Revolutionary Rants

Ah well, the calm of “the birthday weekend” is over. After the wakeful night of work texts we had a very, very lazy day yesterday. We played Warcraft III and then cuddled up on the sofa and watched Howl’s Moving Castle, one of my gifts to Mr C, from Studio Ghibli. As usual with Hayao Miyazaki it was wonderful - strong female lead, beautiful landscapes, interesting characters and so forth. We loved it, and we were being so lazy that we watched the English version rather than the Japanese, so I got to listen to Christian Bale all afternoon: nice.

We made the mistake of remaining cuddled up on the sofa and soon dozed off for a nap! When we got up we made fresh pasta sauce (plum toms, courgette, capers, yellow pepper, chilli, spinich and whizz with) and watched Crisis on Jimmy’s Farm before going to bed!

Today Chicken returned to work, aged 23. I have got our wedding clothes ready and packed, made a plum calfotis and worked on a database still aged 24.