Worried...

Hopefully I am just being a silly worry-wort, but I can't stay silent any longer.

Has anyone heard from Danielle (Sitting in Silence) recently?

She as been very quiet for a few days, and I am concerned that she might have been affected by the huge bush fires that have been raging in what I think is roughly her part of Australia.

I hope she is just having a great time at the beach or doing something more important than blogging, but every time I see the news I worry.

Snippets

This morning I went to feed my mom's pony and couldn't find the bucket that we put his oats and stuff in.

"Where is your bucket?" I asked.

Thud, thud. Humphrey was kicking the bucket into view...


Custard was a little ill over the weekend, having runny poop. He utterly refuses to go in our garden, he just sits and whines to go for a walk. I was out with him at 1am on Sunday morning. As reward for being such a good dog (not doing his stuff in the house or in our garden, saving it for the rough field nearby) my wife found a medal for him - a gold medal on a red, white and blue ribbon, which she hung around his neck. He now wears it all of the time he is at home, letting us take it off when we go out and then sitting while we put it back on when we get back home. I tried it on once, but he got very upset with me.


Son: "I'm going to have a bath."

Daughter: "Try something new today!" (This is the catchphrase for Jaimie Oliver's ads that he is doing for a UK supermarket chain.)


I have volunteered to take part in some experiments at the Uni. Tomorrow night I am having my brainwaves monitored. I have got a vision of the guys thinking that the equipment is broken when they can't pick anything up!


Hope you are having a good week!

Rubber duckie,you're the one!

The other day, my youngest was looking through the Guinness Book of Records, as he likes to do, when he found an entry about the biggest rubber duck in the world:

It is 82 feet tall!

Isn't that amazing?

I also thought of a wonderful use for it or others like it. It could be used instead of Rehab clinics. Just think, instead of months of slow painful withdrawl from drugs you could just take someone to see this and they would never want to touch the stuff again!

Any other suggested uses for am 82 foot tall rubber duck?

Getting ready for Summer!

Well, I have decided.

As I look around at different blogs I can see that a number of people, especially the girls, are working on looking good for the summer. Weight is being lost, waists and butts are shrinking (or in one case seemingly developing for the first time), it is all very impressive.

So I have decided.

I am going to start doing short workouts to develop my summer body.

I know, you are all wondering how on earth I am going to improve on utter perfection, and I am also thinking that I am in for a tough ride :-)

But I just think that it has to be done this year. It won't be anything drastic - my major exercise is the cycling - just starting with the usual sit ups and push ups, maybe the odd session with my pre-historic Bullworker, and see what happens.

I wonder if and when Mrs RC will notice?

Updates will follow...

The Answers

Well here are the answers to my Name that Movie quiz!

1 - "Never give up! Never surrender!"

Galaxy Quest.



2 - "If it bleeds, we can kill it!"

Predator!



3 - "I just threw up in my mouth a little bit."

Dodgeball



4 - "I know this ship like the back of my hand."

One of the Star Trek movies - can't find a suitable clip, but Scotty the engineer says the line above, turns and walks into an overhead beam. Classic stuff!

5 - "Yippie kayay mother-$%&*£$!"

I think everyone knew this one!



6 - "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine?"

Amazingly, everyone except the winner seemed to know that this was from A Christmas Story!



7 - "This is my sister. She is 4th best prostitute in Kazakhstan."

Borat



8 - "That still only counts as one!"

Lord of the Rings



9 - "XXX says that the chances of survival are 725 to 1. Actually XXX has been known to make mistakes... from time to time... Oh dear..."

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back. Change XXX to R2 and it is easy...



10 - "I only told you to blow the bloody doors off!"

The original version of The Italian Job. And I can see playing it back that I got the line wrong too! Sorry!



Hope you enjoyed that!

It's Snow Time!

So, Monday morning arrived with a fair amount of snow in my area - further west, London was having a really hard time of it, but being for or less surrounded by sea, we never suffer that badly.

I started the day by feeding Humphrey, my mom's pony.


I have banned my mom from going out in this sort of weather - she puts up a token resistance, but seems to be pleased really.

Then, having decided that the roads were OK, I carried on to work. On arrival I was told that my boss, being snowed in himself, had said that I shouldn't have gone in. But as I was there I might as well do a few jobs before going home. I guess I could legally have just gone home as my office was really cold, but you know me by now!

As I finished the last job on my list, I looked out of the window into a blizzard. That was when I posted my previous message and headed home, into a blizzard that came and went.

This was the scene around half way home. The road is a mix of fresh snow, slush with salt and grit in it and hidden ice. You can see my tyre tracks in the snow! I got home OK, if a little cold...

Also feeling the cold is the local wildlife. Here are a couple of doves who have just finished stuffing themselves at the all you can eat buffet that is our bird table.

Yesterday morning I woke up and felt terrible. With hindsite it was probably the effect if being cold for so long the day before, having never really warmed up while at work. Ah well, I slept in til lunchtime, then fiddled around for the rest of the day, even managing to make a few new bits if scenery for my soldiers - a couple of marshes, a small wood, a larger enclosed wood and a village (almost finished). I really enjoy doing that but never seem to do enough of it.

Anyway, back to normal now! I will try to post the answers to my quiz later today, after catching up as much as possible.

And the winner is...

agg79 from http://aluminut.blogspot.com/

He managed to get an impressive 7 out of 10!

The snow has returned with a vengence, so I am now running home!