Did you have a good weekend?

Wife ill so quite a bit of care and being bollocked.

Driving all over the country for pick ups and deliveries of teenagers.

But I also fitted the new Lanber ejector slide which my engineer made for £60. So gun was 25, ejector parts £60 + £18. Then stripped the wood and oiled it. I now have a pair (30 inch and 28 inch and fore-end designs are only difference). If you have an email address I will send you a pic.

Mutters are you channelling Swiss Toni?

Birthday party for a friend. Pleasant and civilized but neither particularly relaxing (it was a fairly large party and there were many people I didn't know) nor boozy enough to be messy entertaining. Bed by 1am with only 3 beers consumed. A feeling of existential angst and unease at becoming middle aged in lieu of a hangover the following day.

Rest of the weekend was spent on (mainly child related) errands.

i was supposed to have dinner with friends on saturday evening, but they unilaterally changed this plan to lunch so that we could see their child. We didn't ask to see their child, so we were both more than a little p1ssed off. The pub was like a creche, which all pubs seem to be on saturday afternoons.

In isolation, this would have been fine, but we were due to have lunch with my godson (6) on sunday too. after escaping that we went for a quiet drink in a nice little pub in south ken. except it was not quiet as a bunch of italians had rolled up with all their fvcking children. it was 7pm on a sunday. why the fvck weren't these children at home ready for bed

I really do not understand why people insist on taking their children to restaurants or pubs. its fvcking selfish as far as i'm concerned. the children do not want to be there. the guys wind up standing in a huddle talking sh*t and the women wind up looking after the kids. everyone winds up p1ssed off with everyone else. Oh, and forget trying to have a conversation when you're constantly being interrupted. when did parents lose the ability to tell their children that they had to wait until the grown-ups have finished talking before they are allowed to interject?

you're going to make a properly shyt dad

Took kids to various pubs in South Kensington to annoy tedes.

I also fitted two PIR halogen floodlights to deter the foxes/intruders/post-brexit scavengers as last week we had a visiting scabby VW van man who was in the middle of helping himself to a pile of seasoned oak sitting by my gate. I said wtf do you think you are doing as he opened the back and lifted lumps in and he said "I thought this was just waste stuff". I said it was inside my property, cut and stacked and he had better fook off or the rozzers would be right behind him. Last week I saw the same van down our lane at dusk with gunslips in the back. I reported it and the po po had him for poaching.

wang@ 11:26: harsh! I haven't got any particular reason to disagree with your observation, but LF's point about the misery of taking children to pubs is spot on. The one exception might be a country pub with an ace garden they can run about in

What flashheart said. Modern parents are mostly fannies. The sooner we have a good war to remind us that children are commodities not deities the better.