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Date: 04 February 2007 19:29:30
This weekend saw a family get together for Father-in-Law's 70th birthday. This was also the weekend that Stevie Boy Wonder was introducing Auntie Doris to the parents for the first time. Taking this into account, The Beloved and I deliberately set off later than we would have done normally in order to give them a head start. However, we hadn't taken into account the fact that SBW was giving directions, despite his complete lack of anything resembling a sense of direction and his total inability to locate the place where he lived for the first 25 years of his life.
Some time after we had arrived the phone rang and Mother-in-Law answered it. By the "Hello, where are you" we heard from M-i-L, we knew that SBW was on the other end of the phone. After a pause, M-i-L answered "Oh". Just the tone of that "Oh" told us that our two lovebirds were not where they intended to be and that they didn't knmow where they were going. M-i-L started to give directions as to where they should be going which sounded perfectly straightforward to me. When M-i-L started going through the directions for a third time, I realised that somehow it was not getting through. By now, M-i-L was sounding exasperated and insisted on speaking to AD directly in the hope that she might at least be able to follow directions.
When they eventually arrived looking somewhat stressed, AD immediately demanded a cigarette from me. Having (unsuccessfully) given up smoking in the past, I appreciate that the worst thing to do to an ex-smoker is to let thyem have a fag - that's how I fell back down the slippery slope - but she had a mad look in her eyes and was threatening to turn violent, so I'm afraid to say I relented.
OK, so I hold my hands up to a certain extent to being an accessory to the crime, but it didn't stop there and it is my sad duty to report that this weekend, Auntie Doris has been a Very Naughty Girl Indeed as the following picture shows:
Well a marvellous meal was had by all - plenty to eat and drink. AD fitted in with the chaos that is the family very well and, as you'll have seen from AD's blog, the official photographer (Ha!) captured the 4 bloggers in one place.