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.”
Today Ian passed his Warhammer 40K graduation battle and graduated.
He’s been reading the rules, codexes, painting marines and going to the weekly lessons since his birthday in August and finally he was ready for the battle.
He challenged Elvis (one of the Aberdeen Hobby Center staff) to the battle and we arranged to the battle for after school today.
Ian prepared his 1,000 point battleforce of Red Fist space marines (Chapter Master Omar, two 10 marine tactical squads, a Predator, assault squad, Dreadnaught and a squad of six Terminators), gave the rules one last read and we headed off to the shop.
Ian performed well, but some lucky dice on Elvis’ part led to all of Ian’s battleforce being wiped out, but since neither of them were able to take both objectives it was a draw.
What does graduated mean? Well, it means he gets a certificate and can now attend club nights at the shop to fight battles with other graduates.
Well done Ian!
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!
