Today we shall mostly be doing this .......

Actually, this is an old shot from a few years back when my RGH first tried his hand at water powered rockets. The man crouching on the floor in fear for his life is my RGB (Rather Groovy Brother-in-law) and the hunk just about to receive a two litre rocket-powered enema is obviously RGH, when he was trying to prove his cool uncle credentials.

Anyway, yesterday he spent most of the day in Rocketeering HQ (our kitchen) working on a new project. Some men of a certain age buy fast cars, some men date younger women, and some men - bless their little cotton socks - build three and a half feet tall water rockets!!

Yesterday we also managed to slip out for one of these .......

(oops, remembered my camera too late)

But unfortunately, NOT ONE SINGLE STITCH of monkey made of knit occurred yesterday. And there's only THREE DAYS LEFT!!!

So here instead is Random Monkey Shot #7

Snakes on a plane? How about Monkeys in a tube??

And be sure to tune in tomorrow, for the epic tale of how we disposed of No.'s 3 and 4. For ever. (By driving them down the M4 Motorway and bundling them out of the car. Oh of course we didn't do that! Although that thought did cross my mind.......)

While we were out .....

........ apart from introducing my parents to the delights of the white choc chip and raspberry muffin - Mum got it, Dad not so much (must be a girl thing) - we indulged my RGH in his new hobby.

Oh, the fun we have in our house - I knit and he ....... makes water rockets. We're so cool!! (btw, if any knittists do happen to stumble across this blog, please don't stone me, I KNOW knitting is cool - it's the unbelievers who need to be convinced.) (Ditto water rocket makers.)

Anyway, in spite of the Great British Rain I tried to get some action shots of the rocketeer in action. I got quite a few of these ......

....... until, finally, the money shot! Houston we have take off!

(I feel I need to point out on my RGH's behalf : it went WAY higher than that!)

So now the gauntlet has been thrown down and my RIF (Rather Inventive Father) has taken up the rocketeering challenge. What next? Monkeys In Space??