Back Once Again with the Renegade Master

S’Happenin’ Peeps?

If you aren’t already you should be following my ginger ass on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/nickypatterson – it’s guaranteed out yer chair fun!

Anyway I’ve spent the last fortnight putting a shelf up hence the lack of blogging – so here is the lowdown in abbreviated form.  Try saying abbreviated when your inebriated…it’s loads of fun.  I did it twice already.

Weather update: Savage Arctic Conditions in 1 Victoria Crescent – here is a live picture

Astounded

As you can see I have been working out – just haven’t told my chin yet.

So if I’m right I left of spinning some yarn about our Anniversary meal.  Yeah?  OK.  Here is the history of the past 19 days crammed jam-packed into a minute 4000 words:

Video Exclusive and VIP visitation

First off the video exclusive of Bethany’s ace drawing skills.  Drink it up!

If you don’t see the video above then visit this link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCLtzucFmMA

This was by far the highlight of the week until Louise ‘Weezy’ Topping arrived from Pompey (Portsmouth) for a week’s hing-oot at chateau Patterson.  Weezy is my (step) sister-in-law.  She is 16.

In the party spirit

So we picked her up from the airport.  Gail and Betty went to greet her from the plane with banners and balloons much to Weezy’s teenage enthusiasm and delight.  I, meanwhile, dodged the barriers and taxi drivers for 45 minutes which was much much fun and something which I’d be please to do time and time again.

When we got upsta road Bethany just about blew her top with excitement that her OTHER auntie Louise was sleeping in HER room.  Everything she did and said she made sure that Louise was watching.  In her smurf-journalistic mode she decided to log the occasion in her viewfinder:

Patterazzi!!

So we had a smashing week and although I worked most of it I managed to take the girls to Mings in Princes Square:

Yum Yum

Ikea:

It's still as big as last time

and Wagamama/Pictures (Confessions of a Shopaholic – pish):

Gail - not impressed

On the event of the latter Gail and I had a stormer in Central on the way home.  The photo says it all.  Confessions of a Shopaholic is horrible.  We waited in a 2 mile queue for almost 7 hours only to get close enough to the till to smell the queen’s nose to be told that both Slumdog Millionaire and Notorious were sold out.  I did the gentlemanly thing and offered to spend more than 2o real actual pounds on tickets for Confessions of a Shopaholic – thinking the girls would respectfully decline – and to m utter astonishment and humiliation they upheld the offer.  We came out and the girls said that I laughed.  Actually I was being sarcastic the first time and the second time I was choking on a piece of unpopped popcorn.  I also tried to fall asleep to look cool and uninterested but couldn’t because the sound was up too high.  Betty was at Auntie Karen’s.

Weezy went home the next morning and we got sad.

More Glasgow Culture and Birthday Action

On Sunday we did the Patterson Culture Club thang again and visited the Lighthouse in Glasgow which was dead good but not really for entertaining kids – unless they like stairs, lifts and architecture.

We climbed to the top of the Rennie Macintosh Tower

Those two pretty blobs are my wife and child

At the top you can see the whole of Glasgow which is pretty cool for somewhere I never even knew existed:

Tip Top

On top form

Top of the pile

The next day we celebrated my Gran Sweeten’s and my Dad’s birthdays.  We went to my Auntie Julie’s house for some beer, cake and Chinese food.  Minted.

The Bairns Grub Up

Sometime the next day I came across these 3 smurfs who clearly share the same gene-pool:

The very next morning I awoke with one of those spots inbetween my nose and the crease of my cheek.  For some reason I thought the best way to deal with this would be without hands:

That brings us up to last Tuesday morning which is recent enough I think.  This isn’t Brookside so I don’t feel I have to turn up everyday.

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Will be back this week gang. Ciao for now.

xxx