There used to be an occassional spot on the Big Breakfast when Johnny Vaughn was presenting it (used to be S, now not so sure) called Young Fogey. It would feature little kids who had old fashioned hobbies like keeping ferrets, racing pigeons or playing ‘when I’m cleaning windows’ on the banjo.
Davies could go on that if it was still on TV. His hobby? Talking with the vocabulary of an old bloke smoking a pipe and reminicing about the good old days!
At the pub on Friday he suddenly came over to me and annouced ‘mummy it’s bad news’ with a really solemn look on his face.
‘What’s that darling?’ asked I
‘There are people cigaretting!’ he said, totally outraged and pointing to all the lagered up folk in the beer garden with their silk cut!
This morning he came downstairs dressed in Ady’s pants, one of Ady’s pompey tops and a woolly hat.
‘Look at me Mummy. Daddy saw me and he laughed like a drain!’
And today when Dad asked what we did yesterday and we were saying we’d been to Chris and Julie’s he suddenly announced:
‘ we were *supposed* to be going there on Thursday but Daddy (rolled eyes in Ady’s direction) took Mummy’s keys with him so we had to stay in the house ALL day long. Mummy was very very cross and she was grumpy all day’
Alison you’re right, I’ve no need to worry about him. Apart from the risk of him getting beaten up for being such a goody goody at HESFES 2012 as he hands out leaflets on the dangers of drugs, issues condoms and tries to organise some sort of dress code to the whole place 🙂
LOL there were a couple of things that Davies said when we were round at yours that fit that, but I can’t remember what they were. A kind of British eccentricity about them, very endearing, and characterful.
Comment by Ali — 29 May 2005 @ 11:01 pm
ROFL! Poppy had a very good Victorian child going on at a similar age – called me mother for about a year – wish I’d been blogging then so I could remember some of her expressions 🙂
And agree with you re JV 😉
Comment by Alison — 30 May 2005 @ 9:31 am
ROFLOL xxx
Comment by Karen b — 30 May 2005 @ 5:27 pm