You might wonder why I have a photograph of the .44-calibre version of the IMI (Israeli Military Industries) Desert Eagle handgun. It's just to show how educational having a newborn baby can be!I was watching a programme on the Discovery Channel at 6am this morning about pistols, and this was on it. In case you're interested, its big brother the .50-calibre AE version was the one that I remembered now - the most powerful handgun in the world. Having fired Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum on holiday with Anton and Becca 10 years ago, I can imagine what firing this cannon is like.
Anyway, that's besides the point. I was watching that programme because it was just about the most interesting thing on at that time of the morning, when I was trying to convince Lara that she should either pay full attention to the TV or go to sleep. She'd been awake for hours, and not because she was hungry, or needed winding (I mean burping, not winding like you do to a clock!) because we'd tried that. She might just have inherited her dad's fondness for not going to sleep at sleeping time, but whatever it was, Mr Desert Eagle seemed to do the trick eventually, and I was able to put her back in her cot and go back to sleep myself at 7.20. We'd gone to watch TV so Olga could get some undisturbed sleep as the poor girl had been up trying to work out why Lara wouldn't go to sleep, or eat very much.
Maybe it was just the excitement of having visitors over this weekend; as well as Anton & Becca and Cath & Nick, Lucy came over on Saturday and Chris & Cara came to visit on Sunday.
Luckily it's nice and quiet here in the office, I can get a few jobs done to clear the desks for a few days then it's time to head home and peel sprouts!
1 comment:
Woosh, and now the S&W model 500 is the most powerful gun in the world, and by nearly 1000 joules. Shoots .50 magnum rounds. A lot more kick though since it doesn't have a slide.
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