The Skype calls and I race to turn off
radio 4 and click on the green icon to accept the call. Then there in the centre of the screen
appears your face looking perplexed. You
stare with that piercing intensity only the under twos can muster. Not old enough to pretend sociability or even
feign interest. I am pulling out all the
stops on my end. Beaming, smiles, hands
clapping, launching into nursery rhythm’s we’ve shared on visits months
ago. You inspect me coldly, gosh it’s a
tough audience tonight! Then, something
in my repertoire clicks and a huge smile emerges. He has recognized his granny. She of the crazy attention seeking over
performance is familiar once more. He
babbles, at times he leans in as if to kiss the screen, he waves and
claps. It as if the entire audience of a
packed Albert Hall is in rapturous applause and I feel a deep sense of
satisfaction. It was a tough show but
the seasoned performer knows how to pull off magic. The Skype call finishes and I feel the
remains of the adrenaline surge through my body as the screen darkens. I am left, the connection broken, but
triumphant. Another spider link
established between that precious soul and mine. For Charlie, I’d even master headstands if it
brought forth those life giving smiles.
What is this granny hood madness?
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Thursday, 5 March 2015
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Sorry lads, could not resist!
You hear the warnings about things that appear in Facebook,
Myspace etc, unexpected photographs, videos taken by others while you all
unaware show aspects of yourself that you would not dream of exposing. Horrid people are out there willing to do the
dirty. Having begun to back up all the
laptops and computers as part of the house move I have been stumbling upon
photographs of my kids at young ages and have been putting them up willynilly
on my facebook. Apologies for those
subjected to these. But coming across
videos taken by my sons that are still on hard drives that I have never seen
has proved extremely entertaining. It
worries me greatly that this is how they behave when driving a car, but it made
me chuckle and will no doubt make them cringe so here goes. Let it be a warning to this generation of
mobile phone recorders. No one is safe!
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