Any time, Bath - was particularly thinking of you in the last week and a bit. Well, you're not going to forget to get into French mode as long as Niall knows what he wants!! How funny and cute! I caught up with my long-lost friend today and we got talking about our second languages, saying what a shame it is in the people we know who weren't taught their parents' languages - it's this great, invaluable resource that doesn't get shared. I can see how it would happen to people my age and their parents - assimilation pressue meant that a lot of migrants thought they'd disadvantage their children by 'hanging onto' the originating culture and language. Oh, how that's not so!!
Mel - your post reminded me of the new fairy shop up here, and I only had time to PM you quickly and without full sentences, sorry! I can just see Miss M getting away with murder for being cute when she's being treacherous!
Took Oscar to the city today by train to catch up with my great friend from the past (don't want to let go of her ever again!) and he wasn't 100%, so he fell asleep in the end and was asleep for about 2 and a half hours. On the way back he wanted to get off at every station, saying "Oscar's turn"!! As well as saying "Chao, hombre" when people got off the train. I can't believe how chatty he has become, it's such a burst of language expression that I'm thinking my reading him poetry as a newborn may be paying dividends!
Have to rush away again, going to visit a new baby Does anyone remember my experience over New Years' where DP left me in the lurch to pick up my own pieces after being told to leave by our friends' wife who became paranoid? Well, it's her and her baby. Here's me doing my usual thing of hoping the friendship is still salvagable...and hoping in our case babies really can be healing...I'm such a pathetic optimist sometimes...