Month: July 2009

On Sunday the family group had an indoor sports event. It involved playing football and basketball between the adults and the children. Two hours of fun and running around, with the reminder of the effect of age coming along rapidly.
Playing football and asking the legs to respond and finding they did not do so in quite the way of old. Muscle tweaks here and there followed the next day by buttock and adductor pain and an inability to walk properly.

It was great fun but a reminder to either sort self out or get real.

Maybe I should become a long distance cyclist. Certainly all the bike shops have significant sales on currently.

A novel experience yesterday-going to the cinema for a 1-30 pm viewing. We went to see “In the Loop” which is past of the NZ International Film Festival.
It is a British film which satirises the British and US governments over the initiation of the war.

“British political satire takes on Washington in this lacerating spoof of bureaucratic opportunism. Expanded from Armando Iannucci’s critically-lauded BBC TV series The Thick of It, In the Loop features a virtuoso comic cast with Peter Capaldi already a legend as the PM’s lethally foul-mouthed Director of Comms.”

Sara loved it, while I thought it was merely good.

On Friday we are off to see a Danish film “Flame and Citron”.

So the Amritsar luvvies continue.

Despite it being as far away from Christmas as you can manage and no birthdays to be celebrated, I still have managed to pick up the lurgy.
I assume it is the swine flavour as apparently Wellington is the swine centre of New Zealand, with very high levels of sickness in schools. Eleanor brought this home. Of course Sara had it earlier but fended it off more effectively than I have managed.
So feeling sorry for myself, lying on sofa watching tv and sleeping lots. Had first day off sick in about 2 years-not good when it is day 3 of new job though!

It was on Monday-during Wimbledon fortnight as one would expect. We did not doing anything on the day as Sara had the virus, and anyway, we had already spent up large.