Slow start to the morning with a very prolonged breakfasting of the running buffet variety. I got several loads of washing done and pegged out and a mammoth tower of clean stuff put away with assistance in sock matching from Davies :). Scarlett has been in bad humour all day and had plenty of ‘moments’ which unfortunately she continued with pretty much all day. It has culminated in an hours screaming with clutching at her stomach having gulped down two cups of lucozade on a pretty much otherwise empty stomach. I’m putting money on trapped wind and she is now sleeping peacefully but I did have my Mum on standby to sweep in and mind Davies while Ady and I rushed her to hospital at one point 🙁 Hopefully she’ll remain asleep and wake in better form tomorrow. I have been intolerant and impatient with her in equal amounts which retrospectively didn’t actually shape the day as much as I was sighing about earlier as when I sat down to start blogging I recalled all sorts of nice bits inbetween.
Having listened to the Shrek soundtrack pretty much nonstop for the last few days I got a new batch of cds from work yesterday including Disney’s Greatest Hits and The Proclaimers Greatest Hits (as inspired by I’m On My Way from the Shrek soundtrack). We listened to The Proclaimers first with me singing along to all the ones I knew (that’d be 500 miles, Letter from America and On My Way then 🙂 ) and then listening to their version of King Of The Road in utter delight telling the children what a wonderful spin they’d put on such a classic and speculating on what a great job they’d do on other songs. By the time we’d arrived at Ali’s I’d compiled a fantasy cover versions selection for them including Kylie’s I’m Spinning Around, a whole host of the Disney songs we’d been listening to and more. I’ve since decided that what would be totally fantastic would be a whole album full of cover versions of pop songs sung by artists with very strong regional accents although Proclaimers remain my favourites – can you imagine it? Proclaimers sing songs by Steps, Abba, Oasis, Elvis, The Spice Girls, The Beach Boys and Tina Turner. It’d be great :).
We had a nice time at Ali’s although Tarly took some rubbing along with I think it was mostly me that had to deal with that. Davies enjoyed playing a Labyrinth game which looked a bit fab and then X box – the highlight of that being that J was home and sat talking him through lots of it and explaining it to him as he went. There was a point when he was sat between Ali and J on the sofa playing a game when he looked in heaven at the adult attention 🙂 Ady’s xboxing begins and ends with the racing car games and mine was eclipsed by Davies on about week two of us getting it (quite liked the Wii though 😉 ) so he enjoyed getting some coaching by someone other than Elijah who has been his greatest mentor to this point. 🙂
On the way home we played ‘name that film’ with the Disney album, we’re a bit weak on the Princessy films and the Tarzan / Lion King type stuff but Davies was shit hot on the Peter Pan / Toy Story / Monsters Inc stuff getting it within the opening bar most of the time.
We got home and I cooked them some tea then Ady and my Mum both appeared together so we had a nice half an hour or so before Tarly went rapidly downhill. Now I’m about to have a bath followed by a dinner I haven’t cooked (novelty to that these last two weeks!) and a watch of Click, which may or may not live up to it’s hype laden front cover.
It was so nice to see you and to be well enough to see you. Poor Tarly, hope she feels better soon. F was telling us how ‘I gave her this I gave her that, cos she wasn’t very happy and I’m all kind and grown-up’ blah blah. Davies was exemplary though, again.
I recently found a guy performing ‘Hallelujah’ on youtube, playing it as if he was Chas’n’Dave banging it out in a one two stylee on the old joanna in his local. Imagine the Proclaimers would do a great job of that one.
See you Monday.
Comment by Ali — 09 March 2007 @ 11:42 pm
Lol – me and A have been having a ‘flick through the music channels seeing who can guess the band, song title and year first’ Friday (as our film watching was cut short by Scarlett: The Return and Scarlett: She’s back type sequels and saw loads of ‘vs’ type vids.
So how about Proclaimers Vs Chas and Dave singing Lady In Red?
Comment by Nic — 09 March 2007 @ 11:46 pm