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Rather a good day today. After hunting in vain in Briz for greenhouse fixings (little plastic thingies that twist into the aluminium frame and support twine/bamboo sticks for plants: a handful came with the greenhouse but nowhere near enough) I rang Almondsbury Garden Centre, who said yes, they had loads. Cue Kai and I heading for Firstday SouthWest bus tickets.
Kai doesn't mind coming shopping with me for unusual things (i.e. not food shopping), and we had a nice couple of hours. He had great fun admiring the water features, I picked up two bags of the fixings (not as strong as the ones I already have, but I have sixty (well, fifty nine) which should do me as I can double them up), and we had lunch in the café. Kai loved the area - there's a wood with all sorts of enticing paths on the way down the hill, and I think he wants to go back with Ken - and on the way back into Briz we drew up a plan for his miniature railway track in the garden, which would actually work rather well. Now we just need the cash...
Leapt off the bus at the top of the Gloucester Road and zigzagged all the charity shops down to the arches - with unusual success. I found a vaguely smart, subdued top that will serve me well, an old but serviceable walkman (the cassette tape kind) for Ken, and two DVDs,
Crocodile Dundee 2, which Kai hadn't seen and which he enjoyed, and
Crash (the Paul Haggis film, not the Cronenberg one. I read about it last night while checking what other films Brendan Fraser was in, and thought it sounded intriguing).
It's just
extraordinary, one of the best films I've ever seen.
Not sure what else to say. It's not an easy film - and probably not even a likeable film - but ye gods it's powerful, intense, and very very good.
'alf-inched from
Dark Roast Blend. Love this one! ->
There are some truly wonderful signs over there.
This one had me in stitches. In fact, the ones I seem to find funniest tend to be mathematical in nature - like
this one. Kai found it first. For a moment we wondered what the answer was - then I found the square root button on my calculator (which led to some hilarity in itself).
Then of course I had to mention dividing by zero. And Kai just had to try it.
(<- I wish I could remember where I found that pic, it's wonderful...)
"I get E." he said, which led to guesses as to what the E could stand for. Eternity? Ecstasy? Elimination? (Because it couldn't possibly be something as boring and mundane as 'error' now, could it?)
Tired now - and busy day tomorrow, trying to sort out a Paypal problem on one the client sites. Oh joy.
Later.
Labels: Almondsbury Garden Centre, films, shopping
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