The Armstrong & Miller Show

Have been to see The Armstrong & Miller Show at the Liverpool Empire tonight.

They did some well good stuff. Did lot's of funny songs, jokes 'n shit. (Sorry, badly influenced by street-talking RAF pilots).
Enjoyed them so much that we bought a tea towel!

First time with a hired baby-sitter for our two boys tonight. I think that they may have been replaced by alien pod-people as exceptionally good behaviour was reported.

Birthday Trip

It was Frodo's 9th Birthday at the end of August, so for a Birthday treat we arranged a trip to London. We stayed in a hotel beside Gloucester Road Tube allowing us to do the 'tourist thing' with the boys, and take them to see the sights.

The big Birthday surprise on the day was a "flight" on The London Eye, which, as expected, gave us a fantastic view. We got out of the tube station at Westminster and we're staring up at Big Ben, when a passing policeman said to us with a wink "Have you got the time?"

Also during our visit we did the Natural History Museum / Geology Museum, (about 5 minutes walk from the hotel), an Open Top Bus Ride, and a River Trip. We saw Mediaeval Combat at Tower Hill. Mooched around Harrods and Selfridges and Hamleys. Frodo was accosted by Pirates in Hamleys, who spotted his Birthday Badge. They took him at swordpoint to a plinth outside the store, and had the people on Regent Street sing "Happy Birthday" to him. A large AT-AT was purchased from Hamleys, and some new style Daleks with infra-red combat action from Forbidden Planet. He'd already opened his "Amy Pond" action figure in the morning.

We managed to visit one set of friends, and also met up with another bunch, which was great. (Apologies to all of our other pals who live down that way, but not enough time to see everyone and do the whirlwind holiday tour).

Here's a few photos from the holiday.

Sad Friday

Last night I was going to post a few holiday photos from a couple of weeks ago, but didn't get around to it, and currently not in the mood as I received some awful news that a good friend died last month. I wasn't even aware that they were ill as they'd kept private about their sudden serious illness.
I'm glad that I met up with them again last year - didn't know that it was going to be for the last time.