Keep It In The Family

We were supposed to be going down to Mum's on Saturday to see my younger brother. He's a nurse and desn't have time off over Christmas this year, so he's popping down to see Mum just beforehand. And we thought we'd catch him there, give him his pressies and so-on.

Unfortunately, after her Works Do on Friday night, Vic was somewhat poorly on Saturday morning. She'd actually be up all night, feeling quite ill and had retired to the sofa with a bucket (which, fortunately she didn't need to use). She swears it was the turkey or a stomach bug as she didn't have much to drink. Whilst I believe her on this score, it does leave her wide open for all sorts of jokes... an opportunity that I just can't pass up!

While the Vickster recuperated in bed I completed a couple of excrutiatingly difficult (well for me, anyway) missions on GTA (punctuated with lost of swearing and angry controller tossing - it helps, honestly!), then me'n Stead drove up to Yate (pronounced Yah-tay, for the uninitiated) for an inpromptu Full Monty All Day Breakfast in the greasy, greasy caff. Oh yeah.

So, anyway - we went down to Mum's on Sunday instead. Russ turned up, too, so the whole Morrissey gang were present and correct (well present, anyway). An amusing time was had by all - except, it seems, Mum, who objected to us mucking around at dinner and talking about things she knows nothing about. Little britain, Star Wars, Computers and so on. Just about anything that could be considered remotely interesting.

After dinner at the local Brewers Fayre (which was about as inspiring as you could expect), we went back to Mums, where she turned the central heating and the real flame gas fire up to maximum and went to sleep in front of some inane property programme. Whilst she did that, we looked up the Star Wars Gangsta Rap which took about half an hour to load on Dad's nasty slow dialup connection. It was worth it, though.

Anyways. We also saw Vic's Dad, who we've not seen since he moved to Yorkshire about 3 months ago (and stole 'my' laptop). Which was nice.

Finished the day with a quick visit to Vic's Mum.

That's it. Not a very exciting weekend in the grand scheme of things, but it keeps me off the street.