Phew it has been busy today. And it has been Fathers' Day too.
Getting up around seven am I was greeted by Rupert clutching a marvellous Fathers' Day present made at his year three Art Attack Club. Carefully hidden in the fridge since Tuesday he had made a brown card present box complete with colourful bow tie on top and chocolate bar inside. I gave Rupert a grateful Fathers' Day cuddle before heading off for a morning stagger, otherwise known as a run, round the Desa Park City Lake. Even at 7.30am on Sunday there were plenty of people out doing likewise, enjoying a Sunday morning stagger before the heat of the day.
Back home, steaming well, I enjoyed a dip in the swimming pool and then a healthy Fathers' Day breakfast of apples, yoghurt and yesterday's flapjack. Next appointment of the day was a Fathers' Day look round a soon to be vacant house just metres away from where we currently live. There are a couple of possibilities for us to rent to rent a four bedroomed place. The key thing of course is to get the right price. Despite there being lots of building work taking place at Desa Park City some landlords seem intent on asking for silly prices for their houses and flats often asking for eye-watering increases on their current prices. We would all like to have an extra bedroom, but don't want to pay through the nose for it. The house we saw would certainly be very good for us so we have made an offer to the landlord and now just have to wait for their reply.
After that it was time for the next Fathers' Day treat. After much planning and plotting between Edwin, Rupert and Trixie the three of them insisted that we all walk over to The Waterfront together. Lexi and I took our seats at the local coffee shop and then the three sprogs set about buying a Fathers' Day mug of coffee for me as well as a chocolate cake and five cake forks. The coffee tasted great. Led by Rupert the children quickly set about making sure that the cake was safe for human consumption needing multiple forkfuls to be certain. The small forkful that I ate was delicious. To work off all this enjoyment we had a Fathers' Day play at the park.
Next it was off for a Fathers' Day trip to Batu Caves. This mission was essentially to work out the dates for Edwin's birthday adventure investigating the possibility of an explore around The Dark Caves and then tea. My Fathers' Day lunch was a 'Banana Leaf Set'' at a very good cafe near to the giant Buddha. All Malaysian based people will be happy with that simple meal description but I may need to elaborate for others. A 'Banana Leaf Set' is, obviously, served on a banana leaf and consists of rice, various vegetable curries, popodoms and exciting sauces. This particular restaurant did a great line in daal and coconut chutney.
On the way home I had Fathers' Day filling up the car with petrol session as well as a Fathers' Day shopping session before the final appointment of the day, a Fathers' Day trip to a colleague's leaving do. Held a Desa Park City Club it was a very pleasant afternoon with nice people.
But that wasn't all. On the way back from the do I had a quick Fathers' Day kick around followed by a Fathers' Day cool off in the aircon of home and a Fathers' Day glass of squash.
All in all a very pleasant Fathers's Day.