Online friendship

The Langdon Linigens came down from the mountains today for lunch. Callum and Declan have been rediscovering their Lego and toy soldiers, and were very keen to show off their military bases to Tom.

Once the soldiers had been played with and the various Lego characters had been fully explored, they discovered that all three of them were moshi monster fans. Unfortunately Tom couldn't remember his userid, but Declan bravely called him after dinner and they are now friend online.

Celebrations

Declan's speech topic this term was celebrations. For the first time ever, he decided to be keen about it. He explained that he does always love giving the speech itself, but hates the writing and practice.

But this time, he had his own idea for how the speech should go (his whole speech was him trying to decide which celebration the speech should be about) and he basically wrote (or dictated to me) the whole thing himself (with stage directions).

He was so keen that he asked the teacher if he could do it a week early, and according to both her and his report, it went very well today.

Those traditionalists among our readers will be disappointed to hear that Declan decided his favourite celebration is Halloween.

Goons

The boys still have their computers upstairs in the playroom, where we put them while the house was being sold. That sometimes causes us some angst as we hear the sounds of a random YouTube clip drifting down the stairs.

But today, we were very pleased when both boys came downstairs to show us something hysterically funny they had found on YouTube. It was a clip of the goons - What's the time Eccles? A little skit that had me laughing out loud despite having heard that clip at least 100 times during my formative years.

I confidently expect their maternal relatives to be bursting with pride at their good taste.