Flipper could have sorted the BP oil leak. He would have dragged a cap down, fitted it, cleaned up, saved a kid, and eaten a fish. He is probably busy coughing up tarballs though. Bugger.
Archive for July 14th, 2010
The Janus faced coalition.
July 14, 2010For weeks I have been trying to write a post, expressing how I feel about this coalition, and the difficulties in opposing them. Anyhow- Jonathon Freedland does it way better.
Rachel’s first theme park.
July 14, 2010I took Rachel to a theme park yesterday. I have to say, it was very British. Peeling (occasionally creepy) fibreglass animals, animatronic dancing snowmen, staff who could have been dinner ladies at my school, and a cafe selling cups of tea in polystyrene cups that reinforced the drizzle and chill of a British summer day.
But there was no uberselling, no overpriced crappy merchandise targetted at kids- no ‘we have you hostage and now we are going to make your purse bleed’-whole day cost £20.
If you are 3, enormous indoor play centres, houses from your favourite fairytales, a real pirate ship, fibreglass lollipop castles, tractors you feel like you are driving and rocky road trains…awesome. If you are there with everyone from your nursery AND your mum- AMAZING.
By the time I had deposited Rachel unconscious into bed at her dads, I felt like I had been clubbed over the head, and may have fallen asleep before the take away I ordered arrived. I might eat it for breakfast.
