satellites with rings

Interesting conversation with Kristian yesterday afternoon while we were waiting outside the school for the girls.
(K is Kristian, J is me and M is my mother.)

K: I can see two moons in the sky!
J: That’s interesting..
M: yes .. especially since this planet only has one moon.
K: I can see TWO moons!
J: Are you sure they’re both moons?
K: Yes.
J: (partly to self) “That’s no moon..”
K: Yes, there are two moons.
J: Oh.
K: What do you think it is?
J: Oh, I thought maybe it was a Death Star.
K: What?
J: A Death Star.
K: A dead star?
M: Death Star.
K: It’s not a dead star.
J: Not dead, Death! Death Star.
K: A deaf star?
Now we are becoming somewhat amused.
M: No, not a deaf star. That would be a star that couldn’t hear. A Death Star.
K: A Jeff star?
Laughter.
M: Yes, it’s a Jeff star.
K: I can see one moon and one Jeff star! … When’s Abigail going to come out?

And some grown-up embarrasment thanks to Stephanie. She was tidying up the dining table that had become somewhat swamped in kid’s belongings and scraps of paper and things. And apparently one such scrap left behind by an adult. I was in the kitchen and she walks in holding up a small piece of card. “Do you need this?” she asks.

I look, and squint to figure out what it is. It’s the insert from the packet of something that Daniel bought a month or two ago came in. I only read as far as the words “Cock Ring”. Oh my god. “No, put it in the bin,” I tell her in a rush, trying to seem casual.

She leans over and puts it in the bin and I start to breathe a sigh of relief. That could have been awkward. But then she turns back around. “What’s a cock ring?”

SHITE! “Er.. nothing. Just nevermind.”

“Should I look it up on Google?”

“NO!” I all but yell, picturing the kind of results you’d get for that particular search. “NO! Do not do that.” Fuck a duck. I sigh. “It’s… a thing for grown-ups.”

“Oh.” She gets an embarrased look on her face and rapidly goes away. Hooray for ten-year-olds being embarrased by the thought of sex.

satellites with rings

the beatles != the wiggles

Yesterday my mother and I went into Bargain Box to look at some fabric. While we were in there, the radio they had on played Hello Goodbye. Ever since then, the song as been stuck in my head. I had mentioned at one stage that I would need to look it up and play it to get it out, but I forgot to do that yesterday. This morning Abigail asked me if I could do it because she was singing some of the words that she’d picked up from my repeated ‘performances’. So I searched for it, and this is the video I found.

As it started to play and she ambled up behind me to watch, there was a shot of one of them (George?) wearing a pirate style hat with a big feather on it. I imagine that they wouldn’t have appreciated when Abigail exclaimed “Oh, it’s The Wiggles!” (No doubt likening the feathered hat to that of Captain Feathersword.)

the beatles != the wiggles

kids weather

Mr Flagrant Disregard, who you may remember from such productions as “FD’s Flickr Toys“, has made a very cool new site: KidsWeatherReport.com/. You put in your location and it shows the weather in a very simple and kid-friendly way. Just the upper and lower temperature and then pictures to indicate the conditions, and also another picture to show whether it’s “warm clothes” or “cool clothes” or “umbrella” kind of weather.

Stephanie is often asking me what the weather is going to be like, so I am going to put this on her computer and hopefully, have peace!

kids weather