Eldest Son has got Swine Flu. He appeared crying, boiling hot and complaining of a terrible headache and awful cough in the middle of the night on Monday. Wife `phoned the Doctor and was told that there was no point testing him as the results would take two weeks to come through, by which point [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Eldest Son’
This Little Piggy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family, Swine Flu, Tamiflu, Wife on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Archimedes’ Living Arrangements
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Archimedes, Eldest Son, Family on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eldest Son had to write about “a famous scientist” for school on the weekend. Grimly aware that the teachers would be subjected to any number of “Sir Isaac Newton and the Apple” stories from the assembled 6 year-olds, I took him through the story of Archimedes, the golden crown, Eureka etc… It was when he [...]
Impoverished in Waterstone’s
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiswick, Eldest Son, Family, Jonathan Bate, Waterstone's on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I thought Eldest Son had been kidnapped today. This is (as with any parent) the nightmare to end all nightmares, and it strikes me most forcibly when Wife is (as she was today) engaged elsewhere. Shepherding three children, particularly around the catnip-filled lagoons of Chiswick’s Waterstone’s, is pretty heavy-going – and so I am always [...]
A Question of Theology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were in the park. Eldest Son saw a woman in Middle Eastern dress: a long robe, her head covered (though her face visible). He turned to us and asked “Is that Mary?” – as in The Madonna. Perfect.
Hurrah for School!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anya Hindmarch, Eldest Son, School on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 28th April 2007 Scenes of jubilation and happiness in our current house (though not for much longer): Eldest Son has got into the school! He is already there in the Nursery class, but we had to re-apply for Reception – and now he is in. Let Joy be unconfined – especially as this makes [...]
Concerned Gloating Face
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, School on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 29th April 2007 Mass this morning was something of a let-down. Traditionally, the first Mass after School D-Day is something of an event, with the question “Did you get in?” on everyone’s lips: it’s a game of Chicken as to who actually speaks it and how long one can skirt around the subject without [...]
Dulux da Vinci
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Father in Law, Fiona Shaw, School on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 8th July 2007 Much is made (fairly, I’ll agree) of Michelangelo’s painting of The Sistine Chapel ceiling. Lying on his back, less than a foot away from the ceiling, the project took him four years. Today, I too have been painting scenes of a religious nature. Perhaps not comparable to Buonarotti’s masterpiece – but [...]
Pirate vs. Yoda vs. Batman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Holiday on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday, 31st July 2007 Not one of those drinking games played by medical students: rather it is Eldest Son’s traveling outfit quandary. I have lobbied hard for Pirate, having found out that ONLY LAST WEEK included the venerable occasion of “Talk Like A Pirate For A Day”, and we both agreed that the head to [...]
“This is Inna”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birthday, Eldest Son, Family, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday, 27th November 2007 Today is Eldest Son’s fifth birthday. He is (along with Wife, Youngest Son and Daughter) the light of my life: kind, clever, funny and beautiful – but he used to be utterly and entirely mad – including his insistence (when he was MORE than able to talk) to insist that his [...]
Some Resolutions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Paris, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 13th January 2008 1) Not to eat an entire Waitrose Fruit and Ginger Cake in the course of one day. 2) To view my spending a whole day watching a boxset of “Jonathan Creek” over a weekend as time wasted. 3) To be a “self-starter”. 4) Not to give myself away with the expression [...]
