Last week's cooking job came with in-house entertainment, it was half term, no electronic games in the house and the television was curiously only able to receive a signal for a couple of hours each day, so the children had to work out what to do for themselves, after a bit of bored flopping around someone has an idea
Let’s put on a show!
they disappear excitedly to start rehearsals, only to return after an hour, the project has been abandoned due to artistic differences.
The two girls then decide that they will do 'Dancing On Ice’
One child strips down to her underwear and the other ran off to get her swimsuit and goggles on, they explain;
in Dancing on Ice you have to have bare arms and bare legs
They wafted around the kitchen, describing their sequinned outfits, one child dancing with a stuffed whale while the other, embracing a column of air, told me about her handsome partner
He has long brown hair and a blue hair band
then she stopped dancing and asked her friend
Do we have to be in love with our partner?
The girl with the whale continued dancing and replied dreamily
I’m in love with mine
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It seems to be compulsory on such shows, at least on a temporary basis.
ReplyDeleteIf only desperate lady needed you permanently, this sounds like a dream of a house to work in.
ReplyDeletebared skinned children in the depths of winter...obviously some poeple have better heated houses than ours!
ReplyDeletesound like cute kids...was the show any good?
What is this an E. Nesbit story? Three children and hardly any TV and no electronic games? Ice Dancing for the private chef with handsome invisible partners? I suppose you have been asked to cook vegetables and organic foods for them too.
ReplyDeleteMadame Def - I gather that falling in love is compulsory for reality shows to be really real.
ReplyDeleteEryl - I know, DL is only desperate at school holidays.
Screamish - I seem to recall that children are impervious to cold until secondary school.
K - you got it, healthy proper eating with everyone at the table - talking to each other!!
If there's an extra kid about, have them play the part of the crooked judges who throw the results!
ReplyDeletehealthy proper eating with everyone at the table - talking to each other!!
ReplyDeletelovely, sugar! absolutely lovely! super nana still remembers the postprandial conversations at our table. her students are amazed that that it was a nightly occurrence! xoxoxo
I'm scoring them both 10 for that performance. Wonderful delivery. But imaginary man needs to lose the hairband next week.
ReplyDeleteAhhhhh! Woolfoot is right on the button with the Nesbit, I knew I'd heard this story somewhere before. Let her keep the whale for as long as possible, it'll save everybody much anguish in her teenage years.
ReplyDeleteGlory's right. The headband has to go
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased they didn't try to re-enact What Katie Did Next, otherwise you could have spent hours blowing up balloons.
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Has this made you yearn for little Labonnes or has it had the desired effect and put you off kids for life?
ReplyDeleteDo you think the parents have fiddled with the tv to only let it come on for a bit each day? Sounds highly suspicious to me.
xl - They were still in ehearsals when I left them, but I'm sure the boys will be the perfect crooked judges
ReplyDeleteSav - I do think that dining together experience sticks - hopefully in a good way!
Glory and Nursey - Seems I'll be going back there for Easter, I'll make sure headbands have been banished by then.
Gadjo - If only girls would stick with the whales
Scarlet you could have spent hours blowing up balloons
*guffaws* and we'd have had to find some prize turnips for the girls to fall in love with.
French - I've always been dubious about the idea of little Labonnes, borrowing other people's children whenever I get a bit broody has always worked as a contraceptive for me.
I think you've spotted where the telly reception issue comes from.
I do love most beans except for lima but my son won't partake it reminds of being little when we were poor and not of being grown and poor as we are now. But. What is orange sauce? White beans on toast sounds like it could be bruschetta in a way.
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The orange sauce on a Heinz Baked Bean is made of sugar, salt and flavourings pretending to be tomato.
ReplyDeleteThank you madam - I now want proper white beans on good chargrilled Italian bread soaked in rosemary and olive oil.
Oh glord. With lots and lots of garlik!
ReplyDeleteWe eat. And pass gas.
xo
That's funny and, I hate to say it but, its precious. Does that make me a romantic??
ReplyDeleteYes - well you must've had a whale of a time ;-) My children do strange things like removing their clothing too when 'the TV is BROKEN.' Children are indeed impervious to cold until they turn 12 for a brief time only - then they turn 13 and think that belly buttons should once again be flaunted in winter...
ReplyDeletePiss off the lot of you, my hairband's lovely. And the whale stays too, she's kinda sexy.
ReplyDeleteGracious I love to come visit you.
ReplyDeleteRadish Lady - Garlic is always compulsory - as is gas - and taxis
ReplyDeleteMr Jelly - You are clearly an incurable romantik
Ange - At least there's one year of sense in yours
Inky - Hairband's are a bit early Beckham - but if you're happy with that look ...
Alphawoman - Nice to have you here
Ain't it great what happens when you switch the TV off?
ReplyDeleteThere were a lot of brother/sister acts in last night's ice dancing compo.
ReplyDeleteWe do the same thing in our house, only with more gas.
ReplyDeleteUberGrumpy - there is a lot to be said for the 'off' switch
ReplyDeleteMJ There were a lot of brother/sister acts in last night's ice dancing compo.
What're you saying?
Mr Red - I love this picture I have of you all dancing with helium cetacea
How wonderful. Children with imagination! :¬)
ReplyDeletexxx
So glad you've had some fun at work at last. (p.s. I'm posting again at last)
ReplyDeleteThat was the vodka talking.
ReplyDeleteIf only I could translate.
I remember having to be in shows put on by my sister and her friends when we were children. I guess I grew to be somewhat normal.
ReplyDeleteI love playing with my grandkids. It's a chance to bring out my inner child again.
I've put "Dancing on Ice" on ice.
ReplyDeleteMap - Don't they all have it - it's just a question of the age it gets electronicked out of them.
ReplyDeleteSynchy - It was fun... too brief
MJ - You've got talking vodka? - hey it should meet my talking whisky
BB - Little girls aren't so much fun to the little boys and pets who get roped in eh?
Ellis - If only they would X the X Factor
Don't let them watch Four Weddings.
ReplyDeleteDon't let me watch Four Weddings.
But, by God, it's brilliant.
Sx
Eerie timing since the Orca at Sea World took down his third human.
ReplyDeleteI notice that the editors have resorted to calling it a Killer Whale to jazz up the headline.
Sorry, off topic but it is a coinky dink of sorts.
I love watching children's enactment of film Scarley - Titanic was pure gold.
ReplyDeleteDonn - Whales asserting themselves - I like that!
That last line really made me LOL.
ReplyDeleteHa! Been in love with stuffed whales myself...
ReplyDeleteKat - great to see you,
ReplyDeleteMrs Cow - Whales - whether they are leafy, stuffed or eating their trainers - rock!