Food shopping with youngest, who is now interested in the origins of her food. I'm browsing in the meat section for free-range chicken, which occasionally graces our local supermarket.
"What's this?"she enquires.
"It's stewing lamb."
"Where does it come from?"
"From sheep."
"What's this?"
"Beef... from cows."
Determined to get things clear, she announces in a clear, penetrating voice, that includes all the other shoppers:
"So that's a dead sheep and that's a dead cow."
Turning vegetarian never seemed so attractive!
A rainy winter's day, yet another one (this is an extraordinarily English winter we are having this year), when using the sofa to practise their 'jumps' is enough to keep all three happy for hours. I wanted to hold on to the memory of just that - simple pleasures and the three of them cooperating, taking turns and inventing elaborate rules for their game.
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The children going through our 'oldies' albums, choosing Billy Joel and my 9 year old son informing me that he likes No.s 1 and 4 best..that is My Life and Fashion (the one that starts 'What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing'), dancing along to it with a grin on his face, whilst I reflect that in less than 3 years he is probably going to be the teenager from the song and forswear Billy Joel, and all his parents' music collection, for at least another 20 years, as hideously uncool.
I remember at eleven, thinking Abba was a cool sound to do Lego to, one year later realising my mistake. It only took another twenty years for Abba to be danced to with a pinch of irony... now I happily wash up to it, any consideration of cool long departed through the window.
you'd be surprised how quickly "our" music will become cool again... i took my teenage daughter to a billy joel concert last year and she LOVED it, despite the fact that we were by far the youngest people in our row ;-)
ReplyDeleteA lovely post Kit. Sometimes I wish you could "bottle" those moments too.
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