Happy Mothers Day to any of you that partake in such rituals, and an extra special hello to Jahteh and Lady Duck (and anyone else who has lost their children).
My MD treat was a cooked breakfast in bed then being allowed to have as long as I wanted to print book pages in the BookStud without guilt-inducing phonecalls or pleas to come home. As it turned out, I was horrendously hung-over from a wee dinner-party with my sister outlaw and her current moistie* plus Zoe and Owen and squillions of little boys here at Chez Duck (details of the food to be guested posted at Progrock Dinner Party when I pull my finger out), so I only managed to print 200 pages with many quick breaks to play Scramble and Scrabble and unscramble my braincells, and I was home by 5.30pm, ready for a hair of the dog. It was a pretty good printing day, but not to full capacity.
Best Beloved took Bumblebee to see the Duntroon Dixieland Band at Old Parliament House (I made up a song about it tonight to the tune of 'Spiderpig' (Spiderman) to amuse B and now I can't get it out of my head:
Dixieband, Dixieband
Does whatever a Dixieband does..
Does it swing? Yes it can,
It can swing, it's a Dixieband.
Look out! Duntroon Dixieband...)
and then they went to JB HiFi, BB's fav shop, to spend his birthday money. He came home with series 2 of Jonathon Creek and a couple of other things. Bumblebee, despite having been with BB when he bought it, asked him tonight why he'd bought series 2 and not series 1. We have a family policy of answering dumb questions with equally dumb answers, so I wasn't surprised at the start of this exchange, but I was most admiring by the rest of it:
BB: Well, the makers of Jonathon Creek decided that it was such a good concept that they wouldn't bother making a first series, just jump straight in with series two.
B (clicking): Oh yeah, right...
BB: BUMBLEBEE, do you think I'm making this up?
B: Yeah, of course!
BB: So the makers of Star Wars jumped right in at the first movie, did they?!
B: ...
[He started looking puzzled and scratched his head, until I completely lost it and started giggling.]
It was fun to watch it tonight; I'd forgotten how much I like Maddy as a character.
*I've always wanted to use that line, but now I feel guilty. He's a lovely man, and it was nice to meet him :)
3 comments:
I got tea and toast in bed for my mothers' day, but from Jay, as D'Arcy was already at his dad's due to a Busy Weekend. I saw him later though.
I like BB's answer very much!
My niece sent me a hand-illustrated card for Aunties' Day. She rocks my world.
Thank you Mother Duck.
Word Verification is 'moony' and I am re-reading Harry.
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