Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Awesome Giveaway in our Sandpit

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

04 July 2008

Awesome Giveaway in our Sandpit

Sonny Ma-Jiminy's old sandpit was retired because the lid was left off. Often. And the sandpit was under a tree. Yurk.

SMJ: We should get a new sandpit.

Me: Yes, we should. But we would need to have a new rule: The Sandpit Lid Must Always Be Left On When You're Not Playing In It.

SMJ: Yeah. Cos otherwise, iPods would drop into it. Off the tree.

Me: iPods? Oh, seed pods?

SMJ: Yeah. Seed pods.

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Aunt Debbi/kurts mom said...: With my luck it would be an actual ipod. BTW I have something for you over at my blog.; 04 July, 2008 09:22
Nauntie Lush said...: It would be better if there were iPods dropping in it. Because chances are around here it would be something like 'kitty roca' and someone would eat it on accident and then get worms.

Excuse me while I go throw up, again, for typing something disgusting in comments!; 04 July, 2008 10:59
Givinya De Elba said...: Yuck - I always appreciate a good disgusting comment (you know me!)

Cats, hey? Hmph. Another reason to keep the lid on!; 04 July, 2008 13:43

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They called me Katherine.

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I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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04 July 2008

Awesome Giveaway in our Sandpit

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