After hearing the NZ anthem on Sunday morning (yes I taped the ABs v Springboks game, it was at 2AM local time), my 6 yo daughter goes:
“NZ is not a free land, you still have to do what your parents say”
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Ah, the National Anthem. It always makes me think of Australia, by way of contrast.
Admittedly, I’m not sure that most of Australia is even aware of the supposed trans-Tasman rivalry that most of NZ seems to hold dear, but they can certainly lord it over us in the Nation Anthem department.
I like to summarise our respective anthems like so:
Australia: “Go Australia!”
New Zealand: “Help.”
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My children are on fire this week. After finding in the news yesterday that there were quadruplets born in Hawke’s Bay for the first time in a few years, the usual “Could you imagine that?” conversation came up at dinner.
My 10 yo daughter : “No way, I would not share my room with two other kids”
To this my 6 yo daughter answered: “But we would have two little minions each”
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Your 6 year old will go far! 
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She already does, she can move fast as well 
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(From a child talking to his brother, sitting on a thousand year old pillar amongst the historical wonders of York):
Alright, best city ever? A - London, B - Hong Kong or C - Sheffield?
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An interesting question historically.
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Hold my beer. I have to fix the telescope.
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A man to his female partner:
“How’s your crabbies?”
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Shocking behaviour. That man deserved a slap.
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You won’t believe what he said next about a year-long yeast infection.
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That was an entirely forgivable slip of the tongue, or so I’ve have heard.
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Whatever caused it, it’s not something to discuss in public.
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“What would you do without me? Still have caramel on your tits!”
“Yeh, and not in a good way!”
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The only possible response is ‘Yes please, I’d like another pint’
Crabbie’s Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer. I recommend.
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“North Korea is probably littered with forgotten kimchi vestibules”
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“I just cut myself on a banana.”
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“There are no mistakes in jazz, only bold creative decisions.”
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This may be why I’m not a huge fan of jazz.
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Well, there’s jazz and then there’s jazz…
I like the old jazzy pop standards, stuff from the 20s and 30s like Honeysuckle Rose and It’s Only a Paper Moon, rather than the full-on improvisational stuff you need a doctorate in jazzology from the jazz university of Jazzville to begin to understand and appreciate. Some later stuff puts me in mind of the (probably apocryphal) story of a classical musician who was taken to a Jimi Hendrix concert and, when asked what he thought of it, said, “I wish I could play like that, then I never would.”
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