Alright Monty
What is your ex doing if you've got to wait around at hers? would it not be easier for you to have your kid at your gaff?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:59, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

She's going out for the night. I'm staying over.
Her gaff's only just down the road from mine, and my kid's toys, clothes and bed are obviously all at hers. I don't mind too much, I shall just eat all her food and go through her stuff.

There's my vinyl copy of 'Cat Scratch Fever' by Ted Nugent that she denies still having - I WILL find it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Good luck
Thieving back your own stuff. I hope you get to use all of your cunning and stealth.

Have a nice time with your little 'un too!

Have you got a favourite toy you insist she plays with, just so you can join in?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:04, Reply)

She has a massive bag of Mega Bloks (sic)
that I inevitably commandeer and make castles out of.

Similarly when we went to Cyprus we got her a bucket and spade and I got so engrossed in recreating the Tower of London I didn't notice that she'd wandered off. Oops.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:15, Reply)

Good job you did holiday in Portugal
If she'd have wandered off there you'd have never found her again.

You have fun building castles this evening!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:19, Reply)

I surely will.
I shall read her Meg and Mog stories as well. Or Beatrix Potter. I approve of these, as opposed to the Disney shit the girl upstairs has. I like the old Disney films and have no problem with Toy Story etc but the whole cheesy 'princess' shit makes me sick. I will not encourage that gender stereotype stuff.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:23, Reply)

The Jungle Book
Is a fantastic film.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:25, Reply)

As is Robin Hood, Dumbo etc.
Pinnochio I think is fucking scary, so I'm not sure about getting her that one.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:26, Reply)

meg and mog are great
also stuff like "i don't like gloria", i cried with laughter when i read that book to my nephew.

but gender stereotyping... depends on the child as well, i think. my niece was simply born with an obsession with shoes, pink and purple stuff, and shopping. from being about 2 years old she would drag you into shoe shops, not toy shops. some things are nature as well as nurture!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:27, Reply)

ooo!
when I worked in the bookshop I found "Tadpole's Promise" the most traumatic and sad story I have ever read, especially in big picture book form. People who laugh at it are heartless bastards, it's so very moving

www.amazon.co.uk/Tadpoles-Promise-Jeanne-Willis/dp/1842704265
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:29, Reply)

I consider it my bounden duty
to point out and disparage vulgarity to her. If she loves it all anyway then so be it, but my finely-tuned detection of crassness and general commonness I owe to my parents' pointing and laughing as I grew up.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:32, Reply)

well, she's a little girl
there's even chances she will love pink glittery tacky shit even if she is also a tomboy. but then she will grow out of it and you'll probably miss it when she is swishing around all tasteful and mocking and sarcastic like her daddy!!!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:41, Reply)

Don't read kids 'Goodbye Mog'
Mog dies.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:33, Reply)

you bastard, you've ruined the ending now
I've been reading that for 2 months now and I was nearly half way through
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:34, Reply)

Sorry Crunchy
I was just about to remove the spoiler. But too late.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/mogs-creator-kills-off-the-forgetful-cat-to-help-children-understand-death-641485.html
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Fuck I thought you were joking.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:36, Reply)

No.
Get someone else to explain death to your daughter.

*Gets all JTDG Medical Man*

Monty, I NEVER joke about death.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:38, Reply)

Isn't Ted's a bit too much of a wet liberal softie for you?
Bedtime for your kids is great at your daughter's age.
Reading and/or singing to them, and occasionally they come out with the most charmingly odd things when they're on the cusp of sleep.
Plus they look completely lovely when sleeping.
(Cave Duck, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:07, Reply)

I overlook Ted's weedy politics
as i do love his guitar playing. I prefer the Amboy Dukes stuff but his first two LPs - and especially 'Double Live Gonzo' are fucking great.

Totally agree with bedtime stuff, it's so, so endearing.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:17, Reply)