COOL FOR CATS

Dear Alice,

Short of time at the moment due to a lot of work arriving on my desk in much the same way London buses have a habit of turning up – but I always have time for you… though I will need to be brief.

Last week Teacher Mum and I went to the opening night of Cats at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in Star City. It was much more acrobatic than the last version we saw, but equally enjoyable nonetheless. We had also been invited to the after party in the Grand Ballroom which, as Teacher Mum is TS Eliot royalty, we had to attend. Whether TS Eliot would have approved of the three scantily clad, gyrating female DJs, dressed in sexy lingerie is, well… questionable. Personally though, I thought them very talented. The Cats audience consisted of an alarming number of women wearing leopard skin print clothing. I couldn’t work out whether this was a poor fashion statement, or just lame girlie humour. The other two noticeably large group types observed by me while people watching at the interval were, couples of gay men, and mothers with their ten-year-old daughters. And yes, Mum did see some girls she knew.

Rodent Boy, after a blistering start to the school year powering through Bronze, Silver and already nearly reaching his Gold Merit award had a minor set-back this week when he got a detention. Minor misdemeanours had unfortunately accumulated the required demerits, which therefore qualified him for a little extended stay at school tonight. Elliott having never had a detention was quick to retalitate the sibling scorn shown recently by Tristan following the announcement of his inclusion in the Football A team, something he was very well aware Elliott had failed to achieve when he was in Year 5. Oh the joys of parenthood!

The weather here has been wet, wet, windy and wet. All football has been cancelled, including training, making for one very grumpy ten-year-old boy who has been stomping around the house bored and angry. In an inspired move, Mum bought him FIFA World Cup for Wii and this virtual football appears to have temporarily quenched his thirst to play the real game. He is noticably excited about the upcoming World Cup though, as of course am I.

Elliott has thankfully recovered now from his recent ‘Man Cold’. If you want to see what he has been like to live with, watch the video below. Actually watch it anyway as it will prepare you for what you can expect from any future male partner when they are unwell.

Love : D