Golly. It's like he's never been away. The yelling at his siblings, the demands for food, the wrangles over whether he gets computer time, the lamentable lack in his life of an 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' DVD . . . I am SO HAPPY he's home. (I think he is too.)
The Goat Centre was just wonderful. It's a family-run affair, small and slightly frayed at the edges, but lumme - goats were the least of it. Lambs and llamas, pigs* and peacocks, a potoroo and a wallaby and a rhea, a cane toad and a caiman, tree frogs and trampolines, and a Holy Cow.** We met up with friends, and the children ran amuck for more than five hours. By the end of the day it took remarkably little to bathe, brush and bed them.
We also have seen remarkably little of Jeremy this week. (The week I start having milk delivered, two MAJOR consumers are not at home. I am currently Very Long on Milk.) On his way home from Germany, Mr. I'm-too-cool-to-carry-a-mobile-phone watched as all the other passengers on the cancelled-after-a-VERY-LONG-WAIT-on-board flight called their travel agents and got tickets for the next flight. Still, I'm sure the hotel was very comfortable. And now - it's like he's never been away. The yelling at the children, the demands for food, the wrangles over whether he gets sit-down time, the lamentable lack in his life of a beer . . . I am SO HAPPY he's home. (I think he is too.)
*Yesterday there was one EXTREMLY pregnant pig, and now, apparently, there is one exhausted pig and eight sausages-in-waiting.
** It is an escapee from a Welsh Buddhist community!
Prof Pickford
7 years ago
4 comments:
Ok, you got in there before me on the 'to-which-of -the-alpha-males-in-your-household-are-you-referring?' comment. Glad Kit is safely home (J obv should be old enough to look after himself, and to not need you to worry about him in quite the same way).
BTW I need one of Sylvia's Tutorials on my pompicuter - specifically how to do links, or italics, or bold, or anything TO INDICATE EMPHASIS APART FROM USING CAPITALS when commenting on blogs. (I laughed recently at the re-naming of capslock as rantlock. Nothing like a GOOD RANT.)
Said tutorial ideally to take place in your kitchen, having just been given far too strong a coffee and two squares of really yummy chocolate, while R and Sid amuse themselves in the playroom. Sigh.
I am currently long on plums, Dad having brought two trays back from Frome Market, which cost him all of £1. Could you lend me some milk with which to make yet more flipping custard?
*lol* like the new link.
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s - what has happened to the blog?
CsG swallowed by (unreported) earthquake?
Children locked you in the study till you gave them a trampoline?
Both your hands amputated at wrist by falling meteorite (sp?) ?
You can't be arsed?
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