The Birthday Party

As if to prove smithski's comment that we have thousands of kids' birthdays, today was Andy's sixth birthday party. We took a bunch of his pals to Tattie Bogle (a soft play centre) where we met up with his cousins, and then had a birthday tea back at the house.

It was funny ferrying the kids about in the car, and listening to the nonsense they were talking. One of Andy's pals was loudly dismissing his little brother's lame taste in television: "yeah, so when he's watching Bratz I just shout 'Mum, mum - come and turn the telly over to Ben Ten will you?' 'cause Bratz is just so rubbish."

There was impressed silence for a moment. Then one of the other pals said, "so, you can't turn the telly over yourself, then?"

It's a minefield, trying to be cool.