tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post1645487654191362019..comments2023-11-05T08:01:10.010+00:00Comments on Think of England: ProgenyBrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-90337384884722286812009-11-17T06:33:13.663+00:002009-11-17T06:33:13.663+00:00Excellent (and. in places, unsettling) stuff, peep...Excellent (and. in places, unsettling) stuff, peeps.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-39590351101450039372009-11-17T05:15:47.290+00:002009-11-17T05:15:47.290+00:00Wow, so much wisdom packed onto one blog post; unf...Wow, so much wisdom packed onto one blog post; unfortunately I don't have kids myself but I was with you all the way on this one. Re burping: anything event that discharges something from the body is a satisfying experience and to be applauded.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-13223016243362443582009-11-16T23:57:47.147+00:002009-11-16T23:57:47.147+00:00Point, point, I know I had a point around here som...Point, point, I know I had a point around here somewhere.<br /><br />Ah, yes. Actually, two points about parenting that I don't see emphasized much.<br /><br />First, the potential for, literally, making a friend. Not forcing your child to be exactly like you, or to like only what you like, but to make a true friend.<br /><br />Second, the exhilarating, sad and scary fact that we'll Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902329503560660425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-55830012567885039622009-11-16T23:26:26.055+00:002009-11-16T23:26:26.055+00:00Ben and I had a watershed moment Saturday morning....Ben and I had a watershed moment Saturday morning. He came down stairs at 5:00 am to find me where he had left me at 11:00 pm Friday night: on the couch playing Modern Warfare 2.<br /><br />He promptly chastised me and sent me off to bed.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902329503560660425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1257493460304597512009-11-16T23:19:39.008+00:002009-11-16T23:19:39.008+00:00This all reminds me of something that happened jus...This all reminds me of something that happened just over a year ago.<br /><br />I had taken my daughter to her flute lesson in Anchorage. It had started to snow in earnest earlier that day, and ditch divers were already assuming all sorts of ingenious positions by the time we drove into town.<br /><br />An hour later that same highway, the only one out of Anchorage to the rest of the world, was Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-19338711802038409272009-11-16T21:28:11.744+00:002009-11-16T21:28:11.744+00:00So you think it does spread, rather than merely ra...<i>So you think it does spread, rather than merely ratchet, Gaw?</i><br /><br />Thankfully, in this regard, anyway, our brains can only do one thing at a time.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-5641544609051929772009-11-16T17:15:39.009+00:002009-11-16T17:15:39.009+00:00Thanks for the title suggestion Brit, hope you'...Thanks for the title suggestion Brit, hope you'll be the first to buy a copy - all proceeds to my 5 star nursing home fund.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179895758709928467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-9489387837225322002009-11-16T17:06:21.423+00:002009-11-16T17:06:21.423+00:00True, worm. Tomorrow buy shares in the Acme Worry ...True, worm. Tomorrow buy shares in the Acme Worry Bead Co, at least you can profit from the looming angst.<br /><br />Angst is here.<br />Angst is good.<br />Angsters unite, your time has come.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-56441008983338563982009-11-16T16:41:12.378+00:002009-11-16T16:41:12.378+00:00Blimey, reading blog posts like this is giving me ...Blimey, reading blog posts like this is giving me "a hint of a glimpse of a foreshadowing of a whole new world of excruciating worry"wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-29426452011813901092009-11-16T16:41:04.189+00:002009-11-16T16:41:04.189+00:00Because experience is a bit overrated as a key to ...Because experience is a bit overrated as a key to insight. Empathy and being tuned in to the Fundamental Way of Things is much more important. Lots of people with kids couldn't write that, yet Lawrence could.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-54420455062748002742009-11-16T16:34:35.623+00:002009-11-16T16:34:35.623+00:00As someone once said, to procreate is to ensure th...As someone once said, to procreate is to ensure that you spend the rest of your life with your heart beating outside your body. For maybe two years after my eldest daughter was born I could hardly bear to read a paper or watch the TV news -- any report of the bad stuff happening to kids felt like a blow in the stomach. Somehow you <i>do</i> get over it a little, with time and subsequent arrivals,jonathan lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986943428040953041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-22396052216638712012009-11-16T14:14:50.644+00:002009-11-16T14:14:50.644+00:00Heh heh, yes that was wot swung it, Malty, as I sa...Heh heh, yes that was wot swung it, Malty, <a href="http://ruminantics.blogspot.com/2009/09/holiday.html?showComment=1252065681286#c571612162433906094" rel="nofollow">as I said to Worm.</a>Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-83366269104619939562009-11-16T14:11:02.723+00:002009-11-16T14:11:02.723+00:00Susan raises the $64,000 answer to your enquiry Br...Susan raises the $64,000 answer to your enquiry Brit, the Raison d'être, the very essence, the prime motivator since time immemorial or at least since the bastards stopped giving all of the last 2 years tax back when you were made redundant, the main purpose....the little twerps can look after you when you start to dribble, forget to turn the lights off, can't find the bus stop etc.<br />maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-18804847147998782632009-11-16T13:16:58.510+00:002009-11-16T13:16:58.510+00:00'Burps of my Parents' - good name for your...'Burps of my Parents' - good name for your collected memoirs, Susan.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-22648269322678770762009-11-16T13:07:31.822+00:002009-11-16T13:07:31.822+00:00OK, the answer is no. As Gaw suggests, the excruci...OK, the answer is no. As Gaw suggests, the excruciation does not double or treble. That's because the exhaustion and financial stress, which does grow exponentially, neutralizes it, so it all works just fine in the end.<br /><br />Besides, many more videos like Charlotte's "Decisions, Decisions" and you will have six. You're playing with fire there, mate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-15127482560328021472009-11-16T12:56:17.962+00:002009-11-16T12:56:17.962+00:00As an only child, with no offspring of my own, I&#...As an only child, with no offspring of my own, I'm not quite sure how to answer this question. Do the resounding <a href="http://shopcurious.blogspot.com/2009/11/rainy-daysand-mondays.html" rel="nofollow">burps of my parents</a> after I've fed them Christmas lunch count?Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179895758709928467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-20334435514272053452009-11-16T12:48:34.282+00:002009-11-16T12:48:34.282+00:00In my case it has spread. The feelings couldn'...In my case it has spread. The feelings couldn't get much more intense so there's no question of them doubling.<br /><br />That being the case, emotional physics would dictate that what's already there for one, gets spread about when there's more than one. And as I say I would have thought this is beneficial for the one, but ultimately probably not a big deal.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-26997675895417562262009-11-16T12:47:14.770+00:002009-11-16T12:47:14.770+00:00Thus it was a question, Peter.Thus it was a question, Peter.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-66739849979975946922009-11-16T12:37:01.563+00:002009-11-16T12:37:01.563+00:00"War is Hell", said the conscript on hi..."War is Hell", said the conscript on his first day of boot camp. My good man, when your youngest approaches eighteen, we may be interested in your reflective insights, but for now there is laundry that needs attending to. <br /><br />As to siblings, I'm sure Mrs. Brit will work it all out for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-28074213321046679222009-11-16T12:09:41.877+00:002009-11-16T12:09:41.877+00:00I should think I have, at £300 an hour.I should think I have, at £300 an hour.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-55663769947934840242009-11-16T12:06:53.496+00:002009-11-16T12:06:53.496+00:00I don't know where else to post this but I jus...I don't know where else to post this but I just wanted to say that I always suspected that you were Belle de Jour, Brit. It was the Bristol connection and love of science that gave the game away. I think it was brave of you to come out in the papers yesterday. You have very attractive eyes.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-57726849858524988932009-11-16T11:58:07.490+00:002009-11-16T11:58:07.490+00:00So you think it does spread, rather than merely ra...So you think it does spread, rather than merely ratchet, Gaw?<br /><br />Malty - wise words indeed.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-13273730537338407822009-11-16T10:56:00.948+00:002009-11-16T10:56:00.948+00:00Thanks Malty. Very good advice, I think.
We'v...Thanks Malty. Very good advice, I think.<br /><br />We've got two and I was concerned about having just the one. I felt it was almost unfair for one little chap to have such overwhelming degrees of feeling, concern and expectation directed just at him.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-9055093835855974372009-11-16T10:20:44.648+00:002009-11-16T10:20:44.648+00:00To give this subject some context, it all depends....To give this subject some context, it all depends. Expectancy of life is now so high, unreasonably so when we look back over our shoulders such a short distance, the more we think is achievable, the more we assume that to be the reality.<br />My granddaughter spent the first month of her life in an intensive care unit in the Horst Schmidt clinic in Wiesbaden, four weeks in the life of a family maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.com