penguins
air hockey
i had yesterday off work as we were expecting builders to start work (now delayed 2 weeks – ho hum). since jane was at work and the girls don’t start back at school until tomorrow we went off adventuring, which involved ten pin bowling.
kezia beat esther, and in classic ‘loser is the chooser’ mode she chose air hockey as the follow up gain which she won. ‘winner chooses dinner’ meant we dined like kings chez McD’s before heading home to watch ponkyhonta 2 on VHS (retro). which wasn’t as tearful for the watchers as ponky 1.
on the subject of old fashioned technology we scoured the second hand shops for Playstation 1 games as the girls favourite one departed at the same time as our house guests last week much to their sadness (tears for that too!). A man in computer shop said “sorry, we don’t do retro games”. Esther said “don’t worry dad, we don’t have the latest computer games but we do have lots of adventures” which is good to know.
sticky taping the jigsaw
turned out this picture had all fallen apart so they had to sticky tape all the pieces back together.
recycling information
we could have taken this box away and had a lovely evening speculating about other people’s lives using the short messages in unknown people’s christmas cards. but we didn’t.
is jane lost ?
lots off
i recon they’ve taken more than 70% off
hassock of the week
here’s a very special hassock of the week. it was made by my mum when we were little. it was from a kit i think. i found the photo yesterday in a big pile of family photos which jane kindly extracted from the loft, and the memories came flooding back. i wonder where this hassock is now – probably where it was back then.
the king’s table
fancy table set for a fancy dinner party with fancy guests. very nice.
danger at the zoo
for example you might have a chunk bitten out of your little finger
or perhaps 2 of your fingers and most of your hand pecked off
which is probably why they left some gloves on these railings
here’s a good danger medley
even apples are forbidden
and of course, special signs for the lemurs are in order.
never smile at a lemur when you’ve got food near by
