Kissing

Mal, Alannah and Jordy are arriving this afternoon and we have been counting down the sleeps! Jossie and Alannah and Toby and Jordy will be having slumber parties every night, the grown-ups can play the Spicks and Specks interactive quiz and watch The Long Way Down (it feels so good to be back with Charley and Ewan) and we can all go bowling and play tennis and whatever else is available to play on the wii. We could, of course, go outside but it is terribly hot, and there are insects... and rodents (Pippy came home for a visit).

I have some chocolate banana bread in the oven (from Nigella's How to be a domestic goddess - I highly recommend it, even when you have to leave out the rum-soaked sultanas because several family members don't like them) and Toby chatted to me while I made it. He was telling me how he and Jossie connect their Tamogotchis and they go on honeymoons even though they aren't married. I told him that you really need to be married to go on a honeymoon because that's what a honeymoon is, a holiday you go on just after you get married. He wasn't convinced but he told me about how he and Ella F(with three Ellas in a class they all had to have an initial) were talking about marry (that's how he said it). As it happens, Thomas wants to marry Matilda but Toby and Ella F don't want to get married because Miss Shipard (their teacher) isn't married. Also, you have to kiss. Toby is not at all keen on that and checked that kids aren't ever required to get married. After making sure that he was not going to have to kiss anyone he said that when Thomas and Matilda get married, if they are in a kissing mood, they can kiss all the time, and he giggled.

This is he and Jossie doing a wii bit of boxing, which, surely, is the opposite of kissing.