Saturday

Saturday post. A strange day. Spring is coming, I could feel it,walking the dog across the Moor and I could sense a change in the air a smell maybe a freshness? I don't know but it felt different. Maybe it was just because the sun was shining. It wasn't the temperature, it was blowing a gale- Hurricane Geordie- as my father- in- law calls the wind that whips through to your bones and blows virtually year round in the North East.

Or maybe its simply that this is a special weekend and week. My lovely daughter is sixteen tomorrow so my sister in law Denise and her husband Allan are up from Surrey. Hard to believe it really. So it's been a couple of days of reminiscing and looking at old photos. Its my son's eighteenth birthday on Wednesday as well- fuck me where did my life go. Bringing up two very special kids partly.

Family meal out kids and the wife, me and in laws and Denise and Allan. Tapas again but La Tasca this time. I like La Tasca but its not really authentic.Still good though and a nice location down by the Millenium Bridge on the Quayside.Where 18 years ago,when we moved here, it was a wasteland of abandoned warehouses and docks its now a thriving hub of restaurants and bars. The world has changed Newcastle has changed. I've changed. Still love The Wedding Present though. Listening today to a live recording of a show from their 2006 Tour in Cambridge Massachusetts the song is Go Out And Get 'Em Boy by a guy with a great web site Bradleys Almanac.