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The Green green leaves of home.

pete — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:26:03 +0000

leaves, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.

I took this picture yesterday and was happy with it.

�Today I heard that my elder son, Luke, was getting bullied in school. It seems the fact that he is food phobic is a cause for laughter amongst some of his class mates. He is 5 years old, and yes he is a bit different WRT his eating, but I didn’t think he’d get abuse at this age – it seems a tad young.

Lets hope that things improve. I’ve read the inspiring stories to him, “faster, faster little red train” and the associated series. Doesn’t seem to work, Luke is a deep thinker. I hope he talks to me before this gets to be a problem.

I live in hope.

Sports Day

pete — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:53:25 +0000

The first of two sports days turned out as I expected. Very, very wet. Judy and our neighbour Tracy braved the elements without brollies ‘in solidarity with the kids’. Sod that, I had my raincoat, my waterproof peaked cap and a brollie so I was fine. I did enough of all that guff when I was a kid, playing Gaelic football on a windswept field in the middle of winter in North Dublin. No thank you.

Phrase of the day..

pete — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:23:08 +0000

…comes from little Mark. Telling him that we’re on our way to Luke’s fifth birthday party, he asks:

“Will there be playing?”

Yes Mark, there’ll be playing.

“Will there be games?”

Yes Mark, there’ll be games.

“Will there be cake biting?”

Yes Mark, there’ll be cake biting.

(WTF?)

Update: This site is now result no. 2 on google for cake biting, just nudged out of top spot by cakebite.com (potentially NSFW galleries)