Things I’ve learned from my children today Some bakeries are better than sliced bread.Boy One was doing his homework and I was loading the dishwasher. Dishwasher loading now has to be done with much stealth and silence as the slightest clatter and Boy Three hirples through to get in with the pans which probably isn’t […]
I’m playing away today
Drinking, rodent dentists and death threats
Things I’ve learned from my children today You can lead a Boy to the bath, but you can’t stop him drinking. Boy three is picking up new skills at an alarming rate. He’s now a proficient clapper, climber and fridge raider. He can also say “Hello”, Tellytubby style. But the skill he’s currently most pleased […]
Worm holes, the Rubicon cross code and boozer babies
Coalition is a splendrous thing… while it lasts. Boys One and Two spent a diligent afternoon in den building. Here’s the result. Pluto is in the Kyper Belt and it’s ‘only’ a dwarf planet. Boy One was fascinating me with his outer-space chat at breakfast time and we fell to discussing space travel. He believes […]
Gorse flower wine, wild footballs and ice cream adventures
Other things I’ve learned today. Gorse doesn’t grow in Newfoundland. During a splendid walking, talking, pushing infants morning with sister Super Pharmacist (like Wonder Woman but wearing a white coat over her shiny knickers) we met a couple of Newfoundlanders. We were marching around the woodlands near the Falkirk Wheel and all was the livid […]