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Making a Stand
Posted May 15, 2006
Nipper Observations. 3 in a series.
Last week, youngest nipper wore her summer dress to school for the first time this year. Why? The weather? No, not really. Another girl in her class had worn hers the day before and had been teased by the others. Youngest nipper came home and said "I'm wearing my summer dress. I'm wearing it tomorrow. If they are going to tease her, they're going to have to tease me too".
Good on her.
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Got round to taking the Christmas tree down on the weekend
Posted Mar 28, 2006
Better late than never!
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Spotted Dick
Posted Mar 14, 2006
Nipper Observations. 2 in a series.
Youngest nipper. She's 9. We were having lunch in the pub a few weeks back and it was time for the puddings.
The missus passed the desert menu board to youngest nipper, who got to the third line down and started sniggering. A 9 year-old kind of snigger.
So, what was the third entry down? 'Spotted Dick'.
9 year-olds eh? What would we do without them?
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Mods vs Rockers
Posted Feb 6, 2006
Nipper Observations. 1 in a series.
It was always going to go full circle...
When I was 11, there was a fighting season at school, and this particular year it was "mods vs rockers". In real, real life, at round about the same time there were mods and rockers having gang fights on the beach (at Great Yarmouth, I think) on the August bank holiday weekend.
Yes folks, it was 1979/1980.
Now being a good kid, I didn't get involved in the fighting (actually, although the _idea_ of it consumed the school, hardly anyone actually did any real fighting). However, my overriding memory was one of having to decide...
... was I a mod or a rocker?
- I still had the 70s long hair, rather than a number 2 all over, or a skinhead. So by default I was a rocker then?
- However, I had a pair of two-tone trousers, and a bomber jacket, and a harrington. So that made me a mod, surely?
- But, I sneakily wore DMs (not 14-hole or anything daft) as school shoes. So, I was a rocker after all?
Who knows. I was neither. I was just a kid trying to fit in to something, anything.
So. It goes full circle.
Eldest nipper is 11. He came home from school a couple of nights ago reporting the potential fight that was going to happen on the field... between the... get this... the "chavs vs grungies".
The fight never happened. But, the school was consumed by the idea of it. And eldest nipper was having to decide, when it came down to it...
...was he a chav or a grungie?
- He has his hair long (not curtains or anything daft). So by default he's a grungie then?
- However, he's got a couple of 'hoodie' tops, and stupidly flared combat jeans. So that makes him a chav, surely?
- But, he wears boots, not trainers. So, he's a grungie after all?
Who knows. He's neither. He's just a kid trying to fit in to something, anything.
Yep. It'll go full circle. You mark my words.
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Looking back, and looking forward
Posted Jan 5, 2006
New year and all that.
Thought I'd look back over a few previous journal entries and stuff. Tie up some loose ends (well, loose thoughts anyway).
The object of the exercise is to leave that stuff there. Its all gone and happened now. Draw a line under it and carry on.
Now I guess that doesn't mean draw a line under it and ignore it, but _learn_ from the bits that need to be learnt from, and _let_lie_ the things that need to be let lie, and _do_ something about the things that need to have something done about them.
I've thought of a good example: The car(s). I've scrapped two cars in a matter of months. But I've not filled in the red forms on the log books and ticked the appropriate boxes and sent them off to the DVLA.
So, I shall resolve as follows:
1) Learn something: Know when to let go and stop spending money on trying to get an old car fixed.
2) Let something lie: Appreciate the comedy elements of the last moments with that most recent heap of junk.
3) Do something: Fill in log books and send them off. Suspend the insurance policy.
Hey, I'm feeling better already.
Now what else can I revisit and draw a line under...
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