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That's it

That's the end of this now. We are old enough to rightly demand some privacy.

Fingernails

Since the fitting of braces, Holly has grown fingernails. On account of being unable to bite them....

Braces

We had braces fitted today. We are unimpressed but stoic.

Dad

Holly: "Right. I'm going to get a glass of water and when I get back Dad has to have grown up by at least ten years."

Open Mic Night

Rosie joined Dad and Clare at the Taunton Ukulele Strummers Club Open Mic Night to do a Keston Cobblers Club number. And she totally rocked it! Go Rosie!

Excited

Text messages to Dad on the morning of going skiing for the first time with school in France for a week...
Rosie: "About to go off in the car in 15 mins. Promise to get you a present (an ironic one if possible) and very excited. Painted my nails red trying to calm down... It didn't work. Excited, Excited, EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Holly: "Heyyyylooooooww  H here. Am trying to deal with boredom and excitement at the same time! Wasn't sure that was possible! Am also trying not to read the books on me kindle as will probably be doing that for the next 3 days!"

Insult

Dad just found a note in one of our books. Provenance unknown.

"You are a mean bogie-hearted troll of a sister."

National Trust Concert

Hi

It appears that Holly is still at an age at which she sweetly assumes that if she joins the Middle School Choir and commits to performing at the cathedral after school on Tuesday 10th, then her parents will not need to be told, benefiting from parental omniscience.

Of course she is deluded.

Consequently we have only just heard about this commitment and have not seen (or at least attended to, believing them to be irrelevant) any letters about it.

May we please ask for the timings and locations of dropping off and picking up, as well as the expected dress?

Thank you for your help, and our apologies for not being the all-seeing hyperbeings that our daughter expects.

Yours


 Jim and Tamsin Cromwell

Fuck

And so it begins. Our first definite expletive. From Holly. In the context of advent calendars that do not contain chocolate.

"You open the doors, and 'Oh Fuck, it's Jesus!'"

Mermaid

Rosie just swam 67 lengths in 45 minutes.....! Dad, literally, has not swum 67 lengths, cumulatively, in his entire life.

Religion

Holly: "I think religions are right about one thing - that all the other religions are wrong!"

On Bottoms

Rosie: "I think we should have more padding on our tail-bones and less on the tops of our legs where we don't need it."

Faith

Possibly unrelated events today:

1) The girls went to Junior Springboard Club (Christian Society).
2) They asked to listen to the God Delusion audiobook on the way home.