Me and A at Six

 

Gotta take advantage of being close to a major city so I woke up early last Saturday to take A into London to get a wristband to then go to an in-store musical performance of a band she likes. It’s an English band called YouMeAtSix. Then Monday I took her into London for the big event on Oxford Street. Since I had a wristband I was pushed into blocked off area for fans with A. I looked around and there was no one even close to my age by at least twenty years! I told A I couldn’t stand amongst the kids and got out of there. There was another blockade with kids who had not gotten wristbands so I walked up to a girl who had come prepared with her digital SLR and asked her if she wanted a wristband. She was so excited and stared intently as I wriggled it off my hand. Her boyfriend on the other hand was being passive aggressive repeating over and over again how he would just wait for her in the back until the performance was over. She wasn’t listening to a word he was saying. My parting response to him was, “Sorry dude”.

The performance was great, A got her CD signed, and she has been walking on a cloud all week!

First Aid

Last week when I came home H said that A was sent to the nurse’s office at school. I got nervous and asked her why. She had painted her nails the night before forgetting that that was forbidden and got to school and was sent there to remove it. So in the nurse’s office (hopefully) amongst the first aid supplies was nail polish remover as well as makeup remover. I wonder what gets used more?

A Quiet Picture of the Underground

The only time the tube seems quiet is early on a Saturday morning.

The Morning Commute

The village we live in is in between the village that A’s school is in and the village where work is located. It should take me about ten minutes tops to drop A off and get to work but I find myself regularly sitting still in traffic, as pictured here.

My gigantic car generates very different reaction in men and women. I have had a few women at work say they wouldn’t want to drive it. When I was walking into work with one of the guys though, he said to me, “It must be fun driving that. You can intimidate everyone on the road”.

More Pics of Lulworth Cove

Lulworth Cove in Dorset

A had her first school field trip last week to Lulworth Cove. Ask her why they went there and like a typical teenager the answer is "I don't know". She did appreciate how beautiful the day was. Even with just a camera on her phone, the pictures were amazing.

Got My Absentee Ballot

And it even came with these pretty pictures. I am not sure why.