18/02/2012

An invitation for Wilson

Wilson is still brooding over his Valentine's Day card. He hadn't noticed until re-examining it this morning that the envelope was addressed to Boo Vermilingua, his real, birth name. 'This person must be the daughter of someone who knows my mother, Mrs Vermilingua' he mused, 'Or perhaps a childhood friend.'
This puzzle paled into insignificance, however, when he opened today's mail and found a letter from the Mayor of Uckfield inviting him to the Mayor's Parlour in a few days time. Reading through the invitation, he told me, 'It says I can bring a guest or a Significant Other -- I suppose you'd better come with me, New Dad.'
I wouldn't want to miss this for the world…

17/02/2012

Care plan

The goldfish care books have arrived and Wilson is working his way through them, taking copious notes and drawing up Shortlists and Action Plans with his coloured pens. 
When he read that goldfish can be fed on ants' eggs he became very excited and pointed out that they could share meals together. I can't see the goldfish getting fat that way!
I noticed that one of W's lists is of films the goldfish is not allowed to watch; so far, just Jaws, The Little Mermaid and Finding Nemo!

16/02/2012

Settling in

Wilson hasn't moved away from his fish all day - he watches its every move and frets about whether he's too warm/cold/hungry/bored etc. The poor fish must think he's got a stalker! 
I've ordered him some books about looking after goldfish, which I hope will help.

15/02/2012

A new friend for Wilson

Putting the irritation(!) of yesterday's events behind him, Wilson and I headed off to the aquarium shop. W has had time to think about the various fish he saw on his last visit, and it didn't take him long to make up his mind today. 
I think he's very pleased with the purchase of his new friend -- during the drive home he held the bag up to the window so his fish could see where he was going, and I found him talking to it later!

14/02/2012

Love hurts ♥

This morning Wilson received a Valentine's Day card. Inside, the message read, "I love you more than ants…" signed from a Secret Admirer and followed by five kisses. To my surprise, he seemed a bit annoyed! 
I think his irritation partly stems from the fact that the image on the front is based on his drawing, and partly because I hadn't told him anything about Valentine's Day. 'This is a massive money-making opportunity, and you didn't tell me about it!' he complained. 
I tried to distract him by quizzing him about who his secret admirer might be. 'Someone with the hacking skills to get into my iPad and steal my copyrighted drawing, I would imagine' he replied testily. 
I explained that if she had used the image only once, to send to him, it would probably fall under the heading of Fair Dealing, but he was not to be mollified. Then I suggested that someone with such hacking skills and disregard for the law must be a little like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This gave him something to think about: a girl anteater admirer resembling the heroine of his favourite novel...
All this has put him in a bit of a preoccupied mood, which has quite disrupted our planned visit to the aquarium shop to select his goldfish...

13/02/2012

Something fishy...

After the excitement of our trip to the film studios, Wilson is feeling a sense of anticlimax, so we've just been to the aquarium shop to choose his goldfish. 
W had a lot of trouble making up his mind, so we've arranged to go back again tomorrow to make his final decision. 
As well as a big selection of goldfish they had a lot of more exotic fish… but I've put my foot down about an octopus. 

12/02/2012

'That's a wrap!'

The last thing we did at the studios was to be taken out to a huge warehouse on the 'back lot' where they keep some of their old scenery. There they showed Wilson a background from MOON with one of the lunar rovers. Then a continuity girl came in and took Wilson's photo standing in front of it and holding a clapper board, and they let him bring the clapper board home as a souvenir of his visit. 
Ever since the trip, Wilson has been running round the house with his clapper board and an old Sony Hi8 camcorder shouting things like, 'Mark it!', 'Silence on the Set!' and 'That's a wrap - well done everybody!'.