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Pipes, scans, fame

22 March, 2005
Posted in: Belgium, Princess, Reading etc.

So, other news from the Waffles. They are replacing the lead
water pipes on the street. This is particularly good news for
those of us who choose to drink the tap water in Belgium.
On the minus side, they begin digging outside our bedroom window at 7.00 and tend to cut off the water at random intervals during the day. This is scheduled to continue for a couple of months.

Today the Princess is being taken for a scan. She won’t like
that. It’s at lunchtime and she can’t eat for three hours
beforehand. She won’t like that either. I am nervous and I
can’t feel that this counts as “taking it easy”. Sniff.

I missed a major opportunity for fame. A friend is a journalist
on a magazine here and he asked would I be prepared to talk about my blog for an article on Belgian blogging. “Oh yes, new readers” I salivated but alas due to constant meetings at work (ref para 1), I missed the all important interview slot and didn’t make the article. Am gutted.

Comments
poggle

on 22 March 2005 at 11:23

Can I have your autograph?
And good luck with Princess/scans and lazing about …..

Peggy

on 22 March 2005 at 13:51

I am Belgian and I read you regularly. Feel better?
Too many readers destroy the pleasure. You’ll feel like you shouldn’t disappoint people and it won’t be natural anymore.
If you agree I’ll link you on my blog, I’m far from famous but that should attract more “francophone” readers for you.

Friar Tuck

on 22 March 2005 at 18:02

The cure for what ails you, and as luck would have it, the way to increase readership is to floss more often. Oh, sorry!

Angela

(Homepage)

on 23 March 2005 at 03:03

You will be missed.
Best wishes to you on your road to recovery!

belgianwaffle

on 23 March 2005 at 10:18

Jack, do you think, I dunno, I think fame would have suited me. Pog, join the orderly queue. Peggy, je suis tres contente, moi aussi je ferais un lien vers ton site! FT less of it from you. Tried to mail you a number of times but looks like your email is down. Speak to Messrs Peak Peak. FP, you mistake, I am promising more blog now that I am taking it easy, not less!

Happy Birthday to me

10 March, 2005
Posted in: Mr. Waffle

Mr. Waffle bought Bobble pictures for my birthday and they are gorgeous.  He explained that matters were fraught as poor Bobble has moved house and job and broken her toe but today they arrived – just in time and inscribed for me – is this not fabulous? Happy birthday to me indeed.

Birthday wishes

10 March, 2005
Posted in: Miscellaneous
Comments
NorahSplog

on 10 March 2005 at 13:54

Hoppy birdy Waffley x

Kate_Sith

on 10 March 2005 at 13:58

Happy birthday! All the most special people are having their birthdays this week.

gracehart

on 10 March 2005 at 14:14

Happy birthday… ^^

dmts

on 10 March 2005 at 14:30

Have a very happy birthday, waffly.

lauren35

on 10 March 2005 at 17:42

And may the coming year be better than the last one, but not as good as the one after ….. Happy Birthday!

jackdalton

on 12 March 2005 at 20:37

Breith-l? shone duit [is fearr mall n? go br?ch] agus La’ Feile Padraig faoi mhaise freisin 😉

belgianwaffle

on 22 March 2005 at 08:57

Thank you all very much for your kind wishes and go raibh maith agat Jack. Special thanks for the sweetie Kate.

Belated valentine

6 March, 2005
Posted in: Belgium

Comments
Beth

(Homepage)

on 10 March 2005 at 00:09

How friendly.

belgianwaffle

on 10 March 2005 at 09:41

Norah, glad you are pleased. Yes, Beth, the friendliness of the Belgians is notorious.

Tchoup, Tchoup

6 March, 2005
Posted in: Princess, Reading etc.

T’choupi is the world’s most boring mole.  Our infant daughter loves him.  They have a T’choupi book at the creche and she had to be wrenched away from it kicking and screaming.  Mr. Waffle decided we needed to lay in T’choupi resources of our own and went to the bookshop this weekend to stock up.  He couldn’t see any T’choupi stuff on the shelves, so he asked a bored assistant whether he was familiar with T’choupi the mole.  “No, can’t say I’ve heard of him….unless you mean T’choupi the famous mole?”  and he led Mr. Waffle round a corner to a shrine dedicated to T’choupi. Bingo.

Meanwhile the Princess and I were visiting the Glam Potter and little L.  It will come as no surprise to learn that L has her own T’choupi volume and the two girls sat on the floor tugging at it and screaming “T’choupi, T’choupi” until I came and separated the combatants and escorted herself, kicking and screaming (T’choupi) to the car.

What with one thing and another, “T’choupi” was my book of choice for mass this
morning.  We were somewhat mortified as we went through the mole’s adventures sotto voce to see that the child next to us had a range of religious books which he was carefully perusing.  Came home and related our discomfiture to Mr. Waffle.  “And” I said “one of the books was called ‘Je vous salue Marie'”.  “Yes?”.  “But don’t you tutoyer God along with parents, friends and pets?” “Oh yes but you vousvoyer Mary”.  Dear Lord will the mysteries of French never cease to baffle me?

Sarcophagic Sonnet

5 March, 2005
Posted in: Reading etc.

O my dearest friend
Let not thy vengeful ghost
Haunt those thoughts we shared together, you and I,
For thou art not
And I alone must seek solace with another.

Anyone for “I breathe Byron”?

Comments
belgianwaffle

on 10 March 2005 at 09:43

OK, it’s all over, there are only 2 verses.

poggle

on 18 March 2005 at 11:16

Genius. Really.

belgianwaffle

on 22 March 2005 at 08:55

Absolutely pog.

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