{"id":4211,"date":"2011-08-08T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2011-08-08T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:55:42","slug":"time-to-change-the-countdown-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/time-to-change-the-countdown-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to change the countdown clock!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, my birthday has come and gone, and it was a good weekend. In fact, it’s probably been one of the better weekends we’ve had in a while. We were originally supposed to have gone to the beach with Bean, but since Katy’s mom was still a bit fragile after coming out of the hospital, we’d decided to go up to Leicester for the weekend. <\/p>\n

Katy took me out on Saturday for a quick brunch at Mrs Bridges in Leicester, shopped for some arts & crafts supplies for Bean (face paint, gouache, plasticine, etc) then we went to see the last Harry Potter movie and then we went back to the oldies’ house for a BBQ<\/a> once Bean had gone to bed. The HP movie was better than I expected, even if they did butcher the book to make it fit into the director’s random plotlines at times. Still, it was good and I’m glad I saw it. It’s the end of an era though, weird to think that the franchise has been going on for over 10 years. Some people are reportedly going a bit doolaley about the fact that their “childhood days are now officially over”. Weird…<\/p>\n

The BBQ was amusing. I’d asked Mel to get a cheap BBQ from B&Q, as they were having an end-of-season sale. I finally got Mel cooking<\/a>! <\/p>\n

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Katy spoiled me a bit for my b’day. She got me a subscription to NGS and BBC Good Food magazine, some cologne, some socks and undies (don’t laugh, I asked for them!), The Last Supper<\/a> DVD†<\/sup>, a BBQ cookbook, a Get-On-My-Horse<\/a> fridge magnet and, of course, an Insanity Prawn Boy<\/a> t-shirt and matching plush prawn :) I love my wife, especially because she accepts my bizarre sense of humour. <\/p>\n

Now that my birthday is passed, the countdown clock on the blog has been set to tick down until xmas. Only 138 to go! Woohoo :)<\/p>\n

All pictures are online: http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/birthday_2011\/<\/a><\/p>\n

†<\/sup>You know what you need Heather? You know what you really need?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, my birthday has come and gone, and it was a good weekend. In fact, it’s probably been one of the better weekends we’ve had in a while. We were originally supposed to have gone to the beach with Bean, but since Katy’s mom was still a bit fragile after coming out of the hospital,…<\/p>\n

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