The crazed ravings of Splinter (Tony Castley)
Posts about my family.
Well I have two weeks of holidays! However it looks like my father-in-law might be staying for the long haul.
A couple of years ago he had a heart attack and a triple bypass operation, however he has not really recovered from this. Over the last two weeks that he has been here he has been getting worse. One stay in the hospital, 3 doctor visits and one specialist visit.
I hope he gets better soon.
As you can see from Dani’s post, I am away again. 😥
This is my second last week away, before a few weeks holiday and then work in my home city. It has been so long since I have worked for a project within my normal field, in my home city I can hardly imagine it.
The projects I have been working on have got some press recently and it is nice to see that what I am doing is being noticed.
Today I am working from the appartment as I have a head cold I got off my son.
The kid’s school had their fete on the weekend and as expected we spent over 12 hours helping on Friday and Saturday.
But it was FUN!
Unlike many schools that have an annual fete our school has a fete once every three years. In theory this means that it can be bigger and better, and we don’t over use all the helpers. This seems to work, even though the school yard does not seem large enough to hold it all.
They had bottle, cake and food stores, they had raffles, luck dips and ring toss everything that any good school fete has.
But the thing I loved was the small medieval torney. One of the teachers is a member of a club that constructs and ‘Fights’ with medieval armour and weapons. Just for the record Bred, ‘Lord Red’, the teacher won the contest.
Of course everyone got into the spirit of things, as you can see by the school’s Principal.
