Well then. Thanks for joining us.

Here's a rundown on my weekend.

Friday night: being the craaaaaaazy funsters that we are, Mrs M and myself came home and cooked a roast chicken. Yeah, I know. Zany wacky individuals we are, combining to make a team that spells m-a-y-h-e-m !!! Anyway, after that, continuing with the hijinks, Mrs M fell asleep on the couch straight away and I shot some bad guys on the Xbox.

Saturday we went to Ikea and tried to move one step closer to getting the baby's room ready. The room in question is currently the study. The study has a whopping great big desk which will not be moving into the new study, which is currently the "guitar room". The big desk will find itself a new home somewhere. Not sure where yet - we've given it a few weeks notice and asked it to look for new owners, suggested it search the classifieds for like-minded furniture ("Medium-size filing cabinet seeks heavy-set desk for supporting relationship. I wanna be on you." etc etc). Anyway, so we were looking for a smaller, more compact workstationy thing, preferably with a single Swedish name like ÅRSTID, KLIPPAN, or SNÖT. So Ikea was the natural choice.

We came away happy, having chosen the cheaper and smaller of the two options. I think it's a good move because whilst we think we have a lot of crap now, I am led to believe that the spare space will soon fill up with untold bountiful treasure chests full of worthless and expensive one-use baby crap.

Had a quick look at some prams on the way home. We're only just beginning to look at them. Everyone's got an opinion and we're listening to them all at the moment, so if you've had a good or bad experience with any, please feel free to give us your two cents via the comment link below.

Saturday night we went to our friends' place, our friends being Mr and Mrs S. They have two extremely cute little kids, the eldest being nearly 3. He was very keen to show us his new train and did not blink once while the special visitor, Mrs M, read him a couple of stories. A few wines (for all but me missus) and a few laughs with some good friends. Nice. Mr and Mrs S have been building their house for over 3 years - don't ask - and for the last few months have been living in the one completed part of the house, the garage. It's not as bad as it sounds as they've set it up very nicely with a little mezzanine master bedroom and everything necessarily well organised. Still, it would be a trial with 2 kids under the age of 3 and it's a credit to their resolve that, at the time of writing, they've not yet killed each other.

Sunday, reasonably lazy, Mrs M off to breakfast with a friend while yours truly had a nice sleep in. Then I put together our Ikea goodies from the day before. Lots of frustrated groans and shouts of "F$&#ing cables!" were probably heard from behind the desk as I tried to make it all neat. In the end obviously it's all just shoved back there out of site in a big mess. Serenity now...

Last night, we went and saw Ben Elton at the concert hall. Brilliant show, as usual, from someone who we pretty much call a home-town boy these days. Poor old Mrs M fell asleep a bit, as is her wont in her pregnant state, but it was the second late night in a row for us.

Righto, that's about it. I hope your weekend was as madcap as that.
cheers,
Macca