Tea? (Part 2)

[Arch]

I'm home!

And knackered!

And have a sore throat.

I've hoovered up a chinese takeaway, and now I think I might actually lie down for a bit with a second cuppa.

I didn't sleep all that well last night, due to the throat, and was visited by a small boy at 7am, to show me his teddy bear... I may have been a bit bleary at that stage.

Still, I had a good time. The boys are, mostly*, adorable,

*tired 4 year olds are a bit of handful.

Tea!

 

[TheDoctor]

How about this one?
Found it on B3ta.com. It does at least include tea...

 

[Arch]

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How about this one?
Found it on B3ta.com. It does at least include tea...

That's sad!

When we said goodbye, Oli allowed me a hug, and a kiss, and a high five. Max just high-fived, but I don't suppose he knew I was going away. He'll have to watch 'Here comes the Train' with someone else.

 

[TheDoctor]

It is rather. Still, the course of true love never did run smooth, said the Dalek to the dustbin.
Just researching a 100k ride for tomorrow, and wondering if I can meet up with the much-missed Waffles (formerly of this parish).
And my mug appears to be empty.

 

[Arch]

Arch, can you ask your sister for a phonetic spelling translation of Max's conversation?

Well, here's my own Concise Max-ford Dictionary:

Teeeeeeeeeeee! - Train
P! P! (while looking up at sky) - Plane
Cac cac - Tractor
Meow - Cat
Ohohay - Monorail
Ssshh - fish
ca! - car
Cacaarrrr - water (?!)


Mummy, and Daddy of course are easy. But his best pronounced words are:

Ah-puuuullll! - Apple

and

Digger!

When he wanted the Train DVD on, he would come and say "Teeeeeeee" insistently. He'd then reinforce the order, by bringing you the DVD case, and the remote control. Sometimes, he'd do all this, while it was actually playing! The boy is obsessed....

 

[ianrauk]

isn't that strange.. Apple is one of the words Henry loves saying

Along with
Car
Bu..(Bus)
Taxi
Ar-chi (his friend at child minders)
Kya (Kiya the dog next door)
Pease (Please)
Ta
Shok (Sock)
Shoe
Tick Tock (Clock)

 

[Arch]

isn't that strange.. Apple is one of the words Henry loves saying

Along with
Car
Bu..(Bus)
Taxi
Ar-chi (his friend at child minders)
Kya (Kiya the dog next door)
Pease (Please)
Ta
Shok (Sock)
Shoe
Tick Tock (Clock)

I suppose apple is a nice word, and a nice thing to eat (and a request that parents are likely to acceed to, more than 'cake' for example, so it's easily reinforced).

I forgot, if you give Max something, he says "ang goo". One day he said it randomly about 6 times. I reckon he was getting in credit, so he doesn't have to bother when he's a sulky teenager...

 

[Speicher]

Pease and ang goo are recogisable as polite words.

I may have mentionned meeting a very small boy who clearly responded to my question about whether it was lunchtime with "Not yet". The next question was "Are you at nursery?" to which the answer was "not yet".

It transpired that "not yet" was his favourite answer to any question. Turns out he was the youngest of three boys, so Mummy must be a very busy lady.

 

[Speicher]

When my sulky nephew was in his early twenties, he planned a trip to Europe visiting several countries. He reckoned he knew all the important words for such a trip. These words were "Beer" and "Stamp". He was very puzzled when I pointed out that "Please" and "Thank you" would prove to be more important, and perhaps he should learn those.

Just thought, perhaps he did not even use those words in England.

 

[Arch]

Oh, and from this morning.

Oli: I'm four
Me: So how old will you be on your next birthday?
Oli: Six.
Me: I don't think so. What comes after four?
Oli: Five!
Me: That's right! And on his next birthday Max will be two.
Mummy: (joking) and I'll be 21! How old will Auntie Sue be on her next birthday?
Oli: Six.
Mummy: Really?
Oli. No. Sixty eight!



He did spend a lot of the week saying "and Grandma - gran - Auntie Sue..." But then I probably called him Max once or twice.

 

[Night Train]

Sounds like you had a good time there, Arch. I thoroughly approve of a kid who has tractor in his vocabulary.

Today was a day of plastering. My neighbour came over to plaster my hallway/bike workshop for me. I helped a bit, cleaning and labouring a little.

This evening Granville got his sprocket changed and I found that there was a problem with the hub.

It was either brake loose and wobbly while freewheel too tight or brake and hub nice and free and freewheel wobbly.
Taking the hub drive end apart and checking the service instructions I found that there was a locking washer missing from the drive side cone lock nut. I made one and fitted it and it all seems ok now.

The chap I bought it from said something about having it apart and retightening the bearings so I might have it all apart to see what else might be wrong or missing.

Right, tea and then bed I think.

 

[TheDoctor]

So are you plastered now, NT???

We need a :wineglass: smiley.

 

[Night Train]

Not plastered any more, all my finger injuries are healed now.

I am looking forward to having a clean place to work on the bikes.

 

[TheDoctor]

I once shared a studio flat with four bikes.
I always had somewhere clean to work on the bikes, but sadly I sometimes had somewhere oily to sleep!!!

 

[Arch]

I am looking forward to having a clean place to work on the bikes.

Next you'll be wearing hairnets and paper slippers over your shoes to pump your tyres up!

Max is definitely following Oli's example with the train/tractor obsession - meanwhile, although Oli still likes trains, he's become a dinosaur expert. Like really expert. Don't refer casually to a tyrannosaurus, when looking at a picture of an allosaurus...

Of course, he's picking the names up aurally, from stuff on telly, so he can confidently and correctly say names that many of us would stumble over, because we'd be trying to read them.

The latest addition to the vocab, thanks to Planet Dinosaur this week, is carcharodontosaurus.

He's 4, for god's sake.