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Random Examples of Husbandly Virtue

31 July, 2010
Posted in: Mr. Waffle

Example 1.

Scene: Children and their mother sitting at the dinner table waiting for father to bring the dinner he has created from the kitchen. The cat plays happily under a nearby press. Mother notices that the cat is playing with a dead bird.
Mother and three children: Scream, dead bird, scream.
Father emerging from kitchen, grumpily, hands covered in breading: What?
Mother and children scream: The cat has a bird, the cat has a bird.
Father sighs, goes into the kitchen, washes hands, picks up a plastic bag, separates very peeved cat from the dead baby bird under the press and carries the bird to the bin. Then he washes his hands again and finishes making our dinner. You should know that it was not the father who insisted that the cat be added to the household.

Example 2.

Me: Michaela said she would never read a book by a nobel prize winner again after struggling through “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.”
Him: Who’s Michaela?
Me: Remember the Swedish girl from the book club?
Him: Was she the giraffe? [A reference to a particularly tall but fortunately beautiful girl, also in the book club.]
Me: No, no, you must remember her, she’s the most beautiful girl I ever met. She looks like Michelle Pfeiffer.
Him: Nope, can’t remember her at all.

Example 3.

Me: Mr. Waffle has received a sum of money for his labours and I am afraid that he will spend it on unnecessary things.
Friend: Like clothes? No, no, I wouldn’t mind, if he spent it on something nice for himself, no I mean things we don’t really need.
Friend: Like what?
Me: Well, he really wants to buy a saw but I feel he’s already chopped down six trees with the old saw and there are only two trees to go.
Friend: He cuts down your trees?
Me: Well, yes.
Friend: I’d love a husband who cut down trees. What else did he spend the money on?
Me: He bought the children’s school books.
Friend: Really, that’s frivolous? I thought they had to have school books.
Me: Well yes, but, you know, not until September. He could have spent the money on going up in a hot air balloon now or something exciting.
Friend: Anne, buy the man a saw.

Sometimes, you need friends to point out to you things you can’t quite see yourself. Tell me about your virtuous husbands.

In spite of dungeon, fire, sword and mild social embarrasment

30 July, 2010
Posted in: Boys, Daniel

When a friend visited last week, our children sat to draw at the table. Daniel approached me with his picture. “What’s that sweetheart?” I asked him. “It’s a crucifixion, Mummy.” he said, which, clearly, it was. We gave it to the priest after mass on Sunday and he has promised to hang it up in the church.

Travel Plans

29 July, 2010
Posted in: Siblings

No, not mine, my sister’s.

She has resigned from her job and will finish at the end of August. As she worked pretty much every day for months, she feels she needs a break. And as her pay levels reflected her commitment, she has sufficient funds not to need to look for a new job until January. In the interim she will be in the South of France, Rome and Mexico in September, in the South of Spain for October and in Chicago and Hawaii in November.

All I can say is that I hope she’ll be able to fit in some babysitting time for me at some point. No, no, of course I’m not bitterly envious.

9 Busy Years

28 July, 2010
Posted in: Mr. Waffle

In 2009, we consolidated.
In 2008, we moved country.
In 2007, we were settled in Belgium.
In 2006, we barely went out.
In 2005, we had twins.
In 2004, we had only one child and we thought it was quite hard work.
In 2003, we moved country and we had a baby girl.
In 2002, we both left our jobs.
In 2001, we got married.

Happy anniversary to us.

Book Meme

27 July, 2010
Posted in: Reading etc.

I got this from Dot.

1. What was the last book you read?

“The Help” by Katherine Stockett

2. Recommend a book.

“What I Loved” by Siri Hustvedt.

3. Recommend a children’s book.

“The Giant Jam Sandwich” Story and pictures by John Vernon Lord with verses by Janet Burroway

4. My guilty pleasure is:

Well, I wouldn’t call it guilty precisely but I am a big Georgette Heyer fan.

5. This one was rubbish:

Where to begin? “Man and Boy” by Tony Parsons.

6. If you wrote a book, what would it be? (Adapt as desired if you are writing or have written a book.)

Fiction. I haven’t really thought this through, have I?

Off you go and do it yourself.

Cinema

26 July, 2010
Posted in: Reading etc.

His and Hers

This is lovely. It’s a documentary film about women’s relationships with the men in their lives. It’s a series of interviews with women from very small girls to little old ladies. We never see the men they are talking about. It was, in a funny way, a description of everywoman. Or, at least, every Irish woman. All of the interviewees are from the Irish midlands. All of the interviews take place in the women’s homes and as well as the women, the varied styles of interior decoration favoured by the Irish public also played a supporting role. It was a little bit too long and sad at the end but still really great. I wonder will it travel? Have a look at the trailer and see what you think.

Greenberg

One whole evening I will never get back. This is directed by the guy who did “The Squid and the Whale”. If you liked that film, do not let this tempt you in. Really. Ben Stiller is an annoying 40 year old who is really nasty. He has a relationship (in the broadest sense of the word – or as the description in the cinema magazine put it, “he forges a connection”) with a 23 old girl who is slightly clueless. I knew that I was doomed when I found myself thinking, “My God, what would her poor mother think if she could see her lovely daughter being abused like this?”

Twilight – Latest Installment

Oh God, the tedium.

Toy Story 3D

Michael was traumatised and wept throughout but the others loved it.

Couldn’t get in to “Inception” on Saturday night. Probably for the best. We went for a walk along the quays and watched the sunset instead.

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