This And That

[poliphilo]

1. Ailz is watching Wallender on the BBC i-player. She calls out to tell me I have a better body than Kenneth Branagh- which is nice, . Apparently he's all doughy and white- with saggy tits.  I watched the show the other night- and can't say I noticed.

2. Odi rings. We haven't seen her since the other side of Christmas. She says Fabi has been touching his palm with his forefinger, then moving it up under his arm- which she interprets as him missing his grandad (me)  because I'm the only one who plays that game with him. You know the game I mean? You trace a circle on the child's palm, walk your fingers up the arm them tickle him, whilst reciting,
 
Round and round the garden
Like a teddy-bear
One step,
Two step,
And tickley under there.

The suspence is delicious. My dad used to play it with me. I hated it- but always wanted him to do it again.

3. More verse- from a song I used to play on my mother's wind-up gramophone.

The kings horses,
The kings men,
They marched up the road and they marched down again;
The kings horses
And the kings men.

For some reason that's going round and round my head this morning. There must be more to it, but that's all I know.

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[daisytells.livejournal.com]

We sang a version of "The kings horses" repeated again and again, faster and faster until everyone collapsed giggling:

"The grand old Duke of York (sitting)
He had ten thousand men
He marched them up the hill (stand quick)
And marched them down again. (sit down)
And when you're up you're up (stand)
And when you're down you're down (sit)
But when you're only halfway up (half out of the seat)
You're neither up nor down." (stand quick and sit quick)

Now you have me started on a whole new segment for my memoirs "Kids' Songs and Games of Yesterday".

[sina-says.livejournal.com]

i was just going to say that. we always sang (did) that one at summer camp!

now it's stuck in my head.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I sing that one to Fabi. :)

I believe the Grand old Duke was a real historical character- possibly one of the sons of George III.