Favourite playthings.I have to admit to having a brilliant father..although now I am one, I realise that 'age appropiate' for playthings just doesn't register on his horizons. This was hammered home when last Sunday I left my precious only child in his care whilst I enjoyed a peaceful bowl of cereal and a look at B3ta newsletter.
After viewing the links and still enjoying the remnants of 'Shreddies' stuck in my teeth I ventured forth to 'the garage' where my little darling and Grandad had been playing...I saw strange black marks on the pathway!
On Closer inspection I saw these marks spelt out her name..in her handwriting..sort of...
I stepped into said structure to be greeted by a smoke filled room and my precious girl waving a flaming lump of wood around like Doug McClure beating off rubber dinosaurs. The black marks being her discovery that burnt wood equals charcoal which then writes on paving slabs. I should point out that she's 4 and has yet to really learn the valuable life skill that is 'Risk Asessment'.
Mind you I should've expected this seeing as my fave toys when i was young were pre prepared sodium chloride (minus fire retardent type) weedkiller and sugar fireworks (now referred to as B*mb5), A BSA airsport .22 calibre airifle..with x12 telescopic sight, and various unlicenced motorbikes both 2 and 4 stroke with free petrol. Of course all these happily supplied by my Father.
In his defence,he did grow up in the war where bombsites and unexploded ordnance were the order of the day.
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After viewing the links and still enjoying the remnants of 'Shreddies' stuck in my teeth I ventured forth to 'the garage' where my little darling and Grandad had been playing...I saw strange black marks on the pathway!
On Closer inspection I saw these marks spelt out her name..in her handwriting..sort of...
I stepped into said structure to be greeted by a smoke filled room and my precious girl waving a flaming lump of wood around like Doug McClure beating off rubber dinosaurs. The black marks being her discovery that burnt wood equals charcoal which then writes on paving slabs. I should point out that she's 4 and has yet to really learn the valuable life skill that is 'Risk Asessment'.
Mind you I should've expected this seeing as my fave toys when i was young were pre prepared sodium chloride (minus fire retardent type) weedkiller and sugar fireworks (now referred to as B*mb5), A BSA airsport .22 calibre airifle..with x12 telescopic sight, and various unlicenced motorbikes both 2 and 4 stroke with free petrol. Of course all these happily supplied by my Father.
In his defence,he did grow up in the war where bombsites and unexploded ordnance were the order of the day.