Congrats
The Ayatollah insisted that I had to buy my nephew an away kit 
for his birthday - we also had to have it today - fuck knows why - so at lunchtime off I went to the shop
What the actual holy fuck
About a billion graduates and their parents all over the place - I managed to get to the chapel arms before giving up as a lost cause
Yipee!
Our plane has landed.
Itās an old style 737-800 not the newer 737-800-200.
So it is only extremely uncomfortable not agonising!
Woop de whoop
Is the 737-800-200 the extended one with the double-glazed conservatory?
And the imaginary Skybar.
Flight was usual Ryanair.
But a child almost died
After 30 minutes of kicking my seat from behind.
In the end I got the Stewardess to do the loud āyou are a dreadful motherā speech.
Child lived. Mother died of shame
4 x 1kg Smoked Gammon steaks 
2kg Pork shoulder joint with crackling fat
4 x Lamb Steaks
2 x Aged Ribeye
Sausage Rolls
Mini Melton Mowbray Piesā
Cornish Pasties
All safely home
You didnāt get any splinters from the Ryanair bench seats then?
Seats? What seats? 
Mushy peas mush?
An old friend, mancunian but now a Portuguese national, is staying with us for a few days.
First go to foods today - crumpets and scotch eggs - not together I might add.
Bloody odd the things you miss.
Mrs P_F discovered Crumpets on this trip
Youāre doomed 
Time was we used to have a lot of fun when we were kidsā¦Eastleigh Open Day 1961. 
Did you let your kids do thisā¦bet you did. 
Nicked from Southampton Heritage Photographs FB group.
A very good vintage, 1961. 
I was expecting a photo of you on Stephensonās Rocket?
No 1969ā¦a Saturn 5.
I remember an open day at Portsmouth harbour
It would have been pre Falklands because one of the ship I went on got sunk (Galahad?)
Inremeber we were allowed to walk around the sail of a submarine - about six inches wide and a straight drop into the harbour - no rails no ropes
Life was simpler back then although there was jeopardy
I am at the age now where I prefer literal crumpet to figurative crumpet.
Name Days.
FFS.
This is a BIG THING here.
Like I can even remember Birthdays.
Anyway Mrs P_F tells me last night itās her Mumās today.
Thank God for FB & Sister in Law who posts Happy name day to all Annaās.
Itās a DOUBLE name day FFS
Anyway, suitable warned I have procured the most annoying gift possible for her & Mumās favourite Liqueur Cherry Chocs to keep her"sweet"
Smug emoji
How does the butter melt down into the holes?
Do I get a Name Drop badge, Iām in the Kasbah Club in Southbourne and I mentioned @Polski_Filipā¦
Think it was harsh of them to bar me for life because I know himā¦
