Let’s do this together

Looks like I missed all the fun at Glasto while I was away. Especially as the Pyramid Stage headliner, Paul McCartney, made it look like 80 is the new 40 – surely a testament to the anti-ageing properties of Linda’s veggie sausages.

Many thanks to Amanda for covering while I was away, and hopefully she’ll have got the feeling back in her legs after all that dancing. They got very lucky with the weather this year given the vagaries of the English summer.

The last time I was at the festival (pre Dark Lord), the monsoon downpours turned the healing fields into paddy fields and it was a total washout. If sequins and mini dresses were in style this year, wellies and homemade plastic macs fashioned from black rubbish bags were the look of Glasto 2007.

I also (sad face) missed another food-tech delight last week when The Dark Lord made a quiche at school, but she did leave me the week-old salmonella remains in the fridge.

We’re also still counting the losses after the dozy teenager slammed the freezer shut on Friday, and it bounced back open. She then went off to stay with her auntie in Cambridge for the weekend and everything melted.

Luckily, it was emptier than usual after we’d been doing a “freezer surprise” week of meals before I went away – TDL’s least favourite and almost certainly one of the reasons she will leave home sooner rather than later one day.

But all her ice cream and lollies melted, so she’s taken a direct hit this time, which hopefully should teach her to close the door carefully.

I’ve also been catching up with all the glamorous photos on social media of friends’ teenagers at their proms.

I wish we’d had a prom when I finished my O-levels back in 1985. Instead we raved it up with a few bottles of pink Lambrusco and a packet of Sobranie cigarettes at the top of Primrose Hill in North London.

Although as my dad, rather accurately, pointed out, “Best to celebrate now before you actually get your results, as it’ll be all downhill from there.”

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