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Date: 08 August 2005 16:10:15
Off work with a cold. Have spent most of the day watching vast quantities of rubbishy programmes I've recorded but The Spouse™ doesn't want to watch. Perhaps my body decided it needed a rest after the weekend with the Invasion of the Hordes (mum, brother, sister-in-law, and 20-month-old niece).
Still, we discovered the best way EVER to amuse an under-2. Cricket on the telly. She loved watching the men run up and down, trying to catch the balls off the screen, imitating the bowlers (and when we imitated them, she knew it was on again and rushed to watch it), clapping when the crowd clapped, and generally giving her unintelligible commentary on the whole thing. She is what my late lamented mentor would have called a "tune child" - lots of words that sound like they could be intelligible if only you could crack the code, and all the ups and downs a sentence ever needed - if only we could understand her. Still, she has a good line in animal noises, even if the elephant says "baa baa".