Another magical weekend. Yesterday was great with sunshine, Fiona feeling fit, Clifford on top of his mathematics at sixth form college and Miles working his head off for the afternoon doing his Uni mathematics. Nothing like that feeling that it is all in place! The main aim of our walk in Durham City yesterday was to see the latest landslide and what was being done about it. There was a digger busy at work dragging down all of the loose soil and I reckon the path will be open in a couple of weeks.

Barely saw a bird yesterday they must have all been sunbathing! But had a good laugh walking up the steps of Elvet Bridge from the Riverside. A group of about eight teenagers were throwing some sort of cap gun paper off the bridge onto people below laughing as it exploded which wasn't as bad as it sounds but irritating. They were very excited and having a really good laugh. I was so so about this mildly youthful anarchic behaviour and as I walked through them I suddenly shouted as loudly as I could, "BANG" and they jumped out of their skins one youngie going so far as to run away with a really worried look on his face whilst the others realised I was just a middle-aged jovial idiot having a laugh at their expense. Good fun and proof that most youth are really alright was they thought it was really funny as well.

A miracle occurred yesterday. We actually got Fiona a jumper that she likes. It is second-hand has a small hole in it and we were politely informed by the stall holder that if we got one of the American army jackets there is a real bullet hole in that. She looked absolutely lovely a hiking lady through and through the highest evolution for the female species.

Today I took Miles skateboarding and my mate Lukes delightful girlfriend Ashleigh Perkins pencil sketched me while I was doing my reading session. She is a very talented lady no doubt about it doing Fine Art at Teesside University. After this we went to visit my mother who was in good fettle strangely enough feeling a lot better now she is off painkillers. The human body is a mystery not least the female one.

I should be starting work this week I finally got my identification . I'm looking forward to this new phase in my life and not having to bother with music so much which I wasn't enjoying  anyway because I did not want to be away from my beautiful wife, the lads, as well as the many good friends I know in this Northern Paradise. Life is moving forward from me which is my way of saying: it is good.