Edinburgh and Stuff

Almost 2 weeks ago we went to the Edinburgh festival to hang out with with our super fun comedian friends who are staying there all month. It was really our last chance to live the student life style for a few days before becoming the kind of people who carry wet wipes with them at all times, and invest money in invisible things like life insurance and pensions. Thinking about it though, maybe students and parents have more in common than you think, they both survive on too little sleep and they both turn a blind eye to crisps on the floor.

Edinburgh festival is really fun there are 1000s of shows and lots of them are free, (we went to 10 shows in two days and they were all free.) We saw a lot of our friends shows, and we really do have some super talented and funny friends. We saw some other shows too. We came back singing the songs from Kris Foster's album, he's a Lancashire comedian who wears a leopard suit for no reason and writes songs about Vimto, and taxidermy, and that situation that you sometimes find yourself in.... when you need to make two brews and you only have one tea bag. I respect people who write songs about things people don't normally write about. There are way to many songs about love, and I don't think I'm the only one who has run out of tea bags more times than I have been in love.

Since coming back I have been making the baby's room, so far I have painted the floor and one wall and been to ikea but not actually made the ikea stuff up yet. Here I am testing a few colours in my pyjamas. With hindsight the second coat was not really the time to start testing out different shades but I have an unconventional approach to decorating. When it's all finished I'll put up some photos.

Happy 57th Birthday to my Dad. We went to surprise him for the day while he was on holiday in the Yorkshire dales. The great thing about being 28 and having parents in their 50s is that we're at that nice point in life where neither of us are burdening each other, financially or emotionally. I've managed to get over all my teenage issues before they have started having old people problems, I hope to have at least another decade of that.

And last but not least...exciting news!! We have a nephew called Reuben born yesterday! Massive congrats to Dan's sister Bethany and husband Nick. Hopefully we'll get to visit soon and then I can dedicate a whole blog post to him.