On Half a Bank Holiday Weekend
May. 7th, 2018 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danieldwilliamIt has been a genuinely warm and sunny weekend in Edinburgh. I was a bit tired. Last week at work was quite busy, I had month end and some proposal writing and costing so I started the weekend a bit tired.
On Friday we had some friends round for dinner. They are lovely people who we see too little of. They have a daughter who goes to the same school as the Captain but a few years behind him. They get on well and he was a good host. We had some dinner, some Pimms or some beer and then the kids found a box of balloons for making balloon shapes and decided we were having a balloon sword fight. After that the Captain taught us all how to do The Floss. They headed home at about 8pm and MLW and I put the Captain to bed, did the washing up and snuggled up on the sofa to watch the Bridge. (I am confused by the Bridge because I thought we were watching series 3 and wasn't paying much attention but in fact we are watching series 1 and MLW has not watched any of it before.)
Saturday saw the sun shine brightly. Football in the morning was lovely. Lots of muscular play from the Captain. Dad stopped by before driving south to visit my Bristolian family. He and I watched the football together and talked about democratising local control over energy and the means of the production in the 21st Century. MLW arrived towards the end of the football from a sort of kettlebell based fitness class. She looked frankly beautiful, with very Farah Fawcett hair and all of a glow from her exercise. The kids messed about with each other after football. They all took of their shirts for some reason and ran around bare chested whilst the grown ups chatted in the sun.
After football and lunch MLW and I took the Captain for a walk along the Water of Leith. He had been to that part of the Water before during a Holiday Camp Outdoor Adventure session. So he showed us where he'd been making dens and learning how to make fires and outdoor latrines. We saw lots of amusing dogs on the walk. One who had followed his owner up a tree which arched over the stream and gotten them both stuck and a second who was fetching stones from the bottom of the river and was very excited about it all.
We went home and watched the Edinburgh Munster game on BBC Alba. Close game and a disappointing result but hey ho, Edinburgh have done very well to reach the play-offs and the Champions Cup. I like Richard Cockerill. After that the Captain had an impromptu play date and I had a nap. Then we went out on to the Meadows and played rugby for a bit all three of us.
I made a DIY version of the boardgame Less out of paper and old boxes of beer from the Tempest and BrewDog breweries. Worked well. Nice game. Port and whisky corks make good playing pieces.
Sunday was the day of the away rugby tournament. Another lovely sunny day, and off to Prestonpans. The kids played really well and had a fine time. They are really playing well structured rugby and playing as a team together. This was the first tournament they had been to where there was a "final" and a "winner". I thought they would be in with a good chance of winning but it wasn't to be. They won two of their group games and drew the third, against the other team who had won 2 games and didn't go through to the final match on tries scored. Personally I thought the score keeping in the final game was a little ropey and some of the tries given a little generous. I don't mind about the outcome (once I'd had an hour to process the disappointment) but I think that if you are going to have an official final with a definate winner and therefore teams who definately didn't win then I think you also need to make sure that the score keeping and score awarding are consistent and of a certain standard. I fielded quite a few (very, very slightly agrieved) questions from 8 year olds about how we'd managed to draw when clearly three of their tries had been scored by running outside the pitch.
In the end the coachs and the parents decided that we'd been a little hard done by but everyone had, had a nice time which is probably the best result in the long term. As we move in to playing more competitve games next season and the season beyond this experience will prove a useful touchstone. In the meantime, we all had a really lovely day out, played well and played good rugby and everyone got a medal.
Oh, and we say the actual Calcutta Cup and the Captain got to hold it.
You'd expect the Captain to be tired after that when we got home he decided he wanted to go and play more rugby, football and frisbee on the Meadows. The Meadows were pretty full but not as full as you might think. We played out for a few hours and enjoyed the sunshine and the beautiful cherry blossom. The blossom has been waiting in the wings whilst the weather was cold and as soon as the warm sunshine touched them they burst in to floresence with a show of luminous and translucent petals. It's one of my favourite sights of the year and something I look forward to and anticipate.
I have been feeling very physically and mentally healthly and enjoying both. The Captain has been fondelling my muscles and pointing them out to MLW. The kicking and throwing and so on felt really enjoyable and I had a lovely time with my family.
Sunday evening - off to the Grads to be prompt for one of our shows. It's shaping up to be a good show. I've done about 5 evenings of prompting for it now. It's only 43 pages long. So I'm pretty familiar with the play now. The cast did their first full, off-book run through and that went well. Home for a beer and an episode of the Bridge.
On Friday we had some friends round for dinner. They are lovely people who we see too little of. They have a daughter who goes to the same school as the Captain but a few years behind him. They get on well and he was a good host. We had some dinner, some Pimms or some beer and then the kids found a box of balloons for making balloon shapes and decided we were having a balloon sword fight. After that the Captain taught us all how to do The Floss. They headed home at about 8pm and MLW and I put the Captain to bed, did the washing up and snuggled up on the sofa to watch the Bridge. (I am confused by the Bridge because I thought we were watching series 3 and wasn't paying much attention but in fact we are watching series 1 and MLW has not watched any of it before.)
Saturday saw the sun shine brightly. Football in the morning was lovely. Lots of muscular play from the Captain. Dad stopped by before driving south to visit my Bristolian family. He and I watched the football together and talked about democratising local control over energy and the means of the production in the 21st Century. MLW arrived towards the end of the football from a sort of kettlebell based fitness class. She looked frankly beautiful, with very Farah Fawcett hair and all of a glow from her exercise. The kids messed about with each other after football. They all took of their shirts for some reason and ran around bare chested whilst the grown ups chatted in the sun.
After football and lunch MLW and I took the Captain for a walk along the Water of Leith. He had been to that part of the Water before during a Holiday Camp Outdoor Adventure session. So he showed us where he'd been making dens and learning how to make fires and outdoor latrines. We saw lots of amusing dogs on the walk. One who had followed his owner up a tree which arched over the stream and gotten them both stuck and a second who was fetching stones from the bottom of the river and was very excited about it all.
We went home and watched the Edinburgh Munster game on BBC Alba. Close game and a disappointing result but hey ho, Edinburgh have done very well to reach the play-offs and the Champions Cup. I like Richard Cockerill. After that the Captain had an impromptu play date and I had a nap. Then we went out on to the Meadows and played rugby for a bit all three of us.
I made a DIY version of the boardgame Less out of paper and old boxes of beer from the Tempest and BrewDog breweries. Worked well. Nice game. Port and whisky corks make good playing pieces.
Sunday was the day of the away rugby tournament. Another lovely sunny day, and off to Prestonpans. The kids played really well and had a fine time. They are really playing well structured rugby and playing as a team together. This was the first tournament they had been to where there was a "final" and a "winner". I thought they would be in with a good chance of winning but it wasn't to be. They won two of their group games and drew the third, against the other team who had won 2 games and didn't go through to the final match on tries scored. Personally I thought the score keeping in the final game was a little ropey and some of the tries given a little generous. I don't mind about the outcome (once I'd had an hour to process the disappointment) but I think that if you are going to have an official final with a definate winner and therefore teams who definately didn't win then I think you also need to make sure that the score keeping and score awarding are consistent and of a certain standard. I fielded quite a few (very, very slightly agrieved) questions from 8 year olds about how we'd managed to draw when clearly three of their tries had been scored by running outside the pitch.
In the end the coachs and the parents decided that we'd been a little hard done by but everyone had, had a nice time which is probably the best result in the long term. As we move in to playing more competitve games next season and the season beyond this experience will prove a useful touchstone. In the meantime, we all had a really lovely day out, played well and played good rugby and everyone got a medal.
Oh, and we say the actual Calcutta Cup and the Captain got to hold it.
You'd expect the Captain to be tired after that when we got home he decided he wanted to go and play more rugby, football and frisbee on the Meadows. The Meadows were pretty full but not as full as you might think. We played out for a few hours and enjoyed the sunshine and the beautiful cherry blossom. The blossom has been waiting in the wings whilst the weather was cold and as soon as the warm sunshine touched them they burst in to floresence with a show of luminous and translucent petals. It's one of my favourite sights of the year and something I look forward to and anticipate.
I have been feeling very physically and mentally healthly and enjoying both. The Captain has been fondelling my muscles and pointing them out to MLW. The kicking and throwing and so on felt really enjoyable and I had a lovely time with my family.
Sunday evening - off to the Grads to be prompt for one of our shows. It's shaping up to be a good show. I've done about 5 evenings of prompting for it now. It's only 43 pages long. So I'm pretty familiar with the play now. The cast did their first full, off-book run through and that went well. Home for a beer and an episode of the Bridge.
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Date: 2018-05-07 08:26 pm (UTC)This exercise and particularly the weight training story really is the best thing ever. Well, after Sophia obvs.
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Date: 2018-05-08 08:47 am (UTC)Today we have moved on to Olympic standard weight lifting - so lifting the weights from the floor rather than from a bar a little above the ground. The extra distance is only a couple of inches but its a couple of of inches right at the end of the my range. So we'll see if I can walk tomorrow.
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Date: 2018-05-08 08:48 am (UTC)That’s brilliant. I can’t imagine a lot of people get as far as Olympic standard weight lifting.
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Date: 2018-05-08 08:56 am (UTC)All I need to do is to hope that my hamstrings don't throw a fit today and I'm good to go.
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Date: 2018-05-08 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-05-08 08:42 am (UTC)Just got the rehearsal schedule for the play I'm in - so that's my next adventure starting.