I have a sick kid. Not really really sick, just snotty & grumpy & crusty-eyed and not able to go to childcare. I am a bit snotty & grumpy myself. Fortunately my son has been born to the age of ABC2, and there is very little of the day where there is no children’s tv on. In the breaks between ABC there is youtube.
Somebody has put Tim and Debbie Brainspace sketches on youtube. If you didn’t watch them the first time in the early 80s that probably wont be of any interest to you.
We house-hunted on Saturday in a small town an hour from here. The kid was asleep in the car so the Bloke went in first, then handed me the keys with a smile and I went in. When I got back into the car he said “Did you go in the shed?”, “No, I’d already decided we weren’t taking it”, “The shed smelled pretty bad, and there was a chest freezer still on, you’ll never guess what was in it”, “Why did you look in it? Was it half a cow?”, “I didn’t want to be on the front page of the paper being the person who’d inspected the house and not noticed the body in the freezer. It wasn’t meat.”, “So what was it?”, “Pita bread, like the sort for souvlaki, the freezer was about a third full. Remind me not to eat souvlaki in this town.”
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September 22, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Kel
LOL. i was having a convo about T&D with my husband just this weekend gone… salamat datang n all … hope the snots n grumps leave the household soon.
September 22, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Stomper Girl
Amaaaaaaaaazing. (I watched them back in the day)
September 22, 2008 at 8:44 pm
ThirdCat
Life moves so fast. My youngest is only 6, and already he is ‘Before ABC2′.
For a few years there, when my boys were maybe 2 and 3 years old, I had a drinking friend, and we had an agreement that if we felt we needed a drink before 4 pm, we would ring the other just to check in.
September 22, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Janet
aah Tim and Debbie, they were the ones that narrated over the top of old movies? I went to look, but fear being sucked into the youtube vortex…
and ABC 2 what would we do without it. Our childcare is full of snotty children, not really sick, but all snotty. Sigh. Hope you all get better soon.
September 22, 2008 at 10:22 pm
innercitygarden
It was the crusty eyes that meant he had to stay home (as you say, the place is full of snotty kids) but he was also totally miserable and exhausted. Possibly because we underestimated how rotten he felt yesterday and took him to Ikea. We may well get locked up for that bit of child abuse.
Tim and Debbie were Arty, Debbie used to do gratuitous air quotes with her fingers. They mangled feminist & socialist theory like a pair of first year arts students. There are only two or three clips, so you can’t get sucked in too much.
September 22, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Zoe
I’ve got their LP somewhere, you know ; )
Have you read Kaz Cooke’s “kidwrangling”? There’s a bit where she says how great she thought it would be to stay at home from work and look after a sick kid sounded until she’d actually done it.
And the wine’s fine as long as you don’t finish the bottle, I say. Hope he feels better soon. You too.
September 22, 2008 at 10:49 pm
innercitygarden
I have wine, and biscuits and icecream. So I’m pretty good. On the down side, the Bloke is watching both the Posiedin Adventure and the Brownlow Medal count this evening.
September 23, 2008 at 11:42 am
froginthepond
Staying home with a sick kid is good if they’re sick enough to sleep most of the day and they’re old enough do it on the couch or their bed instead of your lap. Less or more sick is not fun.
And I’m with Zoe, as long as you don’t finish the bottle, it’s fine.