Wedding Anniversary – A troubled cold and breezy day of equipment and personal failures with more progress later and then an evening family cinema trip to see ‘Back to the Future’ with extra friends of Daniel as Martin McGuiness is arrested with 17 others
Not a brilliant night again. This time the heating relays and boilers were resonating and beating to keep me awake. The electricians had only done a temporary job and will return to sort them out soon. Morning tea and then breakfast and I apologise to Di for not getting her a card (often she forgets). My Mum and Dad’s present was an egg stand/ornament, which I think is fun, but hardly practical as you keep eggs in the fridge these days. Di hates ornaments, but is gradually collecting them as she hates facing up to disappointed donors even more! Di goes out shopping after breakfast, while I struggle on with my alarm circuits and look after the children to boot. To cap that, Della does a dirty nappy and I have to change it and then Debbie falls off a chair and hits my eye with her head as I try to console her, giving me a black eye. Diana back later, coffee, and then we all go out to lunch at the Little Chef as our normal Saturday treat.
Di tells me that despite this morning’s tribulations, she forgot to buy any butter. Grgh! The river is now ebbing and flowing, but weather still freezing as I feed the doves and ducks. The afternoon fitting my exit/entry circuit. I had put in the chub mortise lock last night, after much drilling and chiseling, but I had to recess the cable into the door, frame and wall and connect it up with another door sensor and the alarm. A chilly job, as a very cold northern wind was blasting through the door each time I opened it. Then to fill the channels with polyfilla and clear up in time for tonight’s outing. We had planned a cinema trip to celebrate our anniversary and Di had chosen ‘Back to the Future’ as the film to see. As it was a film that would suit Daniel as well and he wanted to take some friends, it ended up with our Jaguar crammed with six of us, including Steve, Paul and Gary. A good film – both wonderful and funny, and we all enjoyed it, although it meant yet another late night. £10 for Joan and Pete to babysit and then, after dropping all the boys off home, straight to bed. The news still full of the terrorist outrages, but also Sein Fein’s Martin McGuinness is also arrested with 17 others.