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Archives for November 2014

Literary Holidays


Posted in: Princess, Travel

You will recall that we had a very successful house swap last summer (successful for us anyhow, I’m hoping it was successful for the French people also). We are now on this house swap website and people keep offering us their houses. So far we keep saying no as it’s a bit early for us to know what our plans are. Sample conversation.

Mr. Waffle: We don’t want to go to Brighton, do we?
Me: No, I don’t think so.
Herself: Oh Brighton, I must go to Brighton, I shall die, if I don’t go to Brighton.

No more Pride and Prejudice for her.

Harsh


Posted in: Princess

The Princess is taking drama after school [no better woman] and is to star in a modern version of Beauty and the Beast* where Beauty is a spoilt older sister.

She reported that she was told the news thus by her drama teacher [of whom she is very fond]: “You are the spoilt, bossy Beauty, you [pointing to small winsome child] are the lovely little sister and I am a casting genius.”

* Her father tells me that the play is called “Beauty is a Beast”.

Don’t Judge Me


Posted in: Boys, Daniel, Hodge

On Wednesday night I came in late. Daniel had made cheesy shapes in the afternoon and one of them was lying on the kitchen floor. I picked it up, blew on it and ate it. I did have some qualms but, you know, the floor was clean, I had blown on it [protection against all known germs], I was hungry and otherwise the cheesy shape would have gone in the bin. I noticed it seemed to have lost its cheese on the way to the floor and was mostly cheese flavoured dough.

I came back to the kitchen ten minutes later and there was another cheesy shape on the floor without its cheese. How could this be? Everyone was in bed. Who could have taken a cheesy shape from the plate on the counter, put it on the floor and eaten off all the cheese? That’s when I realised I had shared the previous cheesy shape with the cat. I put the next one in the bin.

Eco Warrier


Posted in: Boys, Michael

Me: Michael, stop turning off all the lights. I don’t want to be fumbling around in the dark whenever I go into the hall.
Him: Electricity is very expensive.
Me: I know, I pay the bills.
Him: We will all be paying the bills.

The Right Reason


Posted in: Reading etc.

Someone pointed out to me that in the romance languages, when you want to say that you are right, you say you have reason -j’ai raison, ho ragione – but that in the Germanic languages you say that you are/have right – ich habe rechts, I’m right.

I was charmed by this insight into how language makes our world view different, so, of course, I decided to tell the internet.

Can you believe how much NaBloPoMo is still left?

Culture


Posted in: Reading etc.

We went to see the small Greek orthodox chapel in Arbour Hill. Who knew that there were sufficient members of the Greek orthodox community here to support a church? Mr. Waffle and I went in, the boys sat outside expressing zero interest and a strong desire to go home and commune further with the x-box. The Princess was at a party.

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The Princess and I saw a pebble dash house constructed in the yard of the museum to make us think about house design.

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We also got to see the Anglo-Irish bank sign. When it came down, it was saved for the nation. To inspire bitterness in current and future generations, one can only assume.

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Mr. Waffle and I finally watched “What Richard Did“. Beautiful cinematography; my sister calls that the kiss of death for a film. People loved this film which came out in 2012. It had the potential to be interesting and plot driven but instead it was boring though beautiful to look at.

Mr. Waffle and I also went to the opening film of the French film festival, “Bande de Filles“. It’s about a group of young, black female friends in the Parisian suburbs. It’s very good on the limited options open to these girls and how hard it is for them to escape from various unhappy destinies but it doesn’t really have a narrative arc and could have ended at a number of different points. One of the actresses was there and it was so strange because in the film she is the leader of the gang, quite intimidating and fills the screen whereas in reality she is tiny and seems very self-effacing though quietly confident.

Yesterday, the Princess and I went to a musical interlude in the new(ish) theatre in the docklands where I had never been before. I had written about this at some length but failed to save it. Here is a summary: It was musical, it was short and it was mildly enjoyable.

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