Fox News Update

For those who are wondering how this disaster waiting to happen ended, well, yesterday was the day when Bundle finally met Crazy Uncle Fox.

You will be pleased to know that, with no prompting from me at all, Bundle decided that we had to take the customised All Pro Scoop with us and show it to his uncle so that he would remember.

And we did.

My brother was bemused, to say the least, but pleased to be famous for something.


The whole thing is getting out of hand, partly because my wife thinks it's funny to talk about Crazy Uncle Fox whenever she gets the chance, to the point where I had to explain to Bundle that that is not actually his uncle's real name.

The whole bat story has taken hold to the point that, when Bundle found out that Uncle Fox was coming around on Christmas Eve "to help Daddy and Santa"*, he suddenly looked worried and asked "He won't put a hole in the presents, will he?"

I considered feeling bad about this, but then my idiot brother spent Sunday afternoon telling my nieces what my nickname was when I was 5 years old,** so I decided to feel entirely fine instead.






* There is a springfree trampoline arriving soon. Ssssh, don't tell the boys, it's a surprise.



** There is not enough money in the world to persuade me to tell you what it was.

Is this line bugged?

Bundle really has been on fire this week. This morning, it was a conversation on his toy telephone that went a little something like this.

"Hello."

"Hello. who's this?"

"Bug? IS YOUR NAME 'BUG'?"

Puts telephone down, scowls furiously, and yells:

"THIS IS MAAAAAAAAD"


When the phone rang this evening, and I knew it would be one of Honey Bear's friends from the kinder committee, I cannot tell you just how hard it was not to answer the phone in exactly the same way as Bundle, just to see what would happen.

Try it, and let me know how it goes.

Getting to yes

Bundle: Daddy, do you have brown hair

INC: Yes. And yours is blonde, isn't it? And it's very lovely

Bundle: Is it lovelier than yours?

INC: Yes. I think it is.

Bundle: Hmmm. So, can we agree on that?

INC: [beat] Ye-e-s. Yes, we can.

Bundle: Oh thank you.

[Gives INC a big cuddle to express his gratitude]