I get to pick and choose. I know I am lucky. I have five beautiful nieces, eighteen, sixteen, fourteen, eight and six. All surrogate daughters, on a part time rota basis.
Fabulous fun.
It’s Easter holiday time and I have the middle niece to visit for a sleep over, a couple of nights with her mad giddy aunt.
Car journeys are usually solitary times when my mind is free and I can relax, unwind and think. Not last night, when I collected her. Something surprising happened.
She talked non-stop! Not even to draw breath. I couldn’t get a word in edgeways. If I tried to respond and break into her conversation, she kept going. Talked louder, drowned me out.
At first I thought it was endearing, charming. After ten miles I was fit to scream…
Until she said, smiling: ‘dry rain would be better.’
Haha! Kids come out with some real crackers sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel. My stepdaughter is 15 and I get one extreme or the other. Sullen silence or talking 19 to the dozen so I can't get a word in.
My eye was caught by your Hove Library book up there, as I'm a Brightonian born and bred. Might have to check that out!
I get the biggest kick out of people responding to these daily posts so it’s lovely to meet you via this a to z challenge! Do you miss Brighton?
Delete'Ten Minute Tales' is due to be released after 17th April - I'm away until 21st but once the copies are available I will update the blog and promote one Twitter, unashamedly! Never done anything like this before so it’s all good practice for when I release that blockbuster that’s brewing...
We have six boys and one girl. So I feel your pain. The one girl is waaay harder than SIX boys. Ha! I love the dry rain comment. :-) Visiting from A to Z.
ReplyDeleteRobyn, Hi it's so nice to meet other bloggers doing the A to Z challenge, especially those who identify with what’s written. I will pop along & check yours out later ;-)
DeleteGreat post. My and my girlfriend regular look after her Niece. It's great to go on days out to the zoo or the cinema.
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Jack
http://jackedwardspoetry.blogspot.co.uk/
Thank you Jack it always nice to know that I struck a chord with other readers & writers...however I will be glad once they have all gone back to school, lol.
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