Okay, that’s enough.
Tom Lawrence
Family ice creams, courtesy of my dad.
(that’s espresso, mint chocolate chip, toffee and nut and raisin)
One with the ‘rents.
GPOYW?
As gratituous as they get edition.
Thought I’d share some more photos from the weekend with you guys.
My sister and I
Mother’s Birthday Surprise [Failure]
Seeing how tomorrow is my mum’s birthday and I don’t live with my family, I thought I’d plan an unexpected surprise for her by turning up at my parent’s house on the morning of her birthday, which happens to be tomorrow.
My plan began with staying awake through all of last night so I would sleep throughout today’s daylight so that I would feel wide and awake come nightfall. After treating the night like a typical morning, I then planned to catch the 4am train and hopefully make it home in time to wish my mum happy birthday before she had to set off to work. When my mum would arrive home from work, my dad would then reveal to her that he had booked a table for the whole family at her favourite restaurant which would turn into a wonderful evening together as a family and an awesome birthday for my mum.
Sadly, this is where the plan turned sour: My dad failed to book a table for her birthday. So now my dad calls me up and tells me not to come home until Friday, informing me we will now be celebrating her birthday a day later instead of Thursday. Except on Friday there’s no early trains I can catch that will allow me to surprise her. So now that I have my sleep pattern knocked twelve hours out, I now have to amend my sleep pattern to it’s original state in time for my mum’s now delayed birthday, leaving my body feeling like utter shit.
The things you do for family. Good job I hadn’t purchased the train tickets I guess.
Spent this morning rescuing my sister’s car in the snow with my family.
Can’t believe how deep the snow is here (some areas it’s close to 12 inches).
I love living in the British countryside sometimes.
So I just made the rest of my family watch It’s A Wonderful Life for the first time and…
They all thought it sucked. The first words to come out of my dad’s mouth were “I don’t get it” followed by calling the movie dull.
My dad then claimed it to be “unrealistic” that everyone would come together like that (stating they would all leave George Bailey to rot) and that it was stupid of him to leave his forgetful uncle Billy in charge of the $8000. On top of that my mother kept falling asleep throughout the movie and my sister told me the black and white picture along with poor sound quality was really off-putting and that the whole thing seemed lame.
Get a load of this: They all thought the movie felt emotionless. EMOTIONLESS I TELL YOU!
Seeing as how so many movies have paid tribute or reference or even taken the basic plot from this movie as well as the many quotes to have come out from the dialogue, am I going out of my mind here or something or am I just overrating this movie?
ANYONE?
Just come back from spending my afternoon out in the Peak District with my family. The area we chose to walk around was Derwent Reservoir (Google Maps link here) and I gotta say, I sometimes completely forget that I have this kind of beautiful countryside only a short drive away into the district.
It’s a shame I don’t often take advantage of the countryside and head out walking more (or maybe even cycling!) and that come next week I’ll be back in the dull city of Hull (yes, it rhymes for a reason), but at least I’ll be at my own place again.
There’s pros and cons to everything I guess.
