"MAE!!!"

Mae and I had to pick up some cinema tickets at the Burns Centre, which has a tiny independent film theatre in it (which apparently you can rent for £18 for you and all your pals! Cool!) the other day. The centre also has a cafe/upmarket (for Dumfries) restaraunt called Hulabaloo's, as well as a Robert Burns exhibition.


Mae decided that I needed to learn more about Rabbie so she hauled me upstairs (I have no idea how many times she has been there, but never with me) and gave me the tour:


'this is what Dumfries looked like when Robert Burns and his wife, Jean Armour lived here'


'this is his soldiers jacket'


'this is his sword'


etc, etc.





After this we were on our way out and she said she needed a 'wee break and a bite to eat, do you want a coffee' trying to entice me into Hulabaloo's. After a bit of wrangling she hauled me upstairs. There were about 9 people in there. Five of them shouted 'Mae! How ya doing!!?'





Oh my god.

Man, what a night!!

Acrually, I think this photo may be used again (you know who you are...)

But, by the fourth trip to the farm this week we figured we may as well take a few pics. Mae has grown into the go karts, this was taken just before she crashed (I wouldn't make a good paparazzi as I was screaming 'look at me!'look at me!).

And she has made a new friend, baby alpaca, who is incredibly cute, he looks like a puppet (although I wouldn't shove my hand up his ass to see if he can talk), and he loves Mae- he always comes up and gives her a sniff and a nibble on her jacket.

The cutest bit was the new baby goats, no pictures as they were sucking my fingers the whole time!! I would love a pet goat. Who though, would offer to take care of it when we go on holidays? Seriously. WAY better than a rabbit.

My worst nightmare

No, it's not being up for lots of the night with the Reid girls staying over. It was actually a really nice visit, especially as Claire is loving me at the moment, and getting to see Heather grow into a very intellegent girl is great fun (she knows how to play the second child, that's for sure).

It's rabbits. There was one out front today, obviously a pet and so Mae and I tracked down the owner and they got it home. I tried to catch it at one point, but if Sharon had run over it on her way home I would have been quite happy.

On the news tonight was a story about these horrific monsters, that they are being bred and may 'hit the shops in about three years' as the newsreader stated. What, in a ramraid....?

This is fun

I kicked ass, and got loads of rice. It's weird, and maybe not really ethical, in some ways. Maybe it will spark a debate. Come on, Bethanne, Patrick and Tracey!!!

Fartgunya

No, it's not a new dish, like Chicken Gunya. It's when you make Mae angry about something. She bends over, and says, I'm Fart gunning ya. And then farts. It's not pleasant. I would say it's all out warfare.

This is for Andrew. Enjoy!!

FINALLY!!

We got some snow- just a little.

This weekend, we decided to cancel our trip to Northampton. What to do? Go to Newcastle for the night!! I really like Newcastle, having visited for the first time last year. We didn't get to stay at the Hilton this time, just the modest Premier Inn, but it was a good day and night.

We took Mae to the Seven Stories kids book centre, which was great, where we met the Gruffalo!! Geoff got a picture on his mobile which I will add soon, but he was a great big mascot-y type thing, brown fur, black tongue, purple pricles all over his back. All the kids ran up to him and started hugging him, but Mae was having none of it, sensibly.

Next day we went to the Blatic where we caught a bit of the Yoko Ono exhibition, which was a bit interesting, and her drawings were lovely, but there was an installation of a perspex maze, but under 16's weren't allowed in. Gimme a break, Yoko.

The night before we went out for dinner, and were walking along the waterfront, when we passed a man's club. Newcastle is a notorious hotspot for hen and stag nights, people wearing very little clothes and loads and loads of drunkeness. So we were passing this club and these two yahoos were walking by and one young guy ran up and peeked into the window, and started to shout 'Hey!! Let's see if we can see some fannies' (which is a stupid word for female genitalia), when he saw Mae and actually shouted, 'Hey!!! Let's see if we can see some FAN............oh, sorry.....'. Geoff and I almost killed ourselves laughing! He was nice to think that we might be offended, but unless he screamed 'Kooka' Mae would have been none the wiser.

And Mae has been taking loads of photos these days and I told Andrew I would post them: I like the one of PeeWee and Snow Bear.

We're not going

We were planning on visiting friends in Northampton this weekend. But the trains aren't running down south, and to be fair there is a bit more snow than this. BUT this is all that is in the news at the moment and it's getting really annoying- why should a foot of snow cause so much disruption? When mom, in Canada, needed her hairdryer to thaw open her FRONT DOOR!!

As Ross would say, for goodness sake!

Dancing the Night Away

This is about 2 minutes- you don't have to wach it all!!!

Actually the dancing is so that we can all SLEEP the night away, although one pee and one nightmare usually puts a halt to that. But, she is pretty good in a crazy hilarious way!!