petite anglaise

Mr Mania

12.09.2006 2:09 pmTadpole rearing
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Ever since I picked Tadpole up from school, crying, this time, because a classmate had tried to remove one of her Hello Kitty hair clips in the playground using brute force , I have had to remain in character. Or characters. It’s difficult to keep track, as Tadpole keeps changing her mind about who I am supposed to be.

“… would you like some Kiri on your pasta, Mr Happy?” I say in an exaggerated stage whisper as I pour the steaming contents of the pan into a colander.

“Yes, Kiri on my pastas. And sweetcorns,” she replies. There is no “please”, but I decide to let that one slide, for now.

“Baby tomatoes?” I continue, at normal volume.

“Mummy! I sayded that you were Mr Quiet!” shouts Tadpole, indignantly. Past tenses have taken an odd turn recently. Where previously they were correct, my daughter has started inventing new, arguably more logical forms, sayded, growded and cryded being the most common.

“Oh, sorry…I forgot you said that…” I whisper, battling to appear suitably contrite.

“You being just like Mr Forgetful, mummy.”

I perk up at the prospect of a change of character, tired of having to lower my voice. We move into Tadpole’s bedroom, where the Miffy table now has pride of place in front of the window. It’s less than ideal, but I don’t really have a dining area in the new flat, so for the time being I make do with this dolls house type arrangement, even when I dine alone.

This overwhelming obsession with the Mr Men began one fine July day when Tadpole spied the boxed set of books I had been saving until she was older as I unpacked our belongings in what she still refers to as “mummy’s new house”. I suppose I should be grateful for any Dora displacement activity. But now, every day, we have to talk like Mr Topsy Turvy (”Night good, mummmy!”), I am called upon to impersonate Mr Tickle on a regular basis and I spend a great deal of time sticking errant pages back in with “ruban daddyseive”. Clearly there was a good reason why this boxed set was so cheap.

“Oh calamity!” cries Tadpole, the next morning, quaking in front of her breakfast cereal, “jus’ like Mr Jelly”, because it is making a “sound noise”.

Drama school beckons, and, quite frankly, the prospect terrifies me.

91 comments

  1. Is Kiri on pasta one of those things the only under 8 crowd enjoys? Because somehow just the idea makes me stomach turn over. :s

    kim | 2:31 pm

  2. oh yes, i’m very familiar with this game. instead my son and i switch places. he is the daddy and i am the son. quite fun on most occassions, that is until the “timeouts” start.

    Hammers | 2:37 pm

  3. We do that one too. It doesn’t seem to stretch as far as her carrying me all the way home though, no matter how much I beg.

    petite | 2:40 pm

  4. Sounds like there is no need for drama class, it’s right there.

    joeinvegas | 2:44 pm

  5. Why Mr. and not Mrs. or Ms.?

    Mr Topsy Turvy, ok, but please don’t let her learn cockney double rhyming slang, whatever you do — that drives me up the wall.

    Lost in France | 2:58 pm

  6. Aw, Tadpole is sweet.

    Apparently that’s common in all kids’ learning processes: First they get it right, and then there’s a period where, secure in the feeling of knowing what to do, they start to get it wrong again as they experiment with new ways of doing it / branch out into the next level of profficiency.

    I love the way language becomes so much more malleable when you’re in the presence of a littl’un. My favourite idiosyncracy of Felix’s at the moment is this:

    “Did you didn’t like it, Mummy?”
    “Do you don’t have a bigger one?”
    “Is it isn’t raining?”

    Clare | 3:34 pm

  7. See your point, gets kids reading though, they do latch on to these things. Are you reading to her in English and French, that would be impressive!

    heather | 3:39 pm

  8. Mmm pasta and Kiri! Yummy!
    Oh, and I am impressed with Tadpole using the words “ruban adhésif” (regardless of how she really pronounces it). In my day we used to say “scotch” for any kind of ruban adhésif. I still do… hey, your 3-year old daughter’s French is better than mine!

    pardonmyfrench | 4:02 pm

  9. I also went through a big Mr Men phase. It’s great that you saved them for her.

    At least she doesn’t want to be Mr Messy or Mr Bounce…..

    Suze | 4:15 pm

  10. Wasn’t there a Mr Dangerous? I can see that causing some problems.

    Damian | 4:26 pm

  11. I just can’t do any game where they have control over me or tell me what to do…I panic they’ll make it a habit! Life with one kid does sound fun though - you can think about playing instead of the mountain of washing to put through the machine…
    :-)

    Lucy-Jane | 4:33 pm

  12. It’s a normal stage of language acquisition, the switch of past tense.

    First they just memorize the words - the correct form. Then they learn the actual rule for creating tense - like the ‘-ed’ ending and begin to reapply it to everything. Then they learn the special forms and start using them again.

    They do the same with plurals and pronouns as well. Stephen Pinker has written some great books about language acquisition “Language Instinct” (he’s like the Richard Dawkins of Cognitive Science - really a great writer).

    Chrysalis | 4:53 pm

  13. Wonderful.

    fjl | 4:53 pm

  14. treasure those words they say wrong. it’s so cute and once they figure out the correct way to say it you kind of miss the wrong way.

    my daughter is already telling me she is going to be a famous movie star. talk about dread!

    melani | 5:16 pm

  15. Either I have missed the hullaballoo over Mr. Men because my tadpole is now a pretty good-sized frog, or it’s not really present over here yet.

    What on EARTH is Kiri?

    JoAnne | 5:48 pm


  16. soft cheese

    petite | 5:57 pm

  17. You know you are starting to get old when…..

    ……you remember Arthur Lowe reading them on tv!

    Pete | 6:01 pm

  18. Is it really wrong that I want a complete set of Mr Men books? Mr Bump was always my favourite…

    Dave | 6:05 pm

  19. Ah yes, why didn’t I think of it. We need a meme. A which Mr Man are you, meme.

    I am Mr Fussy. When he straightens every single blade of grass between his fingertips, the uptight obsessive virgo in me swoons.

    petite | 6:10 pm

  20. Not to forget Arthur Lowe’s erstwhile sergeant John le Mesurier narrating Bod.

    Salvadore Vincent | 6:15 pm

  21. I used to love Mr Silly but Mr Uppity comes to mind these days.

    fjl | 7:02 pm

  22. Who(or what)is Mr. Man? ignorant minds needs to know! ;-)

    Dave of the Lake | 7:36 pm

  23. I loved the mr men books when i was little - and have to admit to possessing little miss sunshine socks now. I find that they are good to put on at the gym to make me smile…

    Kingston Girl | 8:41 pm

  24. I loved Mr. Bounce. I actually still have the French version (”bing bing bing bing bing”). Did you know Mr Sneeze was the first, written after Roger Hargreaves’ son asked him what a sneeze looks like? Now the entire company (around the Mr Men) belongs to this very son…(or so I believe. Forgive me if I’m wrong.)

    LaiLou | 8:42 pm

  25. What a little madam! How cute is that!

    We bypassed Mr Men - went straight from Dora to the Fanous Five..go figure!

    I also have the irregular verbs ‘regularised’ by my boys…I find it so funny and don’t want it to stop. Once they say it correctly I’ll know they have moved on to another stage…which always takes my breath away. Then have to figure out how to ‘move’ in the new stage.

    Geena | 9:38 pm

  26. Are there any Little Miss books in this box set as well?

    I remember having a larger format (and longer than usual) Mr Nosey book when I was little… I wonder if my parents were trying to tell me something!

    flechesbleues | 10:24 pm

  27. Can I presume, from Dave’s comment, that Mr Men books were not part of the standard 70s / 80s childhood in the United States? Arthur Lowe is the ONLY Mr Man reader possible, I can’t imagine Mr Uppity with an American accent either. Tadpole sounds like she should be kept well away from the Little Miss Naughty books, until she’s proven to be Little Miss Sunshine!
    Loved your cinema post, haven’t been for ages and you just inspired me to go!

    Paris Lights | 11:35 pm

  28. We spent a few months in France while my youngest was Tadpole’s age. As a consequence we (still) have some Mr Men in English, some in French and some in both. My vocabulary of children’s words improved no end: tickle, giggle etc.

    Our Tadpole learnt them off by heart from my reading them in English and although she couldn’t read, or speak French at the time, she would correct my variable translation if it wandered too far from what she had heard before.

    Now she is a really able linguist so it must have been a good introduction.

    varske | 12:06 am

  29. I loved Mr Topsy-Turvey because he always got everything wrong and Mr Wrong for exactly the same reason. Mr Messy (very messy) and Mr Bump (bumped into things a lot) were favourites too. Either my Mum or my Dad read one of the Mr Men books to my brother and me every night and then when my sister came along several years later she loved them too. I think my whole family knew them all off by heart in the end!

    Ben | 12:19 am

  30. Lailou, it was actually Mr Tickle, after his son asked him what a tickle looked like. Right story, wrong Mr Man.

    xx

    Isla | 1:12 am

  31. I’m trying to think of an American rough equivalent to Mr. Men, and can’t. Maybe Dr. Seuss?

    I just went to http://www.mrmen.com and am frankly stupefied by the sheer number of Mr. Men and Little Misses to choose from. Are the Little Misses sort of the lame afterthought?

    LJ | 1:40 am

  32. I’ve been rediscovering the Mr Men books with my two little ones - I’d forgotten about Arthur Lowe as narrator though!

    I used a couple of Mr Men books in French when I was teaching French. Had to white out all the verbs in passé simple and change them to passé composé because my class hadn’t learned passé simple yet. After reading a couple of them, I had them write their own. Some of them were brilliant! 14 year olds really can be delightfully childish at times :-)

    LivingAbroad | 2:03 am

  33. Chrysalis beat me to it. I was going to tell you the same thing about linguistic development and point you in the direction of Pinker for a scholarly but accessible examination of the phenomenen. For this particular interesting development (and how I envy you being able to observe it happening firsthand), try Words and Rules. We’re wired for grammar, just like Chomsky said!

    Passante | 2:25 am

  34. No, we definitely had them in the US too. I haven’t seen them here in years, but they were favorites when I was little too. I’d love to find them for my little ones.

    Jenny | 2:42 am

  35. None of my children were into the Mr Men. It seemed tazos, bob the builder etc etc…were more their scene.

    Maybe I missed it whilst work 6 days a week. :o(

    i do like the sound of Mr Fussy… it might have made them tidy their rooms!

    simon | 4:20 am

  36. OK ! I’m an idiot. What is kiri ?

    AA | 4:25 am

  37. Soft cheese, heh, that makes sooo much more sense. I googled it, and was imagining pasta drenched in soda pop. Blech!

    Jenny | 8:01 am

  38. Listening to the kids play at mummies and daddies, or teacher and pupil is always an education, and a few bad habits have been changed as a direct result. After a horrendous experience in CE1, my daughter wanted to become a teacher so she could be nasty to children. We tried to talk about what the problem was, but she wouldn’t open up later learnt that she had been told not to talk about school at home on pain of yet more lines! Hearing what her dolls went through, we took found a different school by Christmas.

    j | 10:56 am

  39. I believe without a doubt one would associate me with Mr. Worry. That’s basically me in a nutshell!

    As adorable as ever, your little Tadpole! I love reading your stories about her, and as has already been expresseed here, you share them so well… with just the right balance of comedy and sweetness!

    Always Ace | 11:28 am

  40. I just checked out the Mr Men site as well. I definitely don’t remember that many characters - and only Misters. I remember being particularly fond of Mr Messy - the easiest to draw as I recall - a scribble and a smile.

    My boys (6 & 4) seem to have bypassed Mr Men altogether. Dora and entourage rule in this house. Does anyone else get frustrated that all the Dora merchandise is directed at girls? - pink and lilac backpacks, pink and lilac lunchboxes, pink and lilac pencil cases etc. etc. I’m not being non-pc - both my boys have dolls - but both draw the line at pink toys and accessories.

    Perhaps you could invent Little Miss Tadpole, petite - now what would her defining character trait be….? I sense it might prove impossible to capture her as a one-dimensional caricature.

    Jayne | 11:28 am

  41. Hello Petite, been following your blog for a while now but haven’t commented as of yet. With regards to the last post, I think it’s normal to occasionally miss someone that you shared your life with over a long time. I wrote recently on my shared blog - ‘it’s the little memories that pop up from time-to-time that bring fleeting miss-you-moments for a past that will never become future.’ I think you just have to enjoy the good memories. As for Tadpole and drama school - France’s theatre culture is wonderful. Next week, I am coming to Paris - visiting friends whom I went to drama school with nine years ago in Lyon! Your blog is making me yearn for a sunny spot on a Parisian street corner and ‘un café crème!’

    Sister Louise | 12:22 pm

  42. Somewhere, hidden in the deepest darkest depths of my Dad’s attic, I have got an original, yes original Mr Men LP voiced by Arthur Lowe!!

    Fantastic- I haven’t thought about that in years. I wonder if it’s still playable?

    David in London | 2:01 pm

  43. Remember to reserve your sense of humour for ‘Miss Stroppy Teenager’ in a few years.
    A character that I felt was under explored in the books.
    Of course you will be unimaginably old by then :)

    meredic | 2:12 pm

  44. I found a Mr. Men DVD of the original first series and my boys love it. I just love the way Arthur Lowe calls Mr.Happy ‘Mr.Heppeh’. Got a load of other 70’s series too, like Bod (infuriatingly catchy theme tune which you will be whistling for days), Bagpuss (Professor Yaffle was definitely my hero) Mr Benn (yay!) and the now-very-scary Fingerbobs. Yoffy freaks me out now, how could I have watched it as a child? And of course the seminal Roobarb and Custard. :) Ah! they made telly to last in those days…
    Oh and I’m Mr. Bump, no doubt about it.

    suziboo | 2:27 pm

  45. Bring back THE FLUMPS, I say. Especially Pootle.

    petite | 2:34 pm

  46. Sorry Isla, you’re right. I’d pulled that from the back of my memory and knew Mr Sneeze was one of the first, but there you go. :-)
    POOTLE!
    Don’t know any interesting facts about the flumps, but I lurved them to bits. They were fluffy and made cute sounds, weren’t they??

    LaiLou | 3:14 pm

  47. The cryded etc made me remember my own daughter’s early take on clothes, the singular for which became “clo”. “Which clo shall I wear today?” etc.

    They quickly growded up now of course…

    Murphy | 3:20 pm

  48. Roobarb and Custard? Small, round, orange men with disproportionately long arms I can handle, but blue cats? It’ll never catch on! Actually my daughter tells me that Roobarb and Custard has been revived and is currently showing on one or other of the satellite channels (unfortunately).

    I got her DVDs of both Trumpton and Camberwick Green a couple of years ago and will keep an eye out for original Mr Men - I wonder if at 7 she is maybe too old?

    Reading wise we’re doing Horrid Henry at the moment, and even I had to chuckle at the “How does a mathematician deal with constipation?” joke in Horrid Henry’s joke book!

    Pete | 3:38 pm

  49. Back in the day, stealing my Hello Kitty barrettes would get a bitch killed!

    “Oh calamity!” That is likely the most precious thing I’ll read all day.

    Broady | 4:08 pm

  50. Camberwick Green, Nr Chigley, Trumptonshire!

    I always fancied being Mr Tickle, the trouble you could make with those arms.

    Craig | 4:54 pm

  51. I live in the U.S. and teach French and English to high school students. Last summer I took my fourth trip with students to France. This time we did London and France. Loved it!!!!!! Except we were there around the time of the anniversary of the bombings in London and it was hotter than hades. Have just discovered your blog within the last week and love it too.

    Keep up the good writings.

    mamanP | 5:03 pm

  52. “Bring back THE FLUMPS, I say. Especially Pootle.”

    Gee, and I thought Dick and Jane was the joint………..Clearly I was a deprived child :-D

    Dave of the Lake | 5:38 pm

  53. Paris Lights - I went again!!! On my Tadpole free evening, I saw “Thumbsucker”. Alone again. And it was still bliss.

    petite | 6:03 pm

  54. I live in the States and I was born in 62 - definitely do NOT remember Mr. Men from the 70s and 80s. I have a much younger brother (born in 72) so I think I’d have seen the books if they were big here then, but maybe not! By the 80s, little ones were so totally not any part of my life that a Mr. Man could have been elected President and I’d have been oblivious. Well, bad example.

    JoAnne | 6:08 pm

  55. “Thumbsucker”? Dare i ask what that was about? I went through a Mr Men phase as well, dont worry it should only last a few years. Im trying to remember, was there a Mr. Clumsy? If so that would be my squat, male, equivalent. Is kiri like a francaise version of dairylea?

    Whisper | 6:22 pm

  56. I liked the
    Clangers     , especially the Soup Dragon :-)

    Jim | 6:34 pm

  57. I liked Bagpuss, it always ended with the same phrase and I found it very touching…”Bagpuss was the most saggy old cloth cat in the world but Emily loved him.” Ahhh.

    Susannah | 8:20 pm

  58. I think the past tenses are normal, my daughter does that too - I think they think all past tenses should have 2 syllables like French ones, ie “I walk-ed”. She also says “I grimped” or “il faut crosser la rue”. I guess it’s franglais.
    I always found Mr Men rather annoying. These days I get to re-read my old Topsy & Tims, so uncool 50s throwbacks that they are surely cool again ?

    Kate | 9:10 pm

  59. I agree with you about Bagpuss, Susannah.
    Mr Ben was the best, too.

    Kate | 9:11 pm

  60. Aaah Bagpuss….
    ‘Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss,
    Old fat furry cat-puss,
    Wake up, and look at this thing that I bring,
    Wake up, be bright, be golden and light,
    Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing.’

    I always thought it was a prayer when I was little!
    Delight of delights….I bought the complete DVD - for the children of course - and then couldn’t resist and got a huge, lifesize Bagpuss, just like the real one, that I cuddle whenever I feel low!
    And then there’s the Wombles…
    Bring back the WOMBLES OF WIMBLEDON! Eco-warriors par excellence! We need you!

    Lucy-Jane | 9:58 pm

  61. I’m pretty sure I remember Mr Men, and I’m a (US) child of the ’80s . . . they may just have a striking resemblance to the characters on the boxes of smelly/fruit-scented markers we had at school, tho.

    emily | 12:15 am

  62. I think I know the reason they have Mr. Men books instead of Ms. Women. They probably can’t have children’s books with Ms. Bloated, Ms. Cranky, Ms. Bi-polar, Ms. Sleep-deprived, and Ms. Needs-her-coffee.

    Neila | 5:40 am

  63. Jim:- I have to agree. Hey, as for a tripod for the telescope. Will a camera tripod do the trick?…

    simon | 9:12 am

  64. More Bagpuss memories for fans ( and Petite, I KNOW you remember this one):

    “We will find it, we will bind it, we will stick it with glue glue glue,
    We will stickle it, every little bit of it, we will stick it like new new new.”

    (The helium-voiced mice in the barrel organ).

    Mancunian Lass | 9:39 am

  65. Correction: should be “every LICKLE bit of it”

    Mancunian Lass | 9:41 am

  66. I loved the Magic Roundabout too - which was French originally wasn’t it?

    The bloke that narrated it was Emma Thompson’s dad.

    Craig | 9:48 am

  67. jim, the Clangers were fantastic, what were they made of though? I seem to remember they were knitted or something.

    heather | 10:04 am

  68. Mary, Mungo & Midge? Anyone?
    Mind you, Larry the Lamb and Muffin the Mule might show too many wrinkles.

    j | 10:20 am

  69. Kate, yes you’re right, Topsy and Tim were great. I seem to remember the stories were full of little life coping skills, like how to cope with being ill and going to see the doctor. Topsy & Tim Go to the Doctor… Topsy had a sore throat and Tim had earache which was very painful but the nice doctor gave them medicine, pink for Topsy and yellow for Tim and before you could say Jack Robinson they were both back to their chirpy little selves again. I think they had a friend called Tansy.

    Susannah | 10:39 am

  70. I agree about Topsy and Tim having practical applications. I use the example of Topsy wandering off in the supermarket and getting lost every time we go to Franprix, to coax Tadpole into the trolley seat.

    petite | 11:22 am

  71. I am the proud owner of a Mr. Bump pencil case. On it Mr. Bump is saying “if you don’t keep your pencils in this I’ll come and bump you.” I also have a Mr. Bump pillbox. Hmmm, bet they’d be big on EBay, but I’ll never never sell.

    Lisa | 2:54 pm

  72. Hi Petite,
    Hoping that conciliation today goes well…will check back later for an update!

    Karen

    Karen Mc Cullagh | 2:56 pm

  73. I remember when it was all fields round here.

    backroads | 3:19 pm

  74. very nice to see you backroads… takes me back

    petite | 4:38 pm

  75. Héhé, elle est charmante cette petite!
    Et elle a bon goût, en plus : j’adore les pâtes au Kiri.

    Désolée de poster en français, mais j’ai épuisé tout mon anglais à lire tes posts. J’aime beaucoup ton blog que je lis depuis quelques semaines, il me fait bien rire.

    Melody | 6:28 pm

  76. Does anyone remember the name of that old childrens show with the three fat life-sized-rag-doll type things that always counted in French and said “Ooh la-la”?

    Whisper | 7:05 pm

  77. Thanks Susannah, Topsy & Tim ARE great, just don’t buy the current reprints, Mummy has lost her elegant hat & glove combo and is now a pearl-wearing sloane. Tansy was a later addition in the caring-sharing 70s - adopted sister & racial minority (in T&T suburbia that is).
    PS Petite, you could try putting Tadpole in the main part of the trolley, it’s more fun - just make sure the shopping doesn’t get squashed.

    Kate | 8:50 pm

  78. Just curious (being an English teacher), when your daughter speaks (her version of) English, does she have a French accent?

    J | 9:49 pm

  79. Tadpole has an English accent with flat Yorkshire vowels. Just the odd word comes out with her French mouth sometimes, like “coat” which sounds more like “ceaut”, a little on the aristocratic side.

    petite | 10:29 pm

  80. Just found your site and I think that it is very interesting. Tadpole is very lucky to have two native languages! One of my parents is a native Spanish speaker, but we never spoke Spanish in our home. I speak Spanish now, but it would have been so much easier if I had always used it.

    Jill in Honduras | 6:22 am

  81. I am finally realizing that Topsy and Tim and Mr. Man and what not are generational things and I, not having any children of my own, am just too OLD to understand :(

    Lost in France | 6:31 am

  82. Lost in France, please cheer up, don’t be sad… and you’re never too OLD to understand.

    Susannah | 8:46 am

  83. What the f[***] is Kiri?

    Sir Pantsalot | 10:03 am

  84. The 3 fat rag dolls were “Tots TV” Tilly, Tom and Tiny. There was also a donkey and a ball of fluff called Furryboo. Tilly was the French bird. Tom was condecending and Tiny appeared a bit simple. This was on in the early 90’s and my daughter loved it. Contributions from my childhood - “Torchy torchy the Battery Boy” and “Mr Ed” the talking horse.

    Di | 10:28 am

  85. Whisper,

    Do you mean Tots TV? Only one of the characters was French - Tilly (she spoke Spanish in the US version!), the rest spoke English. There was a Donkey and a mysterious “thing” called Furryboo. My kids thought it was great. The company that made it have a shop in Stratford Upon Avon that used to have a huge narrowboat in it where the kids could watch Rosie & Jim.

    Craig | 10:36 am

  86. They just don’t make’em like they used to…French kids’ TV is *dire*; all Japanese cartoons, and stuff full of violence and snogging. Not that I’m averse to a bit of snogging, but just misplaced in kids’ cartoons. My lot adore Balamory, and cos they’re used to saying English words as they hear them - they’ve got no idea of different accents - they sing the Balamory theme tune and say the characters’ names with a wonderful Scots’ accent! My granny would be so proud…(Glasow roots, see).

    Lucy-Jane | 11:24 am

  87. Hi PA

    Haven’t been blogging as long as you but I have to say you were one of the inspiratiions that it could be something other than student self-indulgence.

    To the point - does whisper mean Hectors House? French 1970’s puppetry show starring I think hector the dog, kiki the frog, and zaza the cat, who passed cynical comments from a ladder over the garden wall?

    Fare thee well - and have a look at my blog if you like; we’re bookish people both I think.

    Drew Mishmash | 11:32 am

  88. Ah, the lovely Mr Men. I loved Button Moon too. And Fingermouse!

    When I was three, I fell of my (Rainbow Brite) bike and broke my elbow. (It was my first time without stabilisers…) My father painted Mr Bump and Little Miss Naughty on my plastercast - one of my most treasured childhood memories!

    redlady | 11:55 am

  89. Scarily, the most recent Topsy & Tim books are *very* PC, with several of T&T’s friends being of different nationalities and also I’m fairly sure one is in a wheelchair…

    I remember T&T talking to the milkman in one book who said that there was just enough blue sky to “patch a Dutchman’s trousers” or similar. I had no idea what that meant, and had to ask my mum…

    IsoChick | 1:32 pm

  90. TOTS TV!! That was it! I used to watch Rosie and Jim as well, my favourite character was the duck that sat on top of the boat.

    Whisper | 10:39 pm

  91. Congratulations! The articles on your blog are really excellent and provide an authentic picture of what life is like here in this marvelous city of Paris. I am Bavarian/ German and it is very interesting to see our cultural diversities in our beautiful Europe!

    Karl- Heinz Schabmüller | 10:05 pm

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