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No one came to my ice cream party. I had to eat it all on my own. Oh wait, what? The invites never got posted. How did that happen?
After a very fast first km, Me 2 ran a sluggish and tired race and perhaps I had not quite fully recovered from my turn. A time of just over 30 minutes is about as badly as any of the Mes have done on this course and a full two and a half minutes worse than Me1s time of last week. The sub 25 minute 5km is looking a long way away right now.
A fun hog-roast birthday party with the other parents in the area this afternoon and though my job was mainly to follow Ernie around and stop him killing himself, it was a lot of fun. Ernie has become incredibly and terrifyingly good at climbing, much better than I ever was as a cowardly child and probably even better than I am now. I have two very brave children which makes me suspect I am not the actual father, but that is for the best really. Fearlessness is an admirable quality, if a scary for one for an anxious parent like me. He went high up a wooden ladder to a little hidey-hole above the swings and slide that all the other kids were playing on. I was pretty sure he wouldn't be able to climb down again, but my attempts to get up and carry him might have been more dangerous. We survived.
I was buoyed by news from York that City were comfortably beating the team directly below them in the terrible league they are now in. After a couple of seasons where my team were the worst performing professional football club in the UK, it's amazing to realise that this season they are the only team in any of the top six divisions who have not yet lost a match.What a turn around! It's worth losing lose to feel the relief and delight at a spate of victory. There is still plenty of time for them to mess it up, but wow. What glory. Kings Lynn, you took one hell of a beating.
Tonight for our Saturday night fun we finally sorted through the boxes of DVDs in our lounge to work out which ones we should keep and which we should give to charity. We were trying to work out which DVDs we would definitely not ever watch again and probably got rid of almost half of our huge collective hoard. But I was aware of the truth as we did this. In reality we were probably never going to watch any of these DVDs ever again. Maybe the kids' films and a handful of others, but given these DVDs have been in boxes for two and a half years and we've never had to even look for one of them…. Quite a few DVDs never even got watched when downloads weren't so prevalent, some of them still in their wrappers and displaying their dizzily expensive price tags.
Ah, this beautiful dead medium. I was so excited when it arrived, believing that it would be worth the expense of buying a series of something for £30 because I'd be able to watch it back forever. Why couldn't I see what was coming?
So the saved DVDs went back into the boxes to be stored somewhere where they would never be seen again. Whilst the unsaved ones went into a box to go to a charity shop and even if bought by someone, they'd probably not get round to watching them either. That's showbiz.
Bye bye Julien Donkey Boy. I never could face watching you. And I suspect neither could anyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if every DVD was blank and no one ever found out.
Many years ago I recorded a pilot episode for an idea about a call centre that hooks superheroes up to emergencies and a few years ago we shot a lot of stuff for a potential film (I think) about the idea. They've just finally released some of this stuff as mini eps. It's pretty good I think - ad-libbed bits to camera which come across really well and more scripted action bits.
You can check it out here. Another rare acting job where I am pretty pleased with my performance #Alan
