Tag: children

  • Sleep and play.

    Parent (wilting somewhat): ‘Aren’t you tired?’ Child (leaping around room): ‘No! I can sleep and play at the same time. Do you know why? Because I play in my dreams!’

  • Another bairnling

    ‘That one is actually a night-time jumper, because those flowers there are actually stars.’ Makes sense to me.

  • eruptions

    Last week, Sunday 24 August, we had a gang of bairns round to test out the new trampoline. About mid-day on a hot day the shout went up: flying ants....

  • Pinball

    From Ray, my son: ‘Was pinball the game where you launched a ball and then you had to edit everything really fast so that the ball reached its destination?’

  • Acquainted things have happened

    Well, I’ve hauled the bedraggled blog from Blogger to WordPress. Why, exactly, is not quite clear to me; one of those fretful decisions arrived at through an accumulation of tiny...