cos the alternative option would involve some sort of criminal conviction for child abuse 🙂 And probably do even less for the public image of HE than an article in The Observer with children in their pjs playing X box instead of lapbooks on the life cycle of a frog 🙂
I have a bad back today. I am hoping it is a combined effects of the last week’s activities (carting a child round Legoland, sleeping in a bunk bed, throwing up in an energetic manner, walking miles along pebbly beaches, carting a different child round a nursery for a horticultural open day, and sleeping in an odd position in bed last night for a record 8 hours unbroken sleep 🙂 ) type ailment as opposed to anything more sinister or medical attention requiring. Anyway, we went to the library this morning to return some books, borrow some more, a quick peep in the bookshop resulting in a couple of Dr Seuss style work book type publications. Upon our return I was really stiff having struggled to drive, do my seatbelt and particularly reverse the car back into the drive. I managed to drop the car/house keys as I was getting Davies out of the car. I asked him to pick them up for me and he ran up to the front door with them.
As I was getting Scarlett and the books out of the car I heard him fiddling with the letterbox and the thought went through my mind before being dismissed as him not being *that* silly.
WRONG!!!
I would say several facts aided his current state of still being alive, they were:
I had my mobile phone with me,
my brother happened to be at home,
his home is a mere five minute drive away from our home,
there is a spare key to our house at his home,
he brought it straight round,
the sun was shining,
my back would have made physical violence slightly ineffective as I was incapable of chasing him, pinning him down or swinging my arm back before walloping him with it,
oh and of course I don’t agree with corporal punishment anyway 🙂
Aargh! What a potentially nightmare scenario. Glad it worked out OK in the end
Comment by Jan — 19 April 2005 @ 3:59 pm
Mmmm……. bit like “mummy.. i’ve accidentally done it again…” “Done WHAT again?” “Accidentally stuck a bead up my nose…”
Now if you’d been 41 weeks pregnant, you’d have a )had a proper reason for a bad back b) had no phone, no spare key anywhere, been in a monsoon c) all your family and ady would have been holidaying in the maldives…
Grin…
Comment by Merry — 19 April 2005 @ 4:20 pm
I know I shouldn’t laugh…..
(at Davies and the keys, NOT your bad back- ouch!!)
Like your photos.
Maya is really, really two atm!
Comment by Heather — 19 April 2005 @ 9:53 pm
Not laughing, too busy sympathising!
(Note to self – must sort out a spare key!)
Glad you got in again quickly, and hope your back feels better tomorrow.
Comment by Alison — 19 April 2005 @ 10:55 pm
I thought about you Alison when it happened 🙂
We’re planning a spare key too – although these things never seem to get past planning!
Comment by Nic — 20 April 2005 @ 8:11 am
not laughing too much here 😉 , hope your back is better today.
Comment by Sarah — 20 April 2005 @ 9:41 am