It's too hot

It's crazily hot today.  So hot that the thought of going home on the tube just sounds like an absolute nightmare.  As an Englishman I feel compelled to complain about everything, and now the weather has warmed up a bit, I feel it is only right to moan about it!

However,  it is payday,  and I may stop off at Next (right by our office) and buy some shorts for the journey home.

So what has happened this week.  hmmm.  Not a great deal.  The dog, as ever, has got bigger.  George is now fully into potty "training".  Not that it takes much training.  He hasn't been doing lots of practise poos leading up to the main event or anything,  he's just now wearing pants,  and we ask him if he needs his potty every thirty seconds.

We went to a parent's evening at his nursery this week.  I wasn't really sure what to expect.  I half thought they were going to sit us down and discuss George's progress,  and I would be sat there with a surreal expression on my face thinking "What are you talking about he's only 2".  Another possibility was that they would just invite all the parents along,  put on some cheap wine and just let everyone brag about how much more important there job is than everybody else's.  When we got there it turned out to be a bit of a non-event.  We lingered a little before one of the Nursery Assistants (or whatever they're called) came over to us and showed us around.  After that we lingered for a bit more and then cleared off down to the pub.

I've not really done a great deal else this week.  I went swimming three times as I always do,  Sarah had a haircut,  I went to work, Sarah stayed at home, the world turned and we didn't fall off.

Sleep has been a little odd this week.  I don't think we've had a whole, uninterrupted nights rest once this week.  As a result I now feel completely drained.  What's more,  it'll not be any different this weekend.  I blame the heat!!

Happy Anniversary!!!

Hello again. 

It's Anniversatry week for Sarah and I and also for Mum and Dad.  HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MUM AND DAD!!!

It's Wednesday already.  Sorry about not posting on Friday but I'm a little busy. 

We have had a pretty good week (and a half.)  The dog is getting considerably bigger now.  He can hold his own against George.  This usually means that George starts playing rough with Barney,  Barney says to himself,  "sure I can do play fighting" and George starts crying.  I'm sure that eventually George'll figure out that the dog is getting bigger and stronger at a much quicker rate than he is,  but for now,  he hasn't.

We had a nice Anniversary.  Didn't do a great deal as it was a regular work day, but it was nice all the same.  We put George to bed early, shared a bottle of wine and had a nice relaxing evening.

We didn't get up to much at the weekend.  The weather wasn't particularly good and we didn't have a many ideas.  So we just stayed in.

Other than that,  a quiet week. 

Oh well,  back to work.

The week.

Well here we are again, another Friday. The weeks just fly by don't they.

This week has been good fun. Apart from being woken up by George at 6.00am for 3 days of the week and Barney for the other 4, it has been a nice week.

We managed to get out for a drink on Wednesday night, to the local. We had a spot of food and George ran around in the beer garden (That's a strange expression isn't it. If a Rose Garden is a garden full of roses and a Water Garden is a garden full of water...).

I have been training Barney to sit and shake a paw, and trying in vain to get him to fetch. He does the sitting stuff easily enough but whenever I throw one of his toys he legs after it and then just lies down with it and chews it to death.

I am quite happy that the weather has got a bit cooler. The hot weather means that you can't wear jeans, and when you have a puppy with a mouth full of needle sharp teeth you need some serious leg protection. His biting is lessening off now, but the sooner those teeth fall out the better.

George has been doing the usual routine, a bit like me. I go to work, he goes to Nursery. We have asked them to try and limit the amount of sleep he has in the day because he is up all night otherwise. Then he is woken early by the dog and he is really tired and iritable.

The garden is coming along nicely. I decided that it was time to go container mad. With a dog and a small child running around there is a need for semi-permanence that the container brings. I have been buying up all the cheap plants from B&Q and sticking them in the plastic pots they sell. I did buy a couple of the proper clay ones, but I was speaking to a lady in there and she said that not only were the plastic ones far cheaper and just as visually pleasing, but the clay ones had a tendancy to crack if the frost got to them. Seems to me that plastic is the way forward. The plants I have been getting look virtually dead, hence the cheap prices, but with a bit of dead-heading, watering and feeding, they spring to life. I have put together a couple of hanging baskets, and re-invigorated the big wooden barrles outside the front of the house by filling them with any leftover plants I have. I am testing a few different types of plants down the wall by our drive. There is not much sunshine there so I am giving the "Shade Loving" plants a go. It really is starting to look nice. All I need to do now is to train Sarah to water them all occasionally....

Well, I better go and do some work. I'll write soon.

Rich.