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Date: 16 January 2007 15:04:55
I had a weekend.
It's often felt lately as if the weekend has just been cancelled. Too many things going on, none of which I particularly wanted to do (for myself; I mean they were mostly done for other peoples' sakes, primarily my kids), the weekend has just past by leaving me washed up on Monday's shore. But this weekend, by accident rather than design, was completely the opposite. On Friday night I went to a gig to see a great couple of Rickenbackers. Oh, and a pretty good band. On Saturday I spent the day out on the hills, or at least the nearest thing to hills available locally. It was soaking but great despite that. And particularly good was the feeling of being far less unfit than I feared - the climbing felt effortless and I felt I could easily have both climbed and walked for a lot longer. This was enhanced by not having any aches or pains afterwards (in stark contrast to the football game I let myself get talked into two weeks ago from which I had only just recovered). On Sunday church in the morning was a little bit fraught, but not too bad, and in the afternoon a good friend kindly looked after the kids while we popped out to buy some stuff for a DIY project I'm working on. That might not sound so great, but one of the last projects I had to do was replacing the handrail on our staircase. These come in 8' and 12' lengths and since our rail was 8'2" long I had to get the 12' length. Which entailed me walking to the shop and walking the two miles home carrying a 12' length of wood. And if I'd needed anything else for that project it would have necessitated another trip. So in comparison, being able to pop in the car with wife but no kids, and load it up with whatever stuff we needed and then just drive home was a luxury. Then in the evening we had a little bit of entertainment laid on by Airdrie. Okay, so it wasn't intentional, but it was hugely entertaining. Jedburgh had to go out. After announcing that she was getting ready to go, Airdrie asks: "what coat will you wear?" Jedburgh says: "I think I'll wear a warm coat". Airdrie says, imperiously: "I shall help you choose". At this point I nearly lost it - something about the tone just cracked me up. But then Airdrie said "I wonder what Dad's laughing at" and I lost it completely. It felt mean to have to answer "I'm laughing at you" so I'm afraid I just kept on laughing and didn't answer.
So, a weekend of live music, hillwalking, DIY, and laughing with the kids - that's a pretty good weekend in my book.