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Oh filthy poo, I’m 52.
The joke’s on you, Father Time - I’ve been saying I’m 52 all year, so this doesn’t seem like a step up at all. Ha ha, I win.
Lovely home made cards - my daughter had stuck what looked like all her most precious gems to the front of my card - and a very banana-y banana cake with Elsa and Spiderman on it were waiting for me at breakfast and we went out for my favourite ever birthday party, with a guest limited to people who live in my house at Pizza Express. It’s as good as it gets. And I ate more in one sitting than I have done at any point this year and probably set my diet back a month. But I enjoyed it so much.
When we got back home I started running the bath, Phoebe was insistent that I draw a pair of shoes on some card for her. I said there wasn’t time, but she really wanted a picture of some shoes, so I relented and drew round the shoes she’d been wearing and made a half-arsed attempt to draw in some detail. She then wanted sellotape or blu-tack, though I couldn’t really understand why. I got on with putting her brother in the bath and Phoebe had gone downstairs. It was only when my wife came up that I found out what Phoebe had been up to. She’d drawn a big black cross through the shoe picture and stuck it to the bannister downstairs. What we had created was a sign saying “No Shoes Upstairs”.
This isn’t really a rule in the house and I don’t know where she’d got the idea of having this warning was, but what tickled me about it was that I was still wearing my shoes. Usually I do take them off, but we’d been in a rush and I still had them all. So all that time she was trying to get me to draw the shoes, she was planning to chastise me with the very sign that I had co-created.
The sign is still there. It makes me laugh every time I see it. But also reminds me not to wear shoes upstairs. It’s funny and informative.
My daughter thinks she is in charge of the house. This is only going to get worse.
A bonus audio only RHLSTP with Kay Mellor is now up in the usual places.
Like here.
RHLSTPs in Henley, Canterbury, York and loads in Edinburgh are imminent
come along.If you want to get something for my birthday, then a ticket for a RHLSTP is the perfect gift! (for you, not me I see it for free)
