tues, wed and thurs

Didn't realise it was monday i last did an entry...Doesn't time fly when you are having fun...Not that i have been the week has been same as usual with no excitement...I put on 1 and 1/2 lbs this week <sigh> ...Thought it might have been more due to not eating for at least 3 days last week and not managing to get to the gym so often either...Been to the gym on tues and wed although not today...

Eldest is loving the snowboarding lessons...Do need to buy him new ski gloves though as the fingers are almost through in a hole from falling so much on the astroturf type stuff the slope is made out of...Coloured white of course as it's supposed to be snow <ggg> ...He was really embarrassed yesterday but had a good giggle at same time...Am not supposed to be telling anyone this but as he has told people himself today then i can i think...He doesn't read my journal anyway and it is really funny...As the snowboarding is every day from mon-fri i can't get his salopettes washed and dried for the next day (can't tumble dry them)...So yesterday he put on an old pair of tracky bottoms...I had gone and had a looksy in asda and bought a magazine and went back to the car to read and watch him...After a while near the end of the lesson i noticed he wasn't on the slope so went into the building...Went through to the area where they collect the gear and he was sat there holding his leg....Of course immediate panic started to rush through my head thinking what's he hurt now...One of his teachers who works there said i had to keep away as he was a hazard area...Then i noticed the black and yellow tape all over his thigh...He'd ripped his tracky bottoms from the knee right up on the snowboard...They'd put the tape over the massive tear so protect his modesty LOL...Well i started laffing so much but he was giggling too and so were all the workers...He had his salopettes on today and he will have them on tomorrow too...He's been warned no rips in them as they were expensive...Ok they were half price in a sale but just now they'd cost full price to replace...Today he was managing to do the turns fine without falling so much and hopefully tomorrow he will have passed the level 1 for snowboarding...If he hasn't then at least it won't take much to do once he gets another block...The skiing has done loads of good for his coordination and i think so will the snowboarding...

Daughter went off to leicester this afternoon on the train for the weekend...Have told her to be really carefull of her rucksack etc and if anyone in authority wants to do a search then let them...Phoned to tell her about this afternoons incidents in london :o( ...Am glad the UKYP meeting is not down there or then i would be extremely worried...Do hope she has a good weekend...The lappy she got given is working fine although it has a different version of office on it to mine and doesn't like my version at all...Eldest lad is off out to a friends and youngest is being quiet oh the BLISS!!!!

Was sad to hear that James Doohan died yesterday...For those reading who don't know he was he was the actor who played Scotty in Star Trek...I have always been a huge fan of star trek and at one point i used to go to star trek conventions...Have met a few of the actors from the next generation and also met Walter Koenig who played chekov in the original series...Met him in a pub in edinburgh at a small get together arranged by some fans of babylon 5 which he was also in...Scottys was supposed to be from aberdeen and he sounded nothing like an aberdonian LOL...So see am a sad old git but i don't care cos the conventions were always a good laugh and a great weekend long party :o)

Toodle pip for now tc xx