Father’s Day

It was Father’s Day in the UK today. Completely unrelated to that, Sophie and Tom came over for a visit. This was the visit we didn’t have just before jetting off to Oz last month.

We had the usual stroll around the garden though Sophie had to have a raincoat over her head because of the drizzle. We also had to have the heaters on because she was cold. She was saying how, this summer, she had not turned the central heating off yet and was dreading her bill. I am so glad my body is generally warm enough and my core temperature is set quite high.

Tom was determined to have a light sabre fight even though his mum had forgotten to pack the actual light sabres (I’m fairly certain she forgot them on purpose) so he grabbed a couple of fronds from the banana tree and we tried with them. It wasn’t very successful.

We had Joey layer cake for lunch followed by plum puffs which had apple and banana in them instead, because the plums weren’t ripe. After lunch, Tom and I settled down on the lounge for some DVD action while Mirinda and Sophie wandered into town.

Along with the light sabres, Sophie had also forgotten to pack Tom’s movie choice, Wreck-it Ralph. Fortunately, BT Vision has it on the movie list so we could still watch it. What a cack! We laughed a lot. Actually, Sophie reckons most of Tom’s continuing enjoyment of these movies comes from my laughing at them.

Wreck-it Ralph is a character in a video game who is sick of being the bad guy all the time and wants to try his hand at winning a gold medal for being a hero. Of course this causes mayhem in the other video games, culminating in possible disaster in Sugar Rush, a racing cart game featuring lots of sweet things like lollies and candy canes.

Sarah Silverman was terrific as the glitch (Vanellope von Schweetz) though Sophie did refer to her as the one with the annoying voice. And John C. Reilly was perfect as Ralph.

It was a lot of non-stop fun which we both thoroughly enjoyed.

Before the main feature, Tom was adamant that we had to watch a short (20 minute) Lego Star Wars film. It was hilarious. Thoroughly. We didn’t stop laughing. Of course you’d have to know Star Wars but we both do, so no problem there.

Eventually Mirinda and Sophie returned and our visitors had to leave for the train down to the Isle of Wight, leaving the house once more peaceful.