March 16, 2008

Family life

After one of my comments (on Lord Goldsmith's proposal that schoolchildren swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen) is quoted in the Sunday Times, No 1 Son offers his congratulations: "That's great, Dad! Now you can say you've been 'published' - time to quit while you're ahead."

Daughters. I should have had daughters.

Then again, maybe not:
"Daughters. They're a mess no matter how you look at 'em. A headache 'til they get married - if they get married - and after that they get worse. Either they leave their husbands and come back with four kids and move into your guest room or the husband loses his job and the whole caboodle comes back. Or else they're so homely that you can't get rid of them at all and they hang around the house like Spanish moss and shame you into an early grave."
Well, that's Officer Kockenlocker's take on it anyhow.