August 20th
Danny calls shortly after the repeat broadcast of last nights Match Of The Day to commiserate at Watford’s terrible luck at being awarded a penalty against them when no such offence had even occurred. Django wants to chat with Danny about the forthcoming holiday. In the course of the conversation Danny asks Django if he is bringing his water wings, to which Django says’ Are you being ironic?’
He only turned 4 two and a half months ago.
Thing is, at this age he ask’s questions with a relentless tenacity. Cute though it seems at first, this soon dissolves into just one question ‘Why?’
It doesn’t seem cute for long, trust me. After a while, when you have used up all the simple responses and tried the ‘because I say so’ route, you find yourself giving him complicated answers using words and concepts he couldn’t possibly understand. This leaves him confused. Amazingly, sometimes weeks later, he’ll bring one of these moments up. Seemingly out of no where. Hence his current obsession with irony.
In the evening Amanda is very stressed with the final, and late, proof reading of her latest magazine. There is one piece about various religious festivals coming up in the autumn. In order to check spelling and meanings we call Danny. Danny converted to Islam about 20 years ago. I ask about Ramadan and the festival of Id. Danny responds accordingly and then says, in his cockney twang.
‘Oi, you thinking of converting?’
‘Yeah’ I said ‘Get me one of those funny hats and a prayer mat, and I’ll be away’
To which Dan says ‘Tell ya what, I’ll slaughter a lamb in the back garden and we’ll be right over!’
Danny calls shortly after the repeat broadcast of last nights Match Of The Day to commiserate at Watford’s terrible luck at being awarded a penalty against them when no such offence had even occurred. Django wants to chat with Danny about the forthcoming holiday. In the course of the conversation Danny asks Django if he is bringing his water wings, to which Django says’ Are you being ironic?’
He only turned 4 two and a half months ago.
Thing is, at this age he ask’s questions with a relentless tenacity. Cute though it seems at first, this soon dissolves into just one question ‘Why?’
It doesn’t seem cute for long, trust me. After a while, when you have used up all the simple responses and tried the ‘because I say so’ route, you find yourself giving him complicated answers using words and concepts he couldn’t possibly understand. This leaves him confused. Amazingly, sometimes weeks later, he’ll bring one of these moments up. Seemingly out of no where. Hence his current obsession with irony.
In the evening Amanda is very stressed with the final, and late, proof reading of her latest magazine. There is one piece about various religious festivals coming up in the autumn. In order to check spelling and meanings we call Danny. Danny converted to Islam about 20 years ago. I ask about Ramadan and the festival of Id. Danny responds accordingly and then says, in his cockney twang.
‘Oi, you thinking of converting?’
‘Yeah’ I said ‘Get me one of those funny hats and a prayer mat, and I’ll be away’
To which Dan says ‘Tell ya what, I’ll slaughter a lamb in the back garden and we’ll be right over!’
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