Today I have been stretching my brain, and almost remembering what it’s like to work for a living. I’ve been poking at a problem or two on and off for weeks now, and today I sat down and spent several hours at it. It felt good to tussle with something other than what was for tea, if a little disheartening at how long it took me to get my head round what should be simple concepts. But there you go.
And then I put it all away, put pizza dough on, made popcorn (twice, burnt the first lot, sigh) and we sat down as a family to watch Crocodile Dundee.
It was not a resounding success. In fact, Small boycotted it after about 20 minutes and returned to his computer, which I found slightly upsetting. Tim and I decided we need to plan this a little more carefully and possibly splash out £1 or so a week getting a film from Blockbuster that will suit us all instead of relying on there being something we can record during the week. Big however thought it was hilarious, so at least some part of the family was happy. There’s a little bad language that I’d forgotten, but nothing too OTT, though I’d definitely censored the somewhat high cut swimming costume from my mind since last watching it! If either of those is an issue for you, you may want to skip this for now. There’s also a variety of slightly odd situations around prostitutes, some violence (though nothing compared to your standard superhero movie) and a bit of waving around of large knives. Mostly though, it’s just funny.
(Smallest was just being adorable, irritating and bouncy throughout. I think she enjoys having all of us there to pester, and I know she loves the popcorn. The flickering images are of little interest as they don’t feature Noddy, Bob or Mike the Knight 😉 )
And then Big and I put together pizza – it works so much better when she helps. And I found some measure of achievement in washing up while it cooked, doing it mindfully, as described in the link Tech left on the previous post. (Who’d have thought that experiencing a sponge in water could make washing up more interesting? But it did. To the extent that I even turned the radio off so I could experience it better.) The meal was finished off with the second half of reduced price chocolate brownie pudding (gotta love the reduced shelf at the local coop) and icecream.
Children into bed, Smallest asleep before ten! and older two listening to Hitchhiker’s guide. We’re trying to wean Big off endless repeats of Harry Potter – there’s only so much Stephen Fry I can take. And then I’ve done a little more work and now to bed myself I think.
Film recommendations as always gratefully accepted 🙂 Given up on the linky as no one was linking…
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