Trx has a friend with kids the same age as two of ours.
She came to visit this afternoon.
Get on well - she's really nice.

This friend has a friend. Her friend is married and has two daughters, one of whom is the same age as oour sons.
With me so far?

This friend's friend (who I shall call Sarah, because that's her name…) has a husband, who went fishingat a lake about 10 miles from here last weekend. Nothing odd there. He does it often.
As evening approaches, he starts to feel hungry but has no food with him.
He phones his wife (Sarah). Neither Sarah nor the fisherman drive and have no car.
Sarah 'pops round' to our friend's house and asks if she will take her, in their car, to KFC to buy some tea for her husband, the fisherman.

????

She agrees (I know…) but when they arrive at the KFC locally it is shut for no reason. So Sarah phone sher husabnd to ask what he would like instead.

?????

They drive to McDonald's and then out to the lake, arriving about an hour after the first phone call. When they arrive the husband is no longer hungry becasue his mate (who has a car) went and 'picked somethng up'.
However

??????

Could they just pop to the cash point to pick up some money to pay his mate for his dinner?

1. Why go fishing without taking food?
2. Why expect your wife to help when you know she has no transport?
3. How can you ask a friend, with young kids at home, to do this kind of favour?
4. Why do this kind of favour?
5. Why not ring back to say it's OK, you have got something to eat?
6. Why not wait and owe your mate a few quid until you have it?

Do I live in the real World at all??

This bloody page has cut out on me twice.

I feel very uninspired at the moment.
Nothing's changed and I don't really understand why, so it's probably just Wild Mood Swings.
But it scares me when I feel empty.

How can the whole internet be so boring?
I have no music I want to hear.
Just spent a productive hour playing the five jingles from John that make up 'Musique d'Ameublement" and workig out which ones belong to the cassette, LP and CD of From Brussels With Love. Sorted now, and written down for the definitve discography later.
Have discovered that he is down to play two gigs in Italy on Dec 1 and Dec 2 but it seems no-one in the UK has 'announced' this so I'm not going to put it on the firum.
I can find out like that, so can everyone else.
Interesting though that even Malins hasn't released the news - is he started to get left out of the loop as well now?

The book I am reading (HP and the Order of the Phoenix) hasn't been opened for a few days and doesn't fill me with enthusiasm.
Seems to be very well written though and follows on from Prisoner of Azkaban - so what is the Goblet of Fire all about??

Watched the film of Azkaban last week with Flo and enjoyed it again. I understand the plot now too, which I couldn't when I first read the book. It seems to me that it is in this book that JKR starts to introduce later storylines and 'plans ahead' for the first time in the series. Moving more towards literature than before, which is no bad thing.
Watching the DVD tho I remember the first time I saw the film in the cinema with Biscuit, and how uncomfortable I felt watching Emma Watson. She is really gorgeous in that film, and HG suddenly stopped being a whinging precocious b*tch.

I felt just as awkward with it this time round too, and I am wondering how much that worries me?

Sometimes I am reminded of the fragile state of my humanity. I scare myself.

Pictures, I've got pictures
And I run them in my head
When I can't sleep at night

It's a sign I need to pull things in.
Look Above to find strength within.

…Let there be Light