This is my Facebook diary entry for 2nd May 2012:
I have to say I am very encouraged by and grateful for the responses I have had to these posts. Keep them coming and I’ll do likewise.
Did a telephone supervision session this morning.
An hour’s walk took me to Sainsbury’s in North Cheam for a shop. Had acceptable fish and chips in the Blue Chip chippie in Sutton Common Road and came home by bus.
This time the boredom of Hillcross Avenue was relieved by a little boy aged 3/4. On the other side of the road he raced ahead of his father, pressed the button to operate the pedestrian traffic lights, and tore across the road ahead of his Dad who was pushing the pushchair. On my side of the road he turned to enter a footpath and came a real head-first cropper. He got up, no whinging or crying, rolled up his jeans leg to reveal a graze, said, quite cheerfully, ‘I’ve hurt myself’, then jabbered away excitedly. His Dad said ‘ If you can understand a word of that you are doing better than me’. I couldn’t. He said he’d get back to me.
After that ‘raindrops [kept] falling on my head…..’
This afternoon I reached page 250 of Flaubert’s ‘L’education sentimentale’.
Then cooked my version of Delia’s sausage casserole which we have just finished eating.
I wonder what that little is up to these days, at 10 years old.
Good thinking, Ivor. Tearing around somewhere, I’m sure. Many thanks
Fish and chips…yum!!!!
🙂 Even when just OK
Such a vivid encounter. I’m sure the young boy doesn’t remember it at all.
I’m sure you are right, Merril. Thanks very much
Fun story! A plucky little boy. And how I love the header picture of that little foal. Oh, my!
Yes, Laurie – if the foal happened to be a boy he was probably brave, too, standing in the road. 🙂 Thanks very much
North Cheam – I’m sure I went there once…
…. only once, I’m sure 🙂 Thanks a lot, Mike
I hope the little boy has managed to make himself understood by now or he must be very frustrated.
🙂 Very funny, Luanne. Many thanks
He *was* a brave little boy! We had fish and chips this evening – yum!
Many thanks, Clare. I hope they were good
Very good. Thank you, Derrick.
They do tend to bounce, don’t they? 🙂 … we’ve watched the little lad across the way grow from a toddler to an articulate string-bean of a boy and have lost count of the number of times he’s ‘bounced’ while learning to navigate the various wheeled toys that have come his way. 🙂
I remember scuffed knees so well, Widders. Many thanks
Have you any other glimpses of that little boy’s experiences? I find the stories of youngsters from an adult point of view to be quite interesting.
Only my own years of scuffed knees, Ronnie. I never saw him again 🙂 Thanks a lot
Enjoying your earlier entries Derrick, great comparison to your entries today’s, menus are more descriptive today.
They are, indeed, Ian. I can be more eloquent now I don’t do the cooking 🙂 Cheers