Daleks + children. But not at the same time.

[elisi]

I... have no words: Dalek found in pond.

Of course then fandom (yet again) goes and proves itself to be made of awesome, by immediately making a comm for 'How did the Dalek get there?' stories: dalekinthepond! :)

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And, since I'm here, I thought I could relate a couple of stories about the children, which is something I do far too seldom.

From this morning when we were walking to school:

Impish Girl (7): Mum! Guess what I found in school yesterday?
Me: Go on, tell me.
Impish Girl (triumphantly): A pen that doesn't work!
(She held it up under my nose - it is v. short & red)
Impish Girl: See I'm pretending that it is a sonic lipstick. And also an invisible pen and a laser!

And from a couple of weeks ago (but it really stuck with me):

Miss M (10): Mum - what does gormless mean?
Me: Um... stupid. Vacant-looking.
Miss M: OK.
(Pause)
Miss M: What's a gorm?
Me: ...

(Of course the second we got home I looked it up in the OED, and it turns out that 'gorm' comes from the old norse gaum, meaning 'understanding'.)

Comments

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

woo hoo! Daleks were built to last!

Love that picture of the guy holding up the head, all covered in pond-weed.

And: woo OED! Another mystery solved!

I lovers the OED. Hope I never have to, like, buy myown copy!

Adore the snippets of childish wonder. Look! A pen that doesn't work! Legendary find!

[elisi]

Your comment made me grin muchly, and yes to everything. :)

(Darcy would LOVE his own [hardback] copy of the OED. I'm telling him to earn a million or two first...)

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

My husband has come close to getting me a copy - if by "close" you mean "Priced the DVD version".

Tempting!!

But I work for a university, and so the online OED is at my fingertips, 24/7! Whee!

Gorm away!

[elisi]

My husband has come close to getting me a copy - if by "close" you mean "Priced the DVD version".
I think there's some sort of two volume TINY print cut-down version that Darcy has his eyes on...

Words are fun! :)

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

My parents bought that, years ago. It came with its very own magnifying glass as part of the package...

[elisi]

That just makes me want it even more...