When not otherwise distracted...

It was as I was walking Moo to tap dancing lessons on Saturday morning, that my sister rang to tell me she thought that we had maybe lost my mother in Katmandhu.
Well misplaced rather than 'lost'.
She had been due back Thursday morning, by my sister's reckoning, from a holiday in Nepal with the specialist 'over-fifties' adventure travel agent. Two and a half days later and neither our mother's nor david's (step-father and/or husband) phones were being answered, the only lead; a half garbled txt msg that had been received from our mother earlier in the week.
Ah. Yes indeed. All the elements for an adventure surely. A missing person, a rugged, exotic location and a clue.

I sprang into action. I rang Eddie and asked him to get me the phone number for the Embassy in Katmandhu, stat. I rang my sister and asked her to get phone numbr for said 'over fifties' adventure travel agent...

Then I went for a coffee with B. We drank tea.

By the time the tap lesson had finished and B ad I had eaten cake, any dreams I may have had of being parachuted into Nepal, wearing my mission profile specific utility belt, on some damn foolish crusade to resue my mother from some sort of Temple Of Doom, had evaporated. My slightly bemused mother rang me to hand herself in. After 24 hours travelling, she had just listened to half a dozen voicemails and answer phone messages, all increasingly concerned and anxious about her lack of being where she should've been, which greeted her as she arrived home (on schedule) Saturday afternoon.
The whole thing was kind of amusing, I wasn't aware she was abroad in the first place, and quite nice, its been weeks since I had spoken to either my sister or my mother. Been distracted by tankGirl you see. Nice to know that a real or imagined crisis can pull a family together if needs be.

Saturday night Eddie came over with his Wii. We giggled, we played MarioKart til 4am*, we forgot to eat.

Sunday, moo and I slobbed, played wii, invited tankGirl over for dinner again (at Moo's suggestion) and watched Doctor Who.
It went well, I thought.

Tomorrow is bank holiday monday.
Standby for more exciting updates.
Stand clear of the doors as they are closing.

*I say 'played MarioKart', what I mean is: I demonstrated to Eddie how it should be played, by whupin (oh yes, a whupin) his ass, time and time again.