Preparing for guests

Our next-door neighbours came over for a barbecue in the garden – and very nice it was too. Their son is turning into a good friend of Ottawacker Jr., and as we had missed his birthday by being in Québec City, we’d offered to take him to an Atletico Ottawa (our local football team) game. This was the first match since the Big Day. Despite having vowed to never set foot in the stadium because of the crass stupidity of the owner and his wife, I relented…

Spent the afternoon cooking, before coming down with a slight outbreak of vestibular neuronitis – so I let Mrs. Ottawacker accompany the boys to the match instead of me.