[bemused] There's something awfully cute about taking your son shopping for school
stuff and having him insist on choosing it himself. Of course, we ended up buying a 12 inch
Animal (site is Flash) pencil case at twice the price of the others, a nifty rich blue pencil sharpener (the enclosed sort that catches all the shavings) and a flippy-flexible 12 inch ruler, but he's happy with it all (it's 'cool'), and at least the fountain pen/rollerball set was a cheap Berol. And the shop (
Woolworth's) had 75p economy, short, white and most importantly
logoless sports socks as well, so we were both happy.
He was great for the whole day, actually, not complaining in the least about anything (normally he hates shopping, even for himself), and we managed to get his football boots, and school shoes (from
Clarks) as well as all the stationery.
We'd planned to get up to the Korean supermarket but the Gloucester Rd was gridlocked, so we gave up on that and went up to
Forbidden Planet instead.
Stopped at Brandon Hill for a late lunch, where the squirrel came to investigate what we were eating and was very happy to accept bits of bread from Kai's roll. Sprog charged around for a bit while I rested - legs aching by the time we'd done everything.
All in all it was a very successful day. We managed to pick up
Fruits Basket 6 and 7 (which, I've just discovered on going to grab them to read while I run a scan, sprog has taken up to bed with him the cheeky little brat), and I found this small but beautiful Sephiroth figure (no Vincent, unfortunately) which I couldn't resist.
In other news...
Forgot to mention I was so impressed with the new version of
ewido I bought it when the trial period ran out. Peace of mind for 42 pence a week? Oh yes. Also intend evaluating MailWasherPro this week - I am so
sick of spam. It's increasing again - up to about 300 pieces of crap a day, the bulk of it from spoofed yahoo addresses (got so bad I've set up a filter to reply with a message and then delete, so if anyone's sent me a legit email from any yahoo addie I won't have received it). If the software's as good as it looks I shall buy that too.
There's a new version of
Alchemy Mindworks GIF Construction Set Professional available. I've been using the old version since 1999, and always found it sturdy and stable, so have bought version 3 (half price because I had v2). It's been a while since I've done any animations: it might be fun to try some again... Now there's a thought - an animation of Jaid (from
SirenSong) would be interesting to attempt...
Ken had a hospital appointment last week - we're now waiting for the results of his latest blood test.
And lastly (I should have mentioned this last week but kept forgetting): Kai had a
New Forest ice cream while out with Adrian on holiday, strawberry flavoured with strawberry ripple. He thoroughly enjoyed it - but the instruction on the lid had him laughing. "Store below -18C Gluten Free Not Suitable for Unsupervised Children"... [blink] Huh? We're talking
ice cream, not bloody hydrochloric acid! Is this the nanny state gone to extremes?
Actually, we decided it must be because it comes with a small spoon under the lid. Danger of choking I suppose. Doesn't stop it sounding plain daft though!
I'm knackered again. Having a
really early night tonight, and carrying on reading Dawkins. Still have to get white trainers with white soles for Kai, so taking him over to Avon Meads tomorrow morning to see if I can get some at
JJB Sports. I think I shall be glad when the term starts and I can establish some sort of routine again, I've managed sod-all writing this last month, and you
know how grumpy
that leaves me...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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