You normally have to turn this magazine upside down and back to front to get exhibition news, but on Saturday me and The Boy went to Hove Museum And Art Gallery and loved it, so this week you get all needs catered for, right here, right now.
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This week, I’m having to do my tax return. I’ve obviously been looking for distractions, and so I’ve come up with a revolutionary word-scale that will change the world. This ‘word-ometer’ rates words according to how important they are in a child’s life compared to an adult’s. By ‘child’ I’m referring to a five year old, as I haven’t got time/can’t be bothered to do further research. For ‘adult’ read pre-parent, as being in the same room as your child leads to being influenced by their bad habits, or ‘passive Lego syndrome’.
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This week, let’s start with a puzzle. Imagine you’re a farmer, and you need to get home, which is across a pond. Stay with me on this. You also need to take with you a fox, a goose and a bag of beans. Your boat only has room for you and one other thing. Problem is if you leave the fox alone with the goose, or the goose alone with the bag of beans, then the former’s going to eat the latter. How do you achieve your goal?
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In the recent snow, everyone seemed to lose their sense of humour, me included. Perhaps it’s normally over so quickly that the novelty doesn’t have time to wear off. Rather than leave the audience wanting more, this year the snow outstayed its welcome.
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“Here”, they say. “You’ll like this.” (The emphasis always on the ‘you’ like an accusation. You did it. It’s your fault. I feel just as tarnished.) Friends, family, work colleagues, everyone around me seems to have an iPhone, and they all seem evangelical about it, keen to show you some ‘funny’ or ‘impressive’ app. I’m half-expecting the milkman to ring our doorbell at 5am and, as I answer bleary-eyed, say, “Here. You’ll like this. Tip it up, see that? It looks like milk coming out a bottle. How it knows, I don’t know…”
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Before Christmas – when the snow had just started to melt – me and The Boy go to Hove Park. “If I stop,” he tells me, “it’s for one of two reasons, OK? I’m tired or I want to put my gloves on.” Along the Old Shoreham Road we step over a Shreddies box, flattened and preserved in a thin sheet of ice. “They should have put that in the recycling or the bin,” he tells me.
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Last week, the New Baby™ visited a castle for the first time. We were allowed to go too, as parents, and so was The Boy but the big significance was it being another first for the small one.
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OK then, so it’s the beginning of the year. Who can forget that Christmas? Especially the debacle involving the mulled wine and the scooter, and apologies for getting so childishly envious over that cracker gift. Thankfully, I got away with a caution. Sod it, I can’t keep up the pretence. Due to deadlines, I’m writing this in early December, and was trying to warm to my theme.
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If you asked me whether I want to give my sons a life of disappointment, frustration and hopes dashed, I‘d obviously answer no. Why then, am I considering educating them in supporting a football team, when I know what this means? Tying up your own mood with the fortunes of others?
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Housework stresses me out. In fact, just the thought of housework stresses me out. Which makes it all the stranger that New Baby finds the hoover calming. Sometimes just turning it on will stop him crying. Thing is, he’s not crying because of the dust – he’s not a clean freak who‘s noticed a small mark on the floor. No, the sound echoes being in the womb, so presumably it takes him back to calmer, safer days when he wasn’t out in the big, bad world. (To me, the reason why the world is bad is because of chores like hoovering, and you realise it’s big when you try and clean it).
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