Julie is stuck at home today having sprained her ankle yesterday. She’s started to watch the 1995 TV version of Pride and Prejudice.
Ian sat down with her for a few minutes and asked “where are the Zombies?”
I think he is confusing Pride and Prejudice with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
We were watching a TV news article about proposals for a minimum price for alcohol earlier.
Ian wants to know why the government is trying to put his Granddad out of business.
He also wants to know if the ban on advertising will mean Weavers will have to repaint the vans.
Because “it keeps my wrist warm.”
Ian was reading his Warhammer 40K Space Marine Codex today and was looking at a Venerable Dreadnought.
“What does venerable mean?” he asked.
According to the Snow Leopard dictionary, it is an adjective meaning “accorded a great deal of respect, esp. because of age, wisdom, or character.”
After I explained was it meant, he said “Just like Grandpa!”
Paul was kind enough to take Ian and myself to the RAF Leuchars air show in his Jaguar XKR Coupe which is optimistically described as a 2+2.
Ian got in the back and was prompty squashed when I put the passenger seat back so I could fit. He didn’t complain and sat there for the 2 hours into and out of the air show.
When we arrived back at Paul house he got out, stretched and said “I feel like living luggage.”
Despite Paul’s car being so nice, I think we’ll take a bigger vehicle next year.
Overheard today:
Georgie: Ian, which academy do you want to go to?
Ian: Not Gordons, I don’t want to work that hard.
Ian and I were watching a documentary about soldier ants today.
Ian: “Why are they called soldier ants, they don’t have guns?”
Me: “Not everyone who carries a gun is a soldier.”
”Can you think of someone who carries a gun and is not a soldier?”
Ian: ”Americans.”
Yesterday Ian came home from Cubs where they had been learning how to light candles with matches.
They also spoke about how all the world’s major religions use light.
“Which religion did you talk about?” I asked him.
“Christianity, Hinduism and, err, J, err, Johnlewisism” he replied.
We think he may have meant Judaism!
Woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise with a red glowing globe rising through the mist over the North Sea. I called Ian into the study to have a look.
“Have you ever seen a sun rise like that?”
“Yes, on Tatooine in Episode IV”
Think the lad is confusing fiction and reality?
Walking through Disney’s Magic Kingdom today, Ian announced “If this is the year of a million dreams, where is the execution chamber for Rachel?”
He’s not a very nice little boy!
