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It is Ay-vi I think.

However it is said you are very much better than me at scrabble. And seeing as we have three games on the go mainly due to my inability to click only once, I keep noticing it.

PSW I probably haven't played my move in our game. I will investigate.

I don't feel strongly about it, and I'm interested in what you're saying Possum and Avi.

I think I understand your position intellectually, but not imaginatively. It all seems very literal and concrete and shining bright lights and knowing The Truth, and sometimes I think it's okay for things in childhood to be murky and a bit unknown and fantastic and ambiguous. FC sort of is here, because he's a good story, and possibly true and possibly not.

We go about with all the lights turned down dim here, bumping in the furniture and jumping at shadows.

Phew, I didn't wink.

I like playing scrabble .

It is fascinating seeing the words other peopl ecome up with (and occasionally coming up with something myself).

Am glad your DH got his flight (although of course I haven't met him).

I wonder what DS thinks about Father Christmas. I am not convinced I won't accidentally reveal all, although that isn't my intention.

I was pleased with stramp

Franny, I saw your thread in your other name (and immediately knew it was you ).

I wish I could do puns. Maybe I need to have more vegetables and then I could.

oh of course it was me

I just don't want linkage

Did we find out what Mr Avvy bought?

I had a very embarassing moment with DS this afternoon in our local post office / shop where they happen to sell trashy pocket money toys.

I was in teh post office queue and DS was holding forth loudly about the fact that if DH were there he would buy DS x toy because DH has lots of money and he always says

"Errrrr....ummmmmm...ok then"

Now this was a bit of an exaggeration but nevertheless I am having words with DH about it now

Idris I've just played my turn, I've been off all week. Avvi, I've started a new game with you (and I've got the worst selection of tiles ever!) Franny, gigue?!

gigue is lovely

god you lot are so PICKY

100x, I'm not aiming for literal and concrete, explaining the story of S Nicholas has many powerful mytho-poeic elements which are essential in childhood before the brain has matured to think ethically and in the abstract. I simply object to the 20th century hijacking of that myth and its debasement from something that was previously much more magical.
I am certainly pro rustley bustley stockings, they cansurely be thrilling and tingly with anticipation without all the clap trap of a mad fat Finn with reindeer on LSD who fly above the chimney pots.

I don't think I understand what you're saying really Avi.

Am I right in thinking that you are going to tell ds that it is a story? And then there will be a stocking. So won't he say 'so is the story real then?' and that you will say 'no the story isn't real, we put the presents there, it's not real, it's a story.' ??

I think children are like this. If you don't explain it is a story, but just act out the story, doesn't that work? I've never said Father Christmas is a real person, but then again nobody has asked me to (except for ds1 the other day).

Oh I'm in a muddle now.

I must go and talk to dh and keep him company for a bit. Night all.

Gigue is a word I would love to use. I even know what it means (is it just me or does anyone else find that they create words they have never seen before and have no idea what they mean?)

Are we going to fall off the world again? Maybe I should stop talking and then the chance would be lessened.

I suggested a new title and everyone is studiously ignoring it

Possum, I want to ask you nosy questions about languages and cultures.

Avi, you actually flummoxed me by saying Avvi when we first spoke. Did I look flummoxed? Well that was why, Aivi.

Dd2 and I had a bad night last night. She missed her nap and was too tired to eat much dinner and so was enormously hungry later. After what felt like hours of slurping, I denied her bf. I felt mean but desperate, in a just-can't-stand-it-any-more kind of way. She cried quite a lot but I hugged her and gave her drinks of water (she does get v. thirsty in the night). I was wondering if it was a one-off or whether I was reaching That Stage but I have bf her today and it has been fine. And she doesn't seem at all traumatised. I didn't get to sleep until gone 2 though. Still not sure if I was a very bad and mean mummy.

Maybe I need to use the analytical part of my brain more and treat it as a problem solving exercise, rather than trying to find words.

DH says I have to go to bed very soon. He is right.