WFH week 5 cont.
Classy Bird
It's interesting to see how the kids have changed and grown over the last few weeks. While Eva has always been quite bolshy, she's always been quite shy too, though she does seem to be losing her inhibitions a little.
On our bike ride today, for example, in between the usual grumbles about hills going up as well as down, she announced loudly:
"Dad, stop! Me knickers are up me bum!"
She then stood in the middle of the street groping around and hoiking them out before screaching:
"Urgh, they're all wet!"
An elaborate finger sniffing session commenced (Henry and I stayed well clear at this point, pretending we didn't know her) before she confirmed:
"It's ok, it's just sweat!"
Hmmm, maybe a few more inhibitions wouldn't hurt.
We Are Sailing
Somebody in the street is playing very loudly what I can only guess is Rod Stewarts Greatest Hits. I am not a Rod Stewart fan.
It's difficult to tell where it's coming from, but I bet its the couple over the road with the hot tub.
I forget their names, but we have seen more of them than any of our other neighbours. I don't mean 'seen' in the socialising sense, I mean we have quite literally seen a lot of them. They use the hot tub all year round and though their fence is well over six feet high, there are lots of gaps which are more revealing than they seem to realise, hence I'm reluctant to look out the window to see if I can tell where the music is coming from.
I'm hoping they wear flesh coloured swimming costumes, but I'm not convinced.
I get my own back though, I never shut our bedroom curtains when I'm getting changed.
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The music later switched to the BeeGees, first up was 'How Deep is Your Love' which contains the lyric "Cause we're living in a world of fools". How apt.
Wasps
I've just seen my first wasp of the year.
I'm scared of wasps.
I spent many years denying I was scared of wasps and instead just pretending I didn't like them, but I really am scared of them. Like eyes wide, palms sweaty, chest tight type of scared.
Unfortunately the wife is the 'run around waving her arms in the air screaming' scared tyoe, so 1. She's passed the fear on to the kids, 2. Wasps must have learned that screaming and arm waving means people are scared, so it entices them even more, and 3. As she's running around it leaves me having to deal with them.
Strangely I'm not scared of bees. I think it's because bees are chubby little bundles of fluffy honey-making loveliness, while wasps are angry stripey bastards.
I need to go lie down and stop thinking about wasps.
Norse Mythology Extra Marital Schenanigans
I googled 'Wednesday' today. Yep, it was one of those days.
Wednesday, Wikipedia insightfully tells me, is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. Factual, if not exactly ground breaking.
According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week (who knew there was an international standard for days of the week?) and is named after the Norse God Odin.
Odin was married to Frigg (chortle) who we get the name Friday from. And presumably another word too, but I won't go there, this is a family friendly blog after all.
We get the name Thursday from Thor, which left me wondering why Thor pops up between Odin and his missus.
And that, people, is how rumours start.
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