We Still Have One Fish! · Monday May 21, 2007 by Abbie
We saw a fish today! From the bathroom window we got a glimpse of Carrot, the largest gold one. So at least one fish is still there, but we still don’t know if the other two are there, or where the tadpoles went.
We were reading the last Discworld novel we have at the moment this morning, but I also told Ram that I had ordered the DVD of the two animated Discworld films. We have part of one, and have rented the other one, but as he is so interested in Discworld at the moment and they are not too expensive I thought he deserved to have them. As a special treat I also ordered Hogfather, as we don’t have Sky TV and couldn’t see it when it was on TV over Christmas.
Ram was so eager to get the DVD that he decided that he wanted me to read to him on the drive so that he could wait for the post man to come. When he did finally arrive at 11.30 (that is early for us, often we don’t get our post until 12.30) Ram excitedly tore open the package, only to be disappointed. It only contained Hogfather, as they are sending the rest of the order tomorrow!
He refused to watch the DVD at first. He often gets like this. If there is a change to what he thinks is going to happen he just can’t accept it.
Luckily after lunch he decided to start to watch it during my nap. When I got up I had problems following it, as I hadn’t been watching from the beginning. It probably didn’t help that I was still so tired that I kept falling asleep. It is a good think we have a lovely new comfortable sofa. Or maybe that is a bad thing!
We took a break a couple of times in the afternoon to bounce on the trampoline. I took this opportunity to explain to Ram that a journalist from our local paper was going to come to do a follow up interview to an article they did on us four years ago. I did some practice questions with him just to help him think about what he might want to say to the lady.
He had some interesting and in some cases very philosophical questions. I asked him if he would like to go to university one day and he said yes. So I asked him what he might like to study. He thought about it for a while, and then said, “Wizardry.” I think I had better warn her that any questions he can’t answer will be answered with nonsense ones!
We watched Fifth Gear this evening as usual. What is it about boys and their toys! But the programme afterwards was far more educational. Paul Merton’s China was very interesting. We both like Merton’s educational programmes, such as the series he did on silent comedy. I think Ram likes his comedy style.
By watching this programme live rather than recording it and watching the next day, it means that we can go to bed when it is dark out. But it also means that as the dog gets me up at the same time every day I will be getting tired! At least it saves some spare on the hard disk recorder too!
