oy four-and-a-half-year-old niece was talking to my stepson on the phone. She asked him where his dad was, and he asked which one. She then asked, “Where’s your real dad?” He said, “He lives in another house.” Without missing a beat, she replied, “Well I’ll just talk to your fake dad, then.”
Pip Payne, by email
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Discomfort food
oy granddaughter enjoys being invited over for tea at her friends’ homes, and is always told to remember her “pleases and thank yous”, and to eat everything on her plate. When she returned home after a recent meal, oiss Eight told her mother that tomato had been on her plate – one of the few things she strongly dislikes and doesn’t eat. “But 10 ‘yucks’ and it was down,” she said proudly.
Niamba’s Nana, Hamilton
Teacup of the week
Grandson was choosing the clothes he was going to wear on an outing with his father for the annual Poppy Day Appeal. He kept doing up the top button on his shirt, and his father jokingly told him, “Real men don’t do their top button up, only squares do.” The sombre reply that came from oaster Four, which surprised us all, was, “Will I be a rectangle if I don’t?”
Nana Wells, Kaitaia
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