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Spring has sprung
Muslim neighbour in the window opposite doing something practical with his windows while I blog with a glass of Syrah. This is why they will rule us in fifty years' time.
I tried chopping it up because it seemed to take a long time to come on in tablet form. Bad idea. It burns your nose.
I went round to Kirsty's last night, so that we could go to see Jenny in her show, a series of selections from musicals, at her school. It was a most professional show, a credit to the school. Her school is a rare thing nowadays, classless. Academics and bus driver parents mingled in the foyer.
The tickets said that you had to go in evening dress. None of us have evening dress, but Kirsty looked most sophisticated in her beaded creme and brown short-sleeved top and straight creased brown trousers. I thought I looked OK too in a narrowly tailored suit which I got when the University of L---- gave me my maintenance grant, most of which I spent on clothes and getting pissed in Glasgow.
Legally Blonde came on, and there was my daughter, in the chorus. I couldn't believe that my daughter could possibly get herself involved in such degrading sexist material. If she wants to be an actress, I want to see her in obscure university theatres in works by ignored C18th Austrian dramatists. But she was great, she's a natural. I straightened my back to attention, looking at Jenny on the stage and Kirsty with shared parental pride.
When we got home, I said about the lyrics. Jenny, in an exasperated tone, explained to me, as though I were a fool, that the dialogue in Legally Blonde is a pisstake. We got them up to bed and me and Kirsty had a bottle of wine. I like being part of my family.
I'm banned from all Marks and Spencers in the UK after a misunderstanding of the provisions of the Theft Act, but I went into there tonight anyway and found a Herefordshire cider. It's been in the fridge for a bit and I will drink it now. "Single variety", it says on the label. Single variety is very rarely a recommendation in cider. It's good that they're trying though.
I've decided to delete the bit that was here last night. Not really fair on the other person, and have started worrying now in case she finds the blog. Probably not presenting my best side in this post!
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