Our Lads

On Tuesday our Andy was 21 years old. What did he want? A new TV. Now I work with people in IT who are on silly money, and/or have parents who have stacks of cash and habitually buy their offspring new cars or whatever they ask for. But we aren’t moneyed so Sue and I bought him the 37” Samsung LCD TV of his choice on our credit card and we will pay off a chunk of it and Andy will pay the rest, a deal that he is more than happy with especially as he got enough money from friends and family to handle his contribution. Bought on the internet from Dixons it was delivered Sunday afternoon, given to him Monday evening so that he could install it that evening. I have to say that it fits in a treat and the picture quality is excellent.

To celebrate his birthday as a family (remember, he had a BBQ for all his mates and friends) we went out to Wingwahs in Burton on Trent for a Chinese meal on Tuesday night. The six of us (both boys had their girlfriends with them) sat down and ate our fill. Suzie doesn’t usually like foreign food but even she enjoyed herself. It was one of the best Chinese meals I’ve had and worth the trip down from Derby.

Mark has benefited from Andy’s birthday, it that he got given Andy’s old, large, CRT television and it just fits into the gap in the corner of his bedroom. My habit of never throwing anything away meant that when he discovered that he needed an aerial and signal booster, all I had to do was rummage around in my box of bits and presto – one aerial and signal booster. Both boys needed some different cables to complete their set-ups, again, not a problem for my box of tricks. By the end of the evening both were up and running with full freeview services.

The other news relating to our boys is that Mark has had his results for the exams he sat at the end of his first year at Nottingham University. Results varied from paper to paper, but, overall he achieved a pass mark just fractionally under 80% which means that he is still on for a 1st class degree pass. Let us all hope he can maintain the pace and stay the course.

Right now we are very proud parents.