Lucinda has been dispatched southwards to get at least some decent photos in the bag before I turn up with all the boys and ruin everything.
That means that we have Granny to stay to hold the fort for a day or so. Cue earnest conversation….
Robin (aged 5, for it is he): Granny, would you have liked to come to the do the photos for Mummy’s book?
Granny (aged – ahem – ): That would be enormous fun, but do you think I really ought to be there?
Robin (considering this carefully): “Well. You do have a lot of wrinkles.”
PAUSE.
“…. and that might not help sell the book.”
Robin and Granny, Wrinkles and Tact
Lucinda has been dispatched southwards to get at least some decent photos in the bag before I turn up with all the boys and ruin everything.
That means that we have Granny to stay to hold the fort for a day or so. Cue earnest conversation….
Robin (aged 5, for it is he): Granny, would you have liked to come to the do the photos for Mummy’s book?
Granny (aged – ahem – ): That would be enormous fun, but do you think I really ought to be there?
Robin (considering this carefully): “Well. You do have a lot of wrinkles.”
PAUSE.
“…. and that might not help sell the book.”