Rowan Tree and Red Thread

I've been quiet on LJ of late, due to a surge in stuff to be done at work and a lingering cold that's left me with a sore throat. I love waking up feeling like I've been strangled.

On the up side, I've taken a few days off work in an attempt to use up some of my holidays before the end of the current holiday year at work (it runs from July 1st to July 1st) and I'm off Monday and Friday for the rest of the month of June. This week I also took Tuesday and Wednesday off to lend a hand to sammywol who has had another (and hopefully the last) of her vascular laser treatments for her b*st*rd of a verruca that leave her sore and hobbling for a couple of days.


With Rowan in the crèche as usual this mean we had the opportunity to go to the movies in the middle of the day. This is not something we get to do much as we don't have a regular babysitter who would allow us to go to movies in the evenings, and Rowan's bedtime routine doesn't match the regular movie schedules that well either. Yesterday, however, we did go to see X3: The Last Stand. It wasn't as bad as I had heard, which isn't a glowing recommendation by anyone's lights. It was, nonetheless, good fun and full of mutant scrapping. The plot was tissue paper and the characters were almost all cardboard (though I did like the little we saw of Kitty Pryde) but that only made it more like the average X-Men comic. Kelsey Grammar was probably the most entertaining character as the Beast; Famke Janssen was the worst as a practically characterless Jean Grey/Phoenix. I think I liked her more when she was comatose. What a waste of her talents.


Now it's Friday morning and we're gearing up to head away to sammywol's parents for a few days. Swimming, beach-trips and many dog-related amusements are sure to follow.