Good night...and good luck

How are you today my friend. I'm feeling strangely bright and breezy for a Monday morning!

Interesting weekend. Stood up on Friday night! ha ha!
A friend in crisis prevented my date keeping our appointment.

Stood up Sunday night aswell by two of my best friends. Their different excuses came on text within a minute of one another!

Dads + Lads was good - everyone came and (I think) had a good time.
The discussion was around "what does fatherhood mean to you?"
The opening question I posed for the guys was "what's good about being a dad?" Silence. A stumbling attempt at an answer. A dictate about what 'you' should do as a dad.

Maybe there was reticence to speak up in the first session?
But felt discouraged that the question was such a struggle for the dads. Hope, however, that it will provoke thought this week.

Decided to go to the cafe my church has recently bought in the high street to wind down. Had I gone straight home I know the session would have been a complete disaster after 30 minutes reflection and pondering!! Patience, Dan. I have to remember that each course resets to the beginning - I am carrying on from the last one, in a way, but the dads aren't. AND, isn't this why I am running the course in the first place - to celebrate fatherhood and 'big up' our children.

Good to chill out at the cafe with a couple of guys who I haven't seen for a while. Phil and I used to be in an accountability group, so fab to switch back to level 5 so quickly.

Went to the late night show Saturday (after the enthralling repeat of The Apprentice) to see "Good night...and good luck" the first of two George Clooney films out now. Interesting stuff, won't go into the politics of it now, but I will always remember this film as the first in which I had the theatre completely to myself!!

Gonna end with a moan - the Calcutta Cup Saturday - groan. How did Ben Cohen not score in the corner? We were poor. Scotland deserved their victory.