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Beautiful and Brilliant


Posted in: Princess

This afternoon, the Princess and I went to see Azur et Asmar.

It’s the most beautiful film I have ever seen. My hopes were not inordinately high; it was a French language, animated film for children and, to boot, it looked arty. If I had known in advance that lots of it would be in arabic with no sub-titles, this would have confirmed my forebodings. It was fantastic. Within two minutes, I was fascinated and cajoling the Princess to stay (“I want to go home, I’m scared”). She was a little young for it but she stayed to the end and the ending was gorgeous and she came home babbling about the details, not all of which she understood, to her father.

Unfortunately, there is nothing I can write that would persuade me to go to this film, so I fear, I won’t be able to persuade you, but if you get a chance, you should really go, it’s spectacular and I know that people who go on about wonderful films they’ve seen are tedious but I have never seen anything like this before. Recommended as the critics say.

Correction


Posted in: Princess

Me: Yeah, that’s right.

Young L: Don’t say yeah, say yes.

Me: Do you like your chocolat chaud ?

Princess: Mummy, in English, I would say hot chocolate.

How are the boys?


Posted in: Twins

At the creche, when they reprimand one of the boys, the other looks crossly at the person reprimanding. Which is not to say that they do not fight, because they do. Daniel’s approach is to slap Michael round the head. Michael bites, everyone. The other evening, however, I noticed bite marks on Michael’s arm. The biter bit. Mind you, I wouldn’t be surprised, if he bit himself. I find, somewhat to my chagrin, that when Daniel refuses to eat (which he almost always does), Michael shakes his head and starts to refuse also. Michael can now climb up on the bed. Unfortunately, he can only get down by sitting on the edge and toppling over. He can also stand up unaided which he enjoys hugely until he ends up falling over on his bottom.  Both of them are cruising round the furniture with a certain amount of panache.  And Daniel regularly sleeps through the night; last night we slept, uninterrupted, from 11.20 to 5.50.   We get through  24 litres of milk a week up from our previous regular total of 18 – if you care, this is over 6 US gallons.   Only 16 litres of it is for the boys.

Ms. Malaprop


Posted in: Middle Child, Princess

Daniel: UH OH

Me: What did you drop sweetheart?

Princess: He didn’t drop anything, he’s lining.

Precious and base metals


Posted in: Princess

When I came home from work today the Princess said to me “Mummy, I was as good as gold today, not as bold as brass”.

And here is our heroine “reading” Snow White in the dark in three installments while ignoring barracking from her brothers.  You’d want to be really keen to look at these.

Ex-boyfriends


Posted in: Reading etc.

I was reading the Irish Times birth announcements the other day, blithely perusing the daft names people choose to give their innocent children when I saw that one of my ex-boyfriends and his wife have just had a baby girl. I felt a distinct pang of regret that we parted on such terms that I am not now in a position to call him and annoy him by passing on a great deal of smug advice about childrearing.

Another ex-boyfriend was from Rome and we have stayed in contact and about 8 or 9 years ago Mr. Waffle and I attended his wedding outside Rome. The reception was in a spectacularly beautiful castle. Which is, presumably, why Tom and Katie went there too. The excitement.

NaBlPoMo – You have seen all the blogs I regularly read.  Are you relieved? Yes, so am I.