Bad Dad Day!

Today I wasn’t the best dad in the world. I didn’t feel up to in and so didn’t pay enough attention to Jon and wasn’t especialy happy. Georgina kept reminding me how poor I was towards Jon too which has made me notice it more. Today wasn’t an particularly bad day – I didn’t lose my temper for instance. I also enjoyed Jon’s bathtime, but I wasn’t really “with the programme” for most of the day and didn’t expecially want to do anything. I certainly wasn’t able to give Jon the full complete attention that he really enjoys today. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Sponge Pudding

Georgina made a really nice sponge pudding this evening for us to enjoy with our Bird’s Custard. Very very nice and it was a “store cupboard” recipe which was supposed to mean that we’d have all the ingredients in stock…

Not us.

We didn’t have any milk of all things… *sigh*

Imaginative Spam!

Received this today:

From: <admin@bankofengland.co.uk>

Subject: security notification

To: <robng@the-allens.net>

Dear customer,

The security of your personal and account information is extremely important to us. By practicing good security habits, you can help us ensure that your private information is protected. Please install our special software, that will remove all the keyloggers and backdoors from your computer.

And will help us to prevent credit card fraud in future.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Bank of England

[ An attachment, application/x-msdownload: antikeylog2004.exe : data size 3kb, was included here ]

Definitely more imagination than normal, still spam though and I won’t be running their program!

Busy!

We’ve been really busy today. The main goal of the day was to take a lot of the stuff in the garage down to the dump to get rid of it and we acheived it! I’ve also tidied up in the garage a bit, so that the mountain of boxes to unpack now looks more like a hillock…

The Sales!

We’ve been shopping in the sales and have bought a sofabed and matching chair for a smidgen under £900! Seems to be reasonable quality and does mean that we can have people to stay overnight now that we’ve lost the spare room. The spare room has to go as Jon needs a room and we want to use his current room as the nursery for BabyX, so a sofabed seemed the obvious solution. However as Georgina is very pregnant, our guests can sleep on the sofa!

Car

As we had work Christmas lunch on Friday, I left my car at work to collect over the weekend. When we went to pick it up on Sunday we discovered that they lock the gates to the car park…

As a result, Georgina and Jon gave me a lift to work this morning and got to see the office. Jon liked being at work and had to be bribed with the promise of a snack when he got home in order to persuade him to leave! I had a nasty shock when I left for home at the end of the day and discovered that the car wouldn’t start. A little bit of thought meant that I was sure the battery was ok (radio worked, along with headlights). I decided it was probably the immobiliser, and so I spent 5 mins opening and closing the car central locking with the radio buttons which seemed to work! *phew*

Traditions

We don’t have a lot in the way of Christmas traditions here in the-allens household. One we do have is that we watch The Muppets Christmas Carol every year which marks the start of Christmas for us.

This year, Jon watched with us and seemed to enjoy the bits he paid attention to. Rather oddly he found the jolly giant Ghost of Christmas Present to be quite scary whilst he took the intimidating Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come in his stride.

Odd child.