A wet morning

[ailbhe]

Today, at least for Rob, the day started wetly. He first woke at about 5:30 to discover that I had been unable to brave the furnace that is our bedroom this weather, and came down to find me sleeping peacefully on the sofa in the dining room, where it was a mere 20C. So he woke me (hah. More on that later).

He next woke at about 8:30. The head of our bed is next to the windows, and Linnea often wakes before we do (see also: parenthood) and stands on our pillows to spy on the neighbours. This morning she performed one of her less endearing tricks, which is to sit heavily on our sleeping heads. She sat wetly on Rob's.

He woke with the speed one might assume, and found that there was also a puddle on his pillow. Leaky nappy. By the time I surfaced, dry-mouthed and croaking, he'd laundered his pillow and hung it on the line to dry. And recovered from the shock, more or less.

Ahahahahahahaha!

It's too hot to go out. We were going to go swimming but it's too hot to walk there. We were going to go to Mothercare but it's too hot to walk there. We are going to collect some Freecycle curtains but that's going to wait until later afternoon because it's too hot.

In cuteness news, Linnea plays a good game of hide and seek, and gives generous kisses. None of the three of us are eating very much, but we're sure she's not dehydrated. We have incontrovertible proof, in fact.

And she likes the little crunchy stick bits in Bombay Mix. The spicy ones. Who'da thunk it?

Also, someone has suggested that this could use some music, and I think she may be right. Any suggestions?

And if anyone ever wanted to draw me an illustration for any of the pomes, I'd be interested in that, too. Not sure how I'd show them but we'd think of something. I'm seriously considering making up little booklets and sending them to people as gifts.

Comments

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

'm seriously considering making up little booklets and sending them to people as gifts.


if you do that, i would like to urge you to send at least one to a publisher. i really think that these would bring a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. i know that i would love to give your poems as a gift to my friends who have children, or who are pregnant.

:)

n.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Illustrations or really good photographs, maybe. And I second the publisher idea.

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

I can't help but feel illustrations would work better than photographs, although I'm not sure why.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Depends on the market, I suppose. They could easily take Shirley Hughes-style illustrations; similarly Anne Geddes-type photographs. It's the difference between a book for children and a book for grown-ups who have children, really. And I think both would appreciate the pomes so it works either way.

[ailbhe]

That settles it, I hate Anne Geddes. She gives me the creeps. Illustrations it shall be.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Except I don't mean Anne Geddes at all, having thought about it. At least, not the flowerpot type pics. Proper action baby photography.

[ailbhe]

Ah - more like the "This little baby" and "Amazing Baby I Love You" books then?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

We have one, The Big Book of Beautiful Babies or some such name, which is the exact kind of thing I mean. Those books you mention are more like it, too. For some reason I can't pin down, I'm thinking AG has done some of those too, not just the twee flowery stuff.

[k425.livejournal.com]

And she likes the little crunchy stick bits in Bombay Mix. The spicy ones. Who'da thunk it?

Haven't tried YB on those because all Bombay mix has peanuts in and I'm still avoiding them (beginning to wonder if it's time to introduce back into my diet now). However, have you tried those chilli crackers - M&S does them but you can generally get them in the same kind of place you get Bombay mix. YoungBloke thinks they are fantastic.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes. smallclanger loves those. And Snack-a-jacks in Sweet Chilli flavour, and today he had McCoys Jalapeno Chilli crisps (they were giving away samples at Sainsbury's) and wolfed them down. :) Prawn crackers are very popular too.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Is it spicy? Is it salty? Is Mummy eating it? He wants some and likes it...

someone has suggested...

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

ok, done. it's not perfect, but it's hummable, and could be sung as a lullaby. do you have keyboard, descant recorder...? read music from the written stave? follow sol-fa (do-re-me) notation?
if you let me know your comfortable singing range, i can put it in that key. oh - and there's no accompaniment, just the melody line.

Re: someone has suggested...

[rrc.livejournal.com]

I can read music - if a little slowly, and pick it out on keyboard or guitar - But if you can supply a midi file as well that would be easiest for us to pick it up from I think.

re: someone has suggested...

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

i haven't the faintest idea how to write a midi file in protext or [super]ted, no idea of what free software might be available for dos (or possibly win98se) to produce 'em, and no money.

c-d-e + incidentals (sharps'n'flats), then, or written out on staves - ok?

if on staves, i'll need a postal address, to which to send it... [a]

[a] - by email?