Where's The Blog Been?

I got a phone call on Friday morning from Duncan (above)to tell me that at about 8.30 daughter Sarah (also above) had been involved in a car accident. Duncan started the conversation by telling me not to worry and that Sarah was fine but he then went on to say that her car had skidded on ice and ended up upside down on a country lane. Now I know that the fact that Sarah was fine should have been enough to put me and Marion at ease but the thought of her being in such a serious incident (the car is a write off) had a pretty worrying and traumatic effect on us both. We love our daughter dearly and the thought of the fright that she went through and our being two hundred and forty miles away was terribly unsettling. Anyway we are glad to say that Sarah says that she is feeling better and will soon be back at school but we're still going to St Andrews on Saturday just to see for ourselves.



Orange Wednesday today so we are off to see I Love You Phillip Morris. This is Jim Carrey's new film and it's about a gay romance. We were going to see Shutter Island but the critics seemed to think it was a bit too long so we might save that until next week when we are feeling a bit more upbeat. Last week we went to see The Crazies and really enjoyed it - a tremendous B Movie.




At least we managed to see our mums on Mothers' Day. Here they both are with my mum Ann left and Marion's mum Flo right. Both are approaching their mid eighties now but as you can see they are still a picture of health and we look forward to many Mothers' Days to come. PS Mum you left your cake and I'm sorry to say that we ate it.



Yesterday our friendly (and excellent) photographer Peter Raymond visited in an attempt to teach a complete amateur (me) the art of getting colour balance right in his photos. So Peter, after you left I had a go at that Avatar movie where James Cameron obviously had his colour balance set up wrong. What do you think of the results?





We had a visit from one of the Instanta babies the other day. Here is our machine tester Andy Fyles' daughter Bethany with wannabee grandma Marion. The Instanta babies are really the Instanta toddlers now and Bethany has discovered her voice. And very loud it is too. But she's got a great vocabulary for her age and she speaks really well.

Operations Director Dave Wilson's son Jack is mad about Lego. Here's an example of what you can do with Lego nowadays. When I was a kid you could build a house.