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6 August, 2005
Posted in: Belgium

She’s very intrepid, my friend the heart surgeon. When we were in college she spent the Summers travelling around Africa, travelling around South America and driving to the south of Spain in a car from which you could see the road by glancing down at the floor. The rust spots were touched up with white wall paint from her parents’ garage. Don’t ever buy a Fiat Panda.

She has just moved back to Vermont after a spell in Ireland and, given her past form, it was no surprise to learn that she drove to Toronto recently to visit a friend. Leaving her husband to labour in the local A&E ward, herself and her 6 month old baby spent about 12 hours in the car. When they got to Toronto it broke down. The Heart Surgeon and her friend’s husband replaced the battery (this is what she’s like) but she was under strict instructions not to use  the airconditioner, radio, fan etc. on the return journey. Lovely. She also loaded up with some IKEA furniture because, hey, why not. She points out (something I always believed to be true) that it took a full two days to assemble her furniture and heart surgery is far easier.

We’re going to IKEA on Monday. Wish us luck.

Comments
poggle

on 08 August 2005 at 11:12

Don’t do it waffley – you’ll only end up with too many tealights and candles. You will.

sus

on 08 August 2005 at 16:22

I don?t care what people say. I love IKEA. I only ever bought one thing there – my trusty double bed. It served me well for a year, then I sold it to friends who brought it to the US and it is now on its way to Italy with them.
Hope you are having fun with all the little nuts and bolts now…

belgianwaffle

on 08 August 2005 at 20:03

Negrito, my nerve failed me, we’re going tomorrow instead.
Pog, thank heavens you reminded me in time. I nearly forgot to add candles to the list.
Sus, that’s because you only went there once…

All the fun of the fair

8 August, 2005
Posted in: Princess

We went to the funfair yesterday. Am I correct in my belief that it is only in Belgium that the following foodstuffs are offered as standard to punters at these events: mussels, deep fried apple, snails, oysters, dried cod, and chips and
mayonnaise?

The Princess had to be dragged away kicking and screaming and is still very tearful when the word lorry is mentioned.

Comments
belgianwaffle

on 09 August 2005 at 20:08

Well, we only had chips and apple fritters, so we could have done better…

Loud dialogue in a cubicle

8 August, 2005
Posted in: Princess

Her: Mummy, do you want to do a wee?

Me:Ehem, yes.

Her: I hold your hands.

Me: OK so.

Her: Oh, well done, Mummy!

Comments
belgianwaffle

on 09 August 2005 at 20:08

Ratafia

(Homepage)

on 12 August 2005 at 11:37

Just discovered your blog today through Jim and Peggy.
This little story reminds me last time I was at a restaurant and went to the toilet. I heard a man in the toilet next door talking
“Oh, hello there, how are you it’s been a long time, you are so sweet. Say hello to daddy”.
It took me about 2 min to realize he was talking to his daughter on the mobile while he was sitting on the toilet, but at first sight I though he was talking to something else.

belgianwaffle

on 12 August 2005 at 21:02

Slightly terrifying that, I’d say…

[anonymous]

on 02 November 2005 at 23:32

A man’s work is never done

8 August, 2005
Posted in: Mr. Waffle

Mr. Waffle suggests that this might be called “bash Mr. Waffle entry” but I feel that this is harsh. Particularly since I am very grateful to him.  Poor Mr. Waffle has taken time off work to mind the Princess as the creche is closed and I am on a strict
diet of rest and relaxation. Speaking of diet, I went into my doctor this morning feeling fine and came out diabetic and anaemic. Sigh. Lots of tablets. And no biscuits. I digress.

Anyhow, Mr. Waffle and the Princess have been bonding and he has been very virtuous. And he is exhausted and has departed early to bed.  I on the other hand, despite my various pregnancy related ills (see previous paragraph) am full of beans because I spent the afternoon in bed and not in the
sandpit.

He found this blog recently and referred me to it for my
edification. He suggested that you, yes, you, might be interested. I was puzzled. “How did you come across this?” I asked my beloved. “Oh by googling ‘breast, immodest, women of Satan’, I think, why?”

My husband has become obsessed with Sudoku. I tried to put him off becase I had read Norah’s blog on this matter (can’t find the post, but it was terrifying) and knew that it was dangerous. Eventually, I gave in and got him The Times’s
book of Sudoku. But still all around the house I find sheets of paper with numbers and tippex marks. There is a file on this very computer called “Sudoku grid”. I explained to him that the book is meant to be filled in. “But I don’t like writing in books”. “Well, that is very laudable, my angel, but this book is designed to be written in, think of it as being like the  Princess’s colouring books”. “You let her colour in those? But she goes outside the lines and everything”. Sigh.

Finally, my husband is a list maniac. Everytime I move something, lists shower on me like confetti. And worse, it’s catching. I cannot now shop without a shopping list.  And I have made a twin preparation list. And I keep ticking things on it. Seriously, can you think of anything I’ve forgotten? Yes, I appreciate this is tedious for you, but you do realise that this is all about ME.

Twin list

Bedding:
Bed for Princess? If, yes, sheets blankets etc for same. 1
extra cot or, if we don’t move Princess on to a bed, 2 extra cots.
Sleeping bags for babies More cot bedding/blankets etc.
Worth getting those Moses basket thingies? Leave P. in cot for a while and then move babies on to cots when P. moves to bed, say, at 3 mths?

Clothes:
Lots of babygrows, hats

Food:
More bottles

Entertainment:
Play pen, another bouncy chair

Transport:
Double buggy (with car seats and lying down attachments?), buggy board thing for P. to ride on, new car if 3 car seats will not fit in our Ford Focus

Other:
New wall (oh just don’t ask), book places in creche (√)

Comments
kristin

on 09 August 2005 at 00:06

i am shocked and amazed at mr. waffle’s ability to plan for offspring. i know that post was all about you, and i understand that you are suffering, but i can’t tell you how rare that list-making gene is, at least when it refers to Caring for Others. And i know that of which i speak because my husband repeatedly and without shame forgets to put out a dinner plate for our version of Princess Waffle. Even when we are gathered around the table, and the wee one is wondering where hers is, he remains oblivious. This is offset by his adoration for her, but only just.

dmts

on 09 August 2005 at 06:40

1. Get loads of money from somewhere
2. Hire Nanny
3. Buy Gin
4, and etc.

Minkleberry

on 09 August 2005 at 07:36

I’m so sorry about the biscuits. You must be devastated xx
I’ll see your list maker and raise you a pile maker. (Small piles of ‘stuff’ all over the house.)

stroppycow

on 09 August 2005 at 09:40

Norah beat me to it, but in my defense i was busy poking my chest and taing shirts off so did not get a chance to comment.

poggle

on 09 August 2005 at 10:30

Sorry I’m late – I was ‘totally going for it’:
‘Stand and pretend you are totally going for it in worship and lift your hands up in the air with your arms fully extended to God. Is this exposing any belly skin?’
Yes it was. Am I going to hell?

Locotes

on 09 August 2005 at 13:15

I believe you are pog. At least you’ll get a decent tan.What’s wrong with Sudoku?

poggle

on 09 August 2005 at 13:55

Oh well – at least I’ll know a few people, ay?

StarCorner

on 09 August 2005 at 19:28

Phew – after reading your blog and the lists I’ve had to go and lie down…. my sympathies dear ms waffle… you’ve got so much to do – just keep making the lists I always find that helps!!

belgianwaffle

on 09 August 2005 at 20:15

Norah, thank you for your kind gift of a sweetie and your dire Sodoku warnings which I would have done well to have heeded.
Kristin, I know, it’s terrifying. And unnatural.
HJB, thank you for your sweetie. I was wondering whether I could apply to you for a small loan? You live in Switzerland, I know you must be rich. You will be relieved to hear that I already have gin.
Minks, ta, am devastated as you observe. Am resolutely refusing to let husband see this comment as I know he fantasises about being allowed to leave heaps of stuff round the house but is rigourously restrained.
Stroppy, are you brilliant at the Soduku thing too?
Pog, I read your blog, you are definitely going to hell. You might as well keep wearing those crop tops…
Loc, it makes people obsessive. Stay away.
Star, I dunno – thanks for sympathy, we’re nervous. And I fear that list is by no means complete.

Locotes

on 10 August 2005 at 11:24

I think it’s a grand way to pass free time, especially in work. Might even go mad and buy one of those books for my upcoming hols. Mix it in with some novel reading. Though of course I’ll be normal enough to actually write in the book itself…

belgianwaffle

on 10 August 2005 at 19:34

Don’t do it, you’ll go mad, I tell you, MAD.

IKEA outcomes sorry outputs

9 August, 2005
Posted in: Boys, Mr. Waffle, Princess

He is building a MALM. What a man. My sister tells me that in Chicago you can order from IKEA on line and pay $100 to have everything delivered.  Why is it America is so much better at this kind of thing?

Tomorrow we build a bed for the Princess. Our lives are just full, full, full of excitement.

Comments
Locotes

on 10 August 2005 at 12:52

I’m sure we’d be reasonably impressed if we just knew what that was – sounds highly futuristic though – any relation to HAL? 0
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belgianwaffle

on 10 August 2005 at 19:34

See neither of you has spent enough time in IKEA. All the furniture is lovingly named in Swedish (except for the Billy bookcase and the Carlos desk) and you should know that the MALM is a chest of drawers. 0
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poggle

on 11 August 2005 at 10:08

I have. I have spent enough time in IKEA.
*gibbers* 0
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belgianwaffle

on 11 August 2005 at 19:22

Oh no you haven’t and we had to go back today to exchange bed pieces having picked up the wrong ones in our haste last time. Sigh. 0
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poggle

on 12 August 2005 at 10:18

Really I have. And last time I went with Conchita. Oh god. I need a stiff drink …. the horror, the horror …. 0
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belgianwaffle

on 12 August 2005 at 21:05

That is a funny thought… 0
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beachhutman

on 18 August 2005 at 17:15

I LOVE making up Ikea names!
John – Deer
FFart – bathrobe
bollokks – light fitting
It’s great fun. We should start a blog for it! 0
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belgianwaffle

on 31 August 2005 at 13:22

BHM – I entirely agree, though I expect my time to be somewhat limited in the future… 0
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[anonymous]

on 02 November 2005 at 23:32

PaulBlogtown 0
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Shopping and Swimming

10 August, 2005
Posted in: Belgium, Dublin

“Fresh Eire”

As hot as Barcelona and as stylish as Paris, but just minutes from Dublin, Dundrum has all the edginess of London high style with the chi-chi boutiques of New York. Welcome to the new style council.”

Excuse me? Dundrum? A distant and dull Dublin suburb whose major claim to fame is that it houses the state’s main asylum for the criminally insane. Stay away.

In other news, we went to Bruxelles-les-bains today.
A slightly odd experience: inspired by a Parisian idea, the Bruxellois import lots of sand, stands and water games along the canal.  Herself loved it.

Comments
poggle

on 11 August 2005 at 10:28

‘Humdrum Dundrum’ sounds like a better title than ‘Fresh Eire’ then?

belgianwaffle

on 11 August 2005 at 19:23

LJ, still not good enough for me.
Pog, your way with words is marvellous.

poggle

on 12 August 2005 at 10:19

Yup – I’d be a whizz at ‘News of the Screws’ headlines, ay?

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