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Archives for May 2005

Petit Bateau


Posted in: Reading etc.

She came to Petit Bateau to buy t-shirts.  Like me, you will have assumed that it was only for children’s clothes, but it goes up to 18. You may say that it’s a long time since I’ve seen 18, but 18 year olds are a lot bigger than they were in my day. And their t-shirts are cheap (in contradistinction to their babies’ things which are terrifyingly expensive) and fabulous and don’t have a brand name across the front.  I offer you this information for nothing.  I am good and kind. And the best dressed one bought a beautiful little dress for the Princess also, which you may inspect here where my daughter has chosen to model it with a sieve.

Comments
jackdalton

on 02 May 2005 at 21:37

That’s a really cool sieve. Not so sure about the dress though…
😛

poggle

on 03 May 2005 at 11:46

She’s looking very grown-up waffley. Just as well – she’ll be on big sis duty soon ……

belgianwaffle

on 05 May 2005 at 14:03

Yes, gentlemen, I know the seive is a worry.
Pog, I know, well she has 4 and a half months and she would need all that time to adapt, if she had the remotest idea of what was coming.

The Amaryllis yesterday


Posted in: Reading etc.

The same amaryllis today:

Comments
midwifemuse

on 01 May 2005 at 15:25

Okay, no flowers, but its got leaves now. Perhaps you can’t have both?

Friar Tuck

on 01 May 2005 at 19:10

I presume you are using this to teach Princess a lesson on the fleeting nature of this life?

jackdalton

on 02 May 2005 at 21:40

I used to have a wonderful stand of tulips that I brought home with me from the UK.
This morning I had a very sick dog and no more tulips. He even dug up the bulbs.

Friar Tuck

on 02 May 2005 at 22:55

Did you notice that it appears to be trying to jump out the window? I’d put it on a suicide watch if I were you.

poggle

on 03 May 2005 at 11:47

Dear me. They’ll be calling in the NSPCP …..

beachhutman

on 03 May 2005 at 16:58

It always happens if I eat fruit too.

belgianwaffle

on 05 May 2005 at 14:02

Locotes, we live on the second floor, relax. What’s watering?
MWM, well, maybe, but if so, why couldn’t we hang on to the flowers?
FT, it’s jumped.
JD, um, did he eat the bulbs?
Pog, the inspectors are at the door.
BHM, at last, now I know where we’re going wrong…

jackdalton

on 05 May 2005 at 15:41

Flowers, leaf and bulbs…

belgianwaffle

on 06 May 2005 at 21:22

Terrifying. Get a child. It’s easier to put things out of its reach.

jackdalton

on 08 May 2005 at 16:12

Hmmm… there’s always the question about what to do with it when you want a holiday or some sort of a life. Kennels don’t generally take them I believe – even with full MMR etc certs…
And the poor houses are long gone, so there’s not even hope of refuge to be had in later and declining years…
😐

belgianwaffle

on 12 May 2005 at 19:29

JD – Grandparents?

jackdalton

on 13 May 2005 at 09:53

Not unless I dig them up…

belgianwaffle

on 13 May 2005 at 19:28

Go, go, go…

jackdalton

on 13 May 2005 at 19:31

As in away? 🙁

belgianwaffle

on 13 May 2005 at 19:39

No as in start digging.

jackdalton

on 13 May 2005 at 19:55

But they’ve dead. 😐

belgianwaffle

on 15 May 2005 at 20:29

Picky, picky, picky.

Belgian Parking


Posted in: Belgium
Total cost to me of parking my car on the street all day: €10 plus 4 trips out to feed the meter.
Total cost of parking fine received yesterday when I forgot to feed the meter (hey, I was busy): €12 plus no trips to the meter.
Personally, I think they need to rethink their level of fines.  I also finally understand why I am the ONLY person in Belgium who pays for parking  up front.

English Whimsey; American Genius


Posted in: Reading etc.

Am back rereading the collected Dorothy Parker. Particularly liked this from a review of an A.A. Milne offering.

“The cabinet minister talks softly and embarrassingly to Sally – “Ah Selly, Selly, Selly” – but that is not enough. He must tap out to her, on the garden wall, his message, though she is right beside him.  First he taps, and at the length it would take, the letter “I”. Then he goes on in to “l”, and, though surely everone in the audience has caught the idea, he carries through to “o”. “Oh, he’s not going on into “v””, I told myself. “Even Milne wouldn’t do that to you”. But he did. He tapped on through “v”, and then did an “e”. “If he does “y””, I thought, “I’m through.” And he did. So I shot myself. [….]

The play ends with him sitting at his desk, one hand tapping out “Good-bye, dear” – what a man; he must have had woodpecker blood in him! – while the other grasps the pen…”

Those go ahead Americans


Posted in: Siblings

My sister wants to know what I know about copyright and trademark law.  Not a lot.

“Reason I ask is that a colleague from work and I would like to file a patent but the US government patent site is very confusing.”

Comments
Locotes

on 05 May 2005 at 15:48

Unless it’s a patent on a product that makes internet sites easier to understand. Could be a winner…

Friar Tuck

on 05 May 2005 at 15:49

Ah, good. You do pro bono work. Expect my packet of questions in the post.

belgianwaffle

on 06 May 2005 at 21:24

JD, good point. Locotes, even better point. Have no idea what it’s for, this is her description “Its definitely worth investigating. Probably a better way to spend my time rather than playing Spider Solitaire”. And who am I to quibble with that?
FT, no.

And she won too.


Posted in: Reading etc.

Heather is in the Swiss blog awards. I don’t think she’s really too pushed about it herself but you know, I thought it would be nice.  But I can’t work out how to do it and unless someone explains to me soon, I won’t bother (though, I suppose since HJB doesn’t care, it’s no big deal or anything).

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jackdalton

on 05 May 2005 at 15:00

I wouldn’t vote for her… she’s too good to win. Only mediocraties ever win those things.

dmts

on 05 May 2005 at 15:06

Oh Waffly – how lovely. Actually this is the Swiss being terribly punctual about things – I don’t think it’s happening until next year but Matthias asked me to mention it on the blog and I thought that a bit of blatant electioneering mentioning a few other Swiss blogs would be good.
Jack, that’s terribly sweet of you. I think.

KateEvans

on 05 May 2005 at 19:55

I thought Mediocrates was a Greek philosopher.

NorahSplog

on 05 May 2005 at 20:08

Until you discovered Smirnoff?

jackdalton

on 05 May 2005 at 22:49

And there I was quietly patting myself on the back for a reasonable, two-layer word-play when who comes along but The Spokesperson for the League of Anti-mediocrities herself….
There are times when I give up on this deep humour thing, KateEvans. Because there’s always a bigger fish… 😉

KateEvans

on 05 May 2005 at 23:26

So the old ones really aren’t the best ones, then? Rats.

jackdalton

on 06 May 2005 at 00:06

Only when they are delivered with panache and a certain kind of wide-eyedfaith. 😉
ps not a good idea to mention rats… it might upset someone round here.

poggle

on 06 May 2005 at 11:00

I heard that. Mind you, they don’t do so well round here ….

beachhutman

on 06 May 2005 at 11:25

Soddit, how DO you get a link into comments? I had some good ratty stuff here: http://www.20six.co.uk/nextEntries/qgmiaosnfzv5

belgianwaffle

on 06 May 2005 at 21:26

Pog, you are all knowing. Ta. Jack, Kate, Norah, this is all a bit beyond me, I hope you realise that. BHM, as a person who can’t even work out how to vote in blog awards, I am poorly positioned to answer that.
HJB, NEXT YEAR??? You realise that by then I will have three small children and it will take all my energy to get out of bed, pull on my dressing gown and struggle to the kitchen. If they can’t take my vote now, it may never come…