And when you've done the house, start again. I just threw out two bottles of olive oil marked best before 2004. WHAT.
Today I have been enjoying being older, eating like a piglet (1. Toast. 2. Butter. 3. Tabasco. 4. Strong cheese. 5. Black pepper. 6. Heat. 7. Yum. Next time I include the Worcestershire sauce.) and playing with Freda, who can't understand "forty-four" and thinks I am four. We Skyped to her grandparents, upon which I discovered my netbook's microphone is now not working, despite my workaround with the excellent new shitty speakers
arkady got me (per Rocknerd post above).
Freda gave me a card, which she signed herself!
I also spent far too much time cutting stuff out of her CBeebies craft magazine with plastic scissors that kept breaking. It appears that in forty-four years, I have in fact failed to learn how to work machinery only as complicated as scissors. Here's Freda in a silly cardboard hat:
Dinner tonight involves steak, mushrooms, chips, a chocolate cake for dessert and copious beers. Here's to domesticity.Update: Banana beer is bizarre. It makes Belgian fruit beer seem normal.



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Date: 2011-02-19 07:43 pm (UTC)Your child is adorable. *)
(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-19 07:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-19 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-19 10:19 pm (UTC)Just wait until you've tried the Mango beer...
(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-19 10:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-19 11:04 pm (UTC)And then you try German Weißbier, and add 1/4 to 1/3 of banana juice. When you try that on your average lager-addict, complete sensory overload ensues.
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Date: 2011-02-20 12:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-20 06:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-20 01:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-20 01:38 pm (UTC)You get a absolutely evil hangover off it if you overdo it, but it's so tasty it's worth it.
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Date: 2011-02-23 01:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-23 08:13 am (UTC)