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I've got a 12 hour shift ahead of me 🙁
I'm still in bed awaiting a cuppa!
I'm up making breakfast. My wife has gone away for a 'girlie' weekend!
Been up some time but as Jr's still in bed I too am awaiting a cuppa.
I have been all up all night with D&V ......awesome :0(
Nice!!
His 'How I wone the yellow jumper' is good, I hope this book follows his standard.
Sausages on and just been given my pres:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grunwerg-Italian-Style-Espresso-Coffee/dp/B009VWHAYW
Brill!
8) ...and I get to go for a ride this morning. Whoop-de-whoop!
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A card that my boy had made at nursery, some fancy chocolates, and a cool photo frame with a picture of him and his mum in it. Awesome 🙂
Edit: liquid1000, your username sounds quite appropriate! Hope things improve.
Liquid 1000 - D+V
😆
Sorry - get well soon
Teenage sons, nothing going to happen before 11am at the earliest!
Ooh, Lezyne multi-tool & bottle cage have arrived. 🙂
Same as rogerthecat here. Absolutely zero chance of breakfast in bed 😕
Well, I'm going to pick up some tool chests later on the Halfords offer and then me & the kids are going to attack the garage.
The kids don't know this yet!!!
cuppa tea in bed, pancakes with maple syrup and a chilled out day ahead with a slideways ride in my local wood hopefully....
Wife away at girlie weekend so for me dog walking and taking mini tastic out somewhere
What is it with our wives going on girlie weekends on our day?
It's the rules, Mother's Day means you have to pamper her all day and give her a break from the kids, Father's Day you need to spend quality time with your kids, bloody stitch up!
Can you imagine the uproar had a lads weekend been booked over Mothering Sunday...
And I'm not even affected by this wanton abandonment of duties.
Woman...know your place I say.
[In quiet, indoor hushed voice obviously]
johndoh - Member
What is it with our wives going on girlie weekends on our day?
It's so they don't have to, you know, bother? Can you imagine the repercussions if we did they same?
FWIW, it's Boy 1's birthday today too. We get to go go-karting together. 😀
H-t-S I've just finished reading that and I really enjoyed it, hope you do too 🙂
MrsMCTD is away camping with the Guides, so my two forgot it was Fathers Day till about 9am, when we'd been up 2 hours. I did get a very fine book "A Year in the Saddle" by John Deering and Phil Ashley. Well, I got the book a month ago and told MrsMCTD that it was to be hidden and given to me today!
Car satnav for me. It's a lovely, and expensive gift.
I don't have a car.
But I'm allowed to use Mrs. D's car sometimes.
Now saying they couldn't decide between that and the Reverb I've been banging on about.
I once talked the kids into buying Mrs.D. a frying pan - this may or may not be related...
Heard a great anecdote by Al Murray about how when he was at school he had a real dislike of sport and he and group of his sport-disliking friends used to use 'sport' as a derogatory term. For instance 'He's a sport' meaning 'He's a ****'. As a gang they've hide from sports lessons in the theatre and pretend they were rehearsing. One of that gang of sport hating thespians was TV football reporter and TdF pundit Ned Boulting 🙂
Mines on a girlie week in the South of France !
A little box of chocs for me and some crumpets in bed, the food kind, the coffee never appeared though.
Might go out for a spin later and take the eldest it was blue skies but clouding over now, the trails should still be dusty here though.
I got some razor relief balm. I might use it on my bollocks or save it for Ed Oxley's birthday. Or both.
A new leatherman 🙂 , I think the boy wants it for himself though!!
I got some razor relief balm. I might use it on my bollocks or save it for Ed Oxley's birthday. Or both.
Gonna need a bigger tub..
I mis-read that as 'I might use it on my bollocks for Ed Oxley's birthday'
he's a lucky fella
Sausages on and just been given my pres:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grunwerg-Italian-Style-Espresso-Coffee/dp/B009VWHAYW
We got one of those at Christmas. It's ace.
Ive been out for a blast at swinley and came home to a full English breakfast and a card, dvd and a bottle of gentleman jack bourbon. .... 😀
I got a load of beer 😀
And the boys loved their blast down the Thames 😉
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'I might use it on my bollocks for Ed Oxley's birthday'
😆 😆
I woke up here
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so no presents for me
i woke up here
Were you in a bush, covered in rice?
Not this time 😉
I got this
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And some time off to finish building up my holiday bike!
Happy Days!
Cuddles from both kids in bed this morning, couldn't want for more. At 5.30. 😐
my boy brought 'me' some lego technic for fathers day. which he unwrapped for me. and then insisted i built so he could play with it before i went to work for the day. something isnt quite stacking up here!
The dog pinched my chocolates. 🙁
I got one of these;
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I can't wait to start making sparks with it 🙂
Wwaswaswins. Hope it came with a bit of steel to make sparks with
My daughter cooked us a 3 course meal last night, with minimal help. She's 15 so I was quite impressed. I love "doing things" presents, and anyway I just self-gifted a new road bike.
My 4 and 2 year old boys went shopping with mummy earlier for a pressie. I am now the proud owner of Goldie and Speckles. The fact that Eddy has wanted goldfish for a long time has surely nothing to do with it....
Beer, chocolate, day pass for riding. What more could I need?
I got bacon butties in bed, and am presetly having a beer, watching Moto GP, while i get a big roast cooked for me. My [s]cup[/s] plate both truly overfloweth 😀
Beer, malt minis and time off for a trip around the Back o' Skiddaw.
Suns out now - now lawn before beer o clock.
Pic feature on Ed Oxley's birthday should not be planned for this mag.
Just sat in my car and watched val de sole on red bull.tv on y phone. Now being cooked haggis. Day good.
I do the laundry 🙄
I got one of these;
Is that a hint that you're not requested to sire any further children? A 9" Angle grinder is quite and effective tool for setting your balls on fire. And then setting your hands on fire trying to put your balls out.
IME
I got a wiggins fred perry, one from the new collection. Already got one which I love and this one is great too. Went out for an hour on the road bike and collected the car from the restaurant we were at last night, its nice to not do an out and back route.
BBQ, fizz and beers this afternoon and relaxing in the sun now.
I love my family, they're great.
Got woken up at around 3am when the Mrs got in from work for some pretty awesome sex, rode the bike for a few hours and then got some socks 😀
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Two bottle of Henry Westons vintage cider and an evening alone as my family are out at a Jessie J concert!
Steak and chips, cider and a bit of telly that I want to watch, marvellous !
Kids cooking me a meal tonight....roast rump steak with sun dried tomatos or summink.
Its the effort that counts, no the edibility.
My wife looked after the kids (nearby) whilst I rode around a muddy wood all day and night.
I got this. Pick it up on Wednesday 🙂
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I got a couple of albums on vinyl, let the wife stay In bed til 10am, took everyone to Chirk Castle for a walk around the gardens and ice cream. Went to see my dad tonight for some wine. More Wine open now. I love my family.
We went out with the family - for ice cream - 3 generations on my side - Dad, Me and my boys.
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Fil, Mil, Mum, Dad and my lads, all there except MrsCat who was at home studying and me taking the pic.
About to hit the ironing whilst watching my new DVD of Bluestone 42 courtesy of my eldest.
Had a week in Scotland last week, got this today, and the look of joy as yunki Jr saw the light when he managed to read the words it, on and off this evening was delightful.. 😀
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After much hinting got a MTB jersey.... which'll have to go back, but hey-ho! Daughter gave me a tongue in cheek pill dispenser as I'm on regular painkillers,and my lad scored an awesome try right in front of me and won man of the match, so all in all a pretty good day chez 'Goat 😀
@wwaswas when you've lost one of your limbs in a tragic circular saw accident can I have dibs on your bikes?
Superman teeshirt and played footie with my daughter,recovering from a bender @ York races I,m still not popular after missing my train last night and having to get picked up ,I might be forgiven by next years Dads Day!
lie in
bacon and egg for brunch
ride in the park with the boy on his bike seat for the first time
fixed toilet
mowed, weeded, pruned and de-mossed the garden
great day
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I got a lie in until 8am, as wife dealt with the puppy at 6am 😯
Puppy opened my present and spent the next 5 minutes turning a sheet of paper into confetti. Got some spesh socks, bar of chocolate and a T shirt. Also went out and did a wet road ride. Came home and complained about my Spesh shoes and just ordered some Sidi's from Merlin. Great day and chilling now.
youngest got me a bottle of talisker he's only 3 so god know how he convinced the staff at Tesco's that he's old enough to buy it 😀
eldest got me a large bar of toblerone I "shared" it after dinner tonite with everyone.
and middle one forgot(lives with mum(ex wife))but was over on Saturday and did get to spend some time with her so not a complete loss
and I went out for a long ride today and it didn't rain so all in all good day was had by fatsimon 🙂
Family ride in the morning, followed by some more quality time with my boy and mrs, and then evening blast round cannock chase with mate. Awesome day.
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Bike related key ring and a day out with the kids and wife. Both boys slept in until 7. woohoo.
Had some boys only time yesterday while wife had time off. Result was my four year old now has his own mitre box to fit a tenon saw and my scrap wood supply has been savaged.
Found an old mtb dvd by the garage turbo trainer telly so put that on. Cue the two of them dancing along to the 90s metal and repeated cries of wow daddy look at that while i cleared up the devastation.
Got an Airfix enamel mug, My Time by Wiggo, and a new bivvy bag (the lad can have my old one) and I got to ride the Bluegrass Enduro at Kinlochleven too. Oh, almost forgot I got a bottle of Jura single malt :-). I love my family too
A half decent nights kip, that extended to a lie in. A pack of 4 water pistols and personalised t-shirts for the kids (1 and 3) with their names and a target painted on, ready to do battle 🙂
Oh, and a new painting/collage, the second in an ongoing series, this one was a joint production by two sisters, aged 1 and 3. It will go by my desk at school with the last one 🙂
I also got a large Toblerone as a "gift" - Waitrose were giving them away foc to anyone that spent over £40 this week 😯
My littlest made me a card with a giraffe on it and an aqua bead shark
Got this:
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Makes guitar picks out of old credit cards...Cool!