Family Affairs and other matters

My brother persuaded me to sign up to Facebook yesterday. He said he’d help me because my 14 year old said “you must be joking” when I asked him. My brother said, “you’ll love it, you’ll meet loads of old friends and have loads of people waiting for you to sign up when you join”. “No I won’t” I said. “Yes you will”, he said, and so on. But, disappointingly, I was right and everybody else was wrong, I had NO friends waiting for me…none. Even worse than that was that I couldn’t think of anybody I really wanted to find. I think it’s because I’m too old – my brother disagrees – he says the average age is 36, which means that I’m closer to the average than my son. I think my age group got burnt by “Friends Reunited” – most joined that, had affairs, ruined their marriages and now don’t dare find anybody else from their past for fear of ruining their latest relationship. Also, on Facebook, there’s an option to “poke” my friends. Is it just me or is that like living on Beaver Street? I can’t possibly give someone a poke, least of all, my son.

Went to two films this weekend. Took all three kids to see “Run Fatboy Run” on Saturday night. What a great film – I loved it, very funny and very moving and ridiculously poignant. I cried twice. Probably because the hero of the film went to extraordinary lengths to get the woman he loved back.

Tonight I went with my father to see “Atonement”. I thought the film was technically brilliant, but lacked depth – a bit like me…it was very loyal to the book, but it didn’t move me. Keira Knightly just doesn’t do it for me I’m afraid.

I’m surprised I managed to fit any films in given the amount of sport I have had to watch this weekend. I watched my 14 year old play rugby on Saturday and football on Sunday. I had to teach this morning, so missed my 7 year old’s game of football. He woke up (in my bed again) saying “today is the day I defeat the enemy” -he’s taking this new football team very seriously…luckily they did win and he was extremely happy saying “we’ve won all our matches so far this season” – teenage son couldn’t resist pointing out that it was only his second game, so don’t get too smug.

I got really cross with my 7 year old today – he was very badly behaved and rude to my mother…(not including the question about when she was young what did the dinasours look like). He was very remorseful and later brought me a lumpy bit of tissue paper, by way of an apology, in which he’d wrapped up not only a conker but one of his teeth). Presents don’t get any more special than that.