I had to laugh

Recently there was a program on the BBC called ‘Snog, Marry or Avoid?’. This was billed as the world’s first “make-under” show. Thankfully I managed to avoid this, but the premise was that some extremely made up women (Google Jodie Marsh, but be prepared for a bit of potentially NSFW content) and to remove the make up and make them look natural.

On the train this morning a suitably under-made up lady, pushed me out of the way as she smugly occupied the last seat left. Disgruntled I was until the brushes came out. And the pencils, mirrors, hair straighteners* and all the other paraphernalia.

So deftly did she stroke the brush across her cheeks. Her lips took on an alluring pout in a lovely shade of burnt red. Her eyelashes grew to luscious lengths. And then the train jerked and she poked herself in the eye.

Like I said. I had to laugh.

 

 

 

 

 

*Ok, maybe not the straighteners.

Touching Kids

Wife and I were in a local branch of Next last week. As I wondered up to the top floor (Ting! Menswear and Home) there was a little boy of around 2 years old crying for his Mum.

As i noticed him, My wife came upstairs and I said to her to try and find the mum. In the meantime, the little fella was trying to go down the up escalator.

Aaaagh! What do I do??

I grabbed him and pulled him back and another guy used the emergency stop on the escalator.

By then a uniformed member of staff arrived and they took over and took the boy downstairs to his Mum (apparently clueless he was missing, but that’s a whole different story).

So here’s a thought. What would you do? In this day and age of the media exposure of paedophiles and missing children, would you dare touch someone else’s kid? What is worrying to me is that my gut instinct, which was to help the child, was then subdued by the fear of others thinking wrongly.

Floating Feet

Canada seems to be having a problem at the moment although it is happening all over the world.

Severed feet seem to be appearing on shorelines all over the world and it is getting worrying.

My favourite comment by a Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a Flotsam Expert, said he gets calls about body parts floating in the water "all the time. It’s not unusual. What’s unusual is that there are four right feet and one left foot."

Like what on earth? Is there a global serial killer on the loose? Are sharks traveling further and closer to humans that we thought…or simply are people trying to walk on water?

A very long time…

So much has happened since Valentine’s day!

 

We received delivery of our second child in the first week of March. A bouncing baby boy who insists on throwing up on Dad’s suit every morning. Ammar was a bit early, but he’s progressed hugely over the last 3 months and we are finally seeming to get some sleep! Ruqaiiya loves him to bits and insists that squashing him is a sign of affection. Except when Papa does it to her.

 

Work has been hectic. That should be enough said about that.

 

Ruqaiiya has turned 4 and we went to her new school last night for an open evening. She will be starting there in September and was very excited to meet her new class teacher.

 

And we are going to Desh in a couple of weeks time for my sister-in-law’s wedding. So the last few weeks/months have been dedicated to shopping, shopping and more shopping. It better be worth it.