Lathany

This is a picture of me at six months pregnant.



It's also about four days before I give birth, but I didn't know it at the time. We'd planned to take pregnancy pictures during the last trimester... and then it didn't happen. Therefore I think this is the only picture showing the bump.

Back from Cambridge.



We went on a trip to the Ferris Wheel.

We've had a lovely few days doing many of the usual things. The falconry, as ever, was my favourite, but the crazy golf and the pottery painting were pretty good too. The meal out on the Wednesday - pub food (burger and chips) included two rather excellent cocktails (Pink Gin Spritz and Passionfruit Martini).



Also we did well with the weather - no rain (after the arrival day) and no sunburn.

I had my second covid (AZ) vaccination on Saturday morning in Tesco. This time around the only side effect was a sore arm all Sunday, which is nice and minor.

Things over the last week:
- C's cat Cooper has learned how to get onto the top of the door. Sadly, he has not learned how to come down (other than to yowl until a human gets him).
- Dom bought me roses. The orange ones are all "Yeah! Let's go!" The yellow ones are "OK, we'll open a bit." The red ones are "Shan't."
- We had our first visitor last Thursday. Martin came over for food and to look through old photos from our childhood.
- Kentucky Route Zero continues to be weird, I might post some screenshots from the acts so far. I don't know how to describe it other than a bit not-quite-text-adventure and knows it. Also, a little bit dark.
- We had our road dug up and new gas pipes put in. Fortunately the weather had warmed a little, so losing the heating for most of the day wasn't a problem.

GameFAQs has published my review of WH40K Inquisitor - Martyr.

The single player is decent in a Diablo 2 kind of way. The story is quite interesting. Best of all, it does keep to the WH40K atmosphere. However, the co-op was just too buggy to play for long.

Over Easter we watched Wonder Woman 1984.

I'd liked the first film, but knew that this one had received worse reviews. And... it was watchable, but poor. Whilst I liked Steve from the first film, I did wince over it being (counts) 66 years on and still Diana's greatest wish is focussed around this man: "I'd like him back". Also, more generally the film seemed rather messy, a bit unexplained (how had that businessman ever heard of the stone or that the museum had it?) and somewhat cheesy.

On Sunday morning I went to the vaccination centre at Heathrow and got my first jab (AstraZeneca). There was a queue (although far worse by the time I left), I reached the front of the building 20 minutes after my appointment time (I finished 50 mins after my time). I suspect more people are turning up now there are news stories about shortages. It was a production line approach of medical questions and then on to someone else for the jab (this worked fine).

By Sunday evening I had a temperature and yesterday I had various muscle aches and felt a bit ropey. This morning a few mild muscle aches, but I think it's all gone now.

In what is effectively my social outing of the weekend (and possibly the month) I went to give blood this afternoon.

For the first time I had a late afternoon appointment. This meant that I had only two people after me and got to see the staff start to pack up. I got through the interview bit quickly (no problem with the iron content for once) and then onto the chair. The woman who looked after me was very good, and explained what she was doing throughout. This was the first time someone had explained that they put pressure on the area at the end to check you actually have stopped bleeding.

I miss the hot drinks, but still had a welcome Orange Club.

We watched the first (currently only) season of Alex Rider and finished it on Friday. It's about a teenage spy and adapted from a Young Adult book series (which I have not read). The first season is Point Blanc. It's OK. It's nicely paced and with a decent cast. The tech is unrealistic and so are Alex's skills, but if you take that as read it's a lot more watchable than some things.