On Summer Related Friday Fives
May. 13th, 2019 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danieldwilliam
1. What made you smile this week?
How happy my son was at the arrival of his long, longed for guinea pigs. He was positely gyrating with joy.
2. What ingredients make a perfect Saturday?
At the moment a perfect Saturday would involve being left alone with nothing to do and the prospect of nothing to do on Sunday. That is mostly because I am tired, everyone in my family is sick and there is still too much to do.
3. What is the best thing you ever had for dessert? Share the memory or the recipe.
Food is so far from my mind at the moment that I'm struggling to fit this question in to a useful schema or taxonomy.
I like a sticky toffee pudding or a bannofee pie but my brain won't let me remember eating them.
4. What is your favorite memory of your mom, or your favorite thing about being a mom?
There are a few to go at.
I remember her taking us camping with some of her friends and her friend's kids when were were in our mid to late teens. The adults all got quite drunk one night and my mum became concerned that the moon (behind a cloud) had gone missing and set off to search for it before we put her to bed. It remains very, very funny.
My mum getting schooled by my daugher about 4th wave feminism and eventually conceeding that she had a point and then joining Tumblr to find out more about it.
5. What are your plans for the summer (or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere)
We have a family holiday planned for July in Northumbria. This will include my daughter's graduation ceremony in Newcastle. I'm planning some extensive birthday celebration around the middle of August. (Mind you, celebrating is currently low on my list of things I actually want to do.) I think we will go and see James and Madness in concert and Stephen Fry's book tour of Mythos and Heros.
Mostly I am looking forward to not having football on Saturday morning or rugby on Sunday afernoon for a few months.
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Date: 2019-05-13 11:53 am (UTC)They are such little sweethearts! :o)
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Date: 2019-05-13 01:10 pm (UTC)They arrived on Friday evening so they've had the weekend adjusting to their new home. One is much more timid than the other. It basiscally hid in one of the little houses for 48 hours. The other hid behind the other house.
The Captain tells me that he can hear them drinking from their water fountain in the wee small hours and the food we are putting out is being eaten.
I think we'll give them another 24 hours to settle in. Mostly because everyone in the house has some sort of upset tummy and we should probably avoid handling small animals. Then it's a programme of more intense acclimatisation.
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Date: 2019-05-13 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-13 12:31 pm (UTC)Hope the guinea pigs are a success, they are rather cute little critters :)
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Date: 2019-05-13 01:13 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to being able to handle the guinea pigs and getting them used to us. The Captain is delighed. He's been preparing since November and he's been very dilligent in his preparation.
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Date: 2019-05-13 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-14 08:21 am (UTC)The Captain was sick in the night on Friday, which meant nobody got a decent night's sleep on Friday or Saturday. MLW was sick on Sunday. I've not been sick but I feel pretty rough and dehydrated.
12 hours sleep last night and several litres of water this morning and I'm feeling a little better.
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Date: 2019-05-14 08:27 am (UTC)That sounds horrid for all concerned. May it pass quickly.
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Date: 2019-05-14 09:18 am (UTC)The Captain is currently full of beans and tending to his livestock.