Monday 24th of June 2002
R. and I are going to Amsterdam tomorrow morning for 4 days, while Linda looks after you. Yesterday we had another argument (R. didn’t like the way I talked to him first thing in the morning, he never likes the way I talk to him). I said I can’t take this anymore and we need to split up. Linda was trying to convince me that we should work things out, but that’s what we’ve been trying to do since you were born! While we’re away for 4 days we will decide what to do, hopefully… I can’t write for too long now ’cause I’m going to take you swimming. I’ve got a list of things you say that I want to put here before it gets too late :
• Can you imagine it? (instead of Can you believe it?).
• We both sat on the washing machine while on spin cycle, pretending to be on a train. That was fun!
• You asked where you were before being born (before being in my tummy) and I said you just didn’t exist. You couldn’t grasp the concept of not existing so I said you were in a room with lots of babies waiting to be born…
• You asked the difference between a periscope and telescope (probably as a result of watching Peter Pan 100 times).
• ‘I’m the boss of this house!’