Bootblacks

[bauhiniakapok]

I have just discovered another nice thing about having children. My two sons saw me dumping black polish on the scuffed grey toes of my black-booted feet (and dripping it liberally on the balcony floor, but that is besides the point). 3-year-old son was fascinated by my decrepit battery-operated spinning polisher thing, so I handed it over, and

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[eglantine_br]

Look! There you are. Or your feet at least. That is a sweet photo, your two little boys are completely absorbed by the task. I do miss having little ones, now my kids are big.

(What were you reading on LJ-- was it about Archie??)

[bauhiniakapok]

It was my friends feed, the Advent offerings! Before that I was working steadily through your list again, but then I got bunnytrailed into reading a lot of Lee Adama, mostly by widget285. I read all her Archie/Horatio some time ago, but now I am reading the BSG fic too, even though I have only seen tiny snippets of the shows on Wikipedia and our Chinese version of YouTube. I( got confused when someone referred to A/H in the comments and meant it to be Apollo/Helo, instead of Our Boys!) I am growing fond of the BSG characters as well. I would have liked the show if I had known about it when it was on. One of the drawbacks of not watching TV, I suppose. But it also filters out a lot of dross, even if I don't stumble on gold until ten years after everybody else has buried it.

[mylodon]

Start them young!