Birthday weekend (part two)

My birthday weekend is almost over.  Today, we had two friends come round before my family took me to a meal.  I thought that we were to get a lift, and we did, but not from the person who usually helps us out.  I had told my wife that I had always wanted to be in a stretched limousine, and she arranged it for me!  It was an awesome experience and then she took me to a local(ish) restaurant were we had some amazing food.  The kids loved the experience as well.  Though they may want it for Prom, an issue that is going to have to be addressed this year for my daughter...

Appreciated at work

My work appreciate me.  Got into work to be greeted by this.  Work was busy, not as bad as it has been on other days, but they did surprise me with more gifts later on and a rendition of Happy Birthday.  Did not get surprised by a cake though I did get some brownies which my kids love!

PMQs, the continued farce but my son did well

At the time of posting this, the nation waits to hear about the Sue Gray report.  PMQ's needless to say focused on it.  But today a new addition happened, Boris may have lied about a flight out of Afghanistan, allowing animals to fly out while leaving behind people who could have been helped out instead.  It may be that it did not impede the escape of others, but the issue is that Boris Johnson said one thing, and now another version of the truth is coming out.

On the plus side, by son just had his parent teacher day and did well.  Really really well.  Made my wife and I very proud.  

Another awesome birthday weekend day

Another day, and it again, was an awesome one.  I went for a walk with Tony and Sally in the morning and later we all went out for lunch were another friend from university surprised me. I had been given one of my presents before, an old Arsenal shirt from David, which I have been hinting about for years.  After lunch, I got given others from Tony.  Sally, his wife, thought that they may not be appreciated, but they were very different to what I had before.  I got a mug with a picture from university along with some Boris toilet paper, some alcohol, but most important of all, a Putin calendar!

A surprise

I met up with my past today.  My family have organised a great birthday weekend for me.  They had driven me into the middle of nowhere telling me that we were to go somewhere for afternoon tea.  It turned out that we were staying in a Air BnB place.  A fabulous house, and being shown round it, I missed seeing David, a friend from university sitting down (though he had been hiding at first).  It was great to see him, though he let slip that Tony, another friend from my past, was to come.  

While it took him time to come, he was being driven from the other side of the country.  He arrived with Sally, his wife and his son, the same age as my son.  All of us had to leave our dogs behind, and we talked and talked as we all caught up.

I am looking forward to the rest of the weekend as there is so much to go over.

The dog and treats

First of all, the weekend update (though a bit late).  My wife went out a bit for the birthday of a friend, the celebrations taking place over two days.  Saturday I was to pick her up, and I knew it was going to be late as she told me.  I was woken up about one on Sunday morning as she decided to get a friend to drive her home, but half an hour later, I went to collect her as she was still not home and I guessed correctly that the friend was being distracted.  A drive over and a lift for another friend and we finally went to bed.  

As for Leia, she has been having loads of fun with some toys that I have bought her.  We had started to run out of some treats, but thanks to eBay, they have been sourced.  Together with the puzzles, she is having loads of fun.

Prince Andrew & Matt Gaetz

Do I think that Prince Andrew did anything wrong based on UK law? Not knowingly, but I do not think that what he did was immoral. If he cannot recall not having sex with Victoria Giuffre, the question arises of how many other friends of Jeffrey Epstein did he have sex with? If he had just had sex with one, you can argue that he thought that this was attraction. If he had sex with many, then the motives of the friendship of Prince Andrew with Epstein needs to be examined. 

There is no doubt now, that Victoria Giuffre was the victim of grooming, the question is if Prince Andrew knew this and I suspect that the answer would be no considering that there was not as much information about this in the public eye as there is now. It will be interesting to see what happens in the USA about this considering he has done so much to avoid this case and even tried to use the Bill Cosby clause to get out of this. But as this case is being heard in the USA, if it is appealed, will this have ramifications for Matt Gaetz?