Fruit flies failing

[ailbhe]

I seem to have created a less convivial environment for them, or something, so they are choosing to leave of their own accord. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, etc.

I've done a fair bit of housework today but it's almost all the invisible sort, not massive obvious cleaning a whole room stuff. I've put laundry away, and washed laundry, and hung it out to dry; I've washed plastic dishes and lunchboxes and bottles; I've cleaned the draining board and covered it in stuff again; I've cleaned down the kitchen counters and covered those in stuff; I've been trying to get the dishwasher clean, too. I think we might need to have it serviced somehow because I think if it goes on as it has been it will become unreliable and unwell.

Linnea's Best Boy Friend is over again.

Oh - Linneaisms - she says, in tones so pathetic that my very heart is wrung (though not my wallet): "Alison's children have maspensive toys. I have no maspensive toys because I am only four. You have to be a least five to have maspensive toys."

I'm not sure what she thinks maspensive means but certainly she has been refused toys on the grounds that they are too expensive. I wonder do Alison's children have something specific she has been refused on those grounds? Or is she just cobbling logic together from available parts to try to make sense of the world?

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Beware: She knows she's four, and that five-year-olds get those maspensive toys. When five looms, you could be in big trouble.

(I wonder if it would be worth pointing out that maspensive toys are mostly made of plastic, and plastic breaks.)

[ailbhe]

The most recent version was because of a specific toy - we got her the smaller T-Rex Embedded In "Rock" to excavate, and she wanted the bigger one. It was definitely too expensive (basically the same toy, writ large, for over 30UKP - that's real grandparent territory, AFAIC).

[pauamma]

Or honorary uncle territory, maybe? :-)

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

That's too adorable.

[ailbhe]

There is a real shortage of uncles hereabouts. Rob has one sister and I have four!

[pauamma]

Can I apply for the position? :-)

[ailbhe]

You want to buy my kids expensive stuff I'm too mean to spring for? (Today's quote: "It's not FAIR, you never let us have toys!")

Be my, as they say, guest. They'll love you for it. If possible, sign it with a photo because I'm not sure they'll remember you otherwise :/

Of course, postcards are at least as good as expensive presents, and cards in envelopes which need to be actually OPENED are even better. Typical tourist photos such as features on kids' maps of the world extra good. Or animals. Or space.