Busy Weekend

Swimming with Samwise on Saturday morning, who's still throwing himself into the big pool and expecting me to catch him. Like Frodo he swims better out of his depth, but can't do it without assistance yet - he kicks his legs, but doesn't move his arms much so ends up rolling in the water.

Visited Borders bookshop to buy the O'Reilly DBA pocketfor me and The Hippo-Not-Amus for Samwise, as well as a birthday present.

Frodo had another sports party on Saturday afternoon, so two hours of helping out with this.

Whizzed the hobbits around to Grandma Gandalf's and then headed back home again so that we could catch a bus into town to meet up with impworks and another member of "Write Club" at Weatherspoons, followed by an Eyetie meal at the Casa d'Italia restaurant on Stanley Street. Food was tasty, and the waiter can be forgiven for giving me ice-cream instead of cream with my banoffee pie - since the ice-cream was delicious.

Finished off with a beer in The Head of Steam then a taxi home.

We both fell asleep in the front room, each on our own settees.
Novelist Supermum found her way upstairs to bed before I did.

I woke at 02:30 am to the sounds of Judas Priest on TOTP2 bashing out "Living after Midnight". Unlike Rob Halford and Co I was too tired to stay up "Rockin' till the dawn" and "Lovin' 'till the morning" was definitely out so went up to bed and crashed.

This morning was another trip to take all of the scrap wood and other junk that I'd found stored under the roof in our soon to be demolished garage/garden shed.

Round to Grandma Gandalf's this afternoon and retrieved the hobbits.

Just finished updating Novelist Supermum's website www.romancefiction.co.uk with the ' as published' excerpts from her books, plus some other updates. Buying Mackenzie's Baby is still at Number 1 in her publishers (Samhain) best sellers list. Must be the well-constructed website that's helping to keep it there ;-)