Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Burning down trees

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.

19 February 2011

Burning down trees

Mum, I'm trying to burn that magpie tree down with my x-ray vision. I know I have x-ray vision because when I stare really hard, I see arrows in the sides of my eyes.

Good, son. Don't set fire to the blinds or the window or the house while you're doing it.

8 comments:

Andi said...: Thank you for not discouraging your child's imagination!! That is great!; 20 February, 2011 01:01
Joy said...: Hope this find you well and nothing smoldering around you.
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Joy; 20 February, 2011 07:20
Tracy P. said...: Awesome shot. He is looking so grown up--nice to hear he still has a youthful imagination! :-); 20 February, 2011 07:58
flask said...: your kid is AWESOME.; 20 February, 2011 08:16
MUM said...: I didn't know you could get rid of a pesky magpie AND the tree it lives in with x-ray vision. Good luck to the dear little Superhero.; 20 February, 2011 16:19
Emily Sue said...: That picture could so easily be the poster for a very scary movie about a child with tree-burning powers.; 20 February, 2011 19:20
Allegro ma non troppo said...: I'm not sure the tree deserves to die as well! Tell him a real superhero would only zap the magpie.; 21 February, 2011 21:26
John Ross Barnes said...: Sorry to have been out of sight as I've been. Medical stuff, life stuff. stuff-stuff.

Really enjoying catching up on your particular, or is it peculiar, way of seeing your life & the world around you. It's like an example of how to be humorous in Way fewer words than I seem able to use.

Thanks Much for this. ;-); 22 February, 2011 16:44

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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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19 February 2011

Burning down trees

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