I went round to Olivia's new place for lunch the other day. It was built in the 60's so has some wonderul classic 60's features, including 3 very distinct places in the kitchen specifically dedicated to hanging tea-towels - one of them is a special swing-out cupboard thingy wholy devoted to the tea-towel. Perhaps the lady of the house had a special collection of them? Or just required that one be at hand regardless of where it was in the kitchen she stood? Or perhaps this obvious devotion to the tea-towel was something that died out with women's lib, so we just don't quite get it.
While we marvelled at the tea-towel phenomenom, we also marvelled at the fact that boys don't need to be taught to love cars and trucks and diggers... that whole nature/nurture thing... boys and trucks is definitely nature. Case in point was when we took 4 year old Matty to the zoo last time Phil was here and he followed us round while we pointed out each new species with enthusiastic statements like "Look, a bear!", "Giraffes!", "Lions!" But nothing could compare to Matty's cry of passion when he saw the new elephant enclosure construction site... "DIGGERS!!!!!!". It eventually took three of us to ply his hands off the mesh fence in order to move on... Anyway, the pic above is Archie with his big fire truck that has a battery operated ladder that goes up and down and up and down and up... hours of fun! (For a few more pics see the Archie & Olivia album under 'My Pics')
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