The last two days

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So over the last two days Ghin and i have been under house arrest, mostly due to hi awful cough. I admit i have not made the best use of it. Wednesday i ended up watching lots of Friends and in the end we watched films... i think the Seven Voyages of Sinbad was on. I love the OTTness of it all. And how gay it all is really. As in i think yep he's gay, and yep he's gay and oh yes, Sinbad appears to be gay as well. I used to have quite a good gaydar so, well...

Anyway we also ended up in W5. W5 i do not like. Most of the stuff in there is not real. They seem to be - no, they are, simulations of things. And they explain things to children as if children are adults. If i have learnt anything from the last two months, it is children are NOT adults and do not need things explained to them. I have to heartily agree with Steiner saying to give a child an explaination (an intelleuctual concept) is like giving a child a pair of shoes at the age of four and expecting them to wear it all their lives. If we give an explaination which is 'FACT' then it will always be FACT - and the the child will never be able to think differently about what used to be FACT.

Anyway, Ghin foudn W5 quite tedious in the end as well. I dunno if it is because of the predominance of boring text or because 50% of the computer simulations did not work. Don't get be wrong, i LOVE the bug display, the mineral display, the things which children can just play on, but the computers, enough already. Also the acoustics are atrocious.

So, by way of therapy we came home and baked. Our own pizzas, which is riduculously easy, and then we watched the Seven Voyages of Sinbad. Oisin was fascinated with the stop-motion photography.

Here are the photies of the baking...

Ah yes, pizza, after coming back from Italy...why not eh?


Andiamo

Cath Kidston, wine and olive oil... are there anymore essential required in this life?

Ghin is obsessed with dominos

This is his entry for the biennelle architectura in 2025
Solution to flooding in Venice - another Ponte Diablo


I said to him, just look cute Ghin...
Today the boys had prata for breakfast, with my curry. Oisin was saying you make the best curry mom. I said, the next time i make curry you will be learning how to make it. It is ridiculously easy and you'll be popular with the girls. Girls like people who can make curry. No girls like boys who can cook - and you will know how to make your own curry - how cool is that?? He didn't seem convinced. Perhaps he's not into the girls. :-)

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