Second Weekly update - in the same week

I bought a dragon. I mean a kite. But it is so easy to confuse those things. After all they do have similarities. Not to mention that there are lots of kites which are constructed in the image of dragons. And in my language at least, they are the same word. Sárkány. It is not here yet though. Will be soon and the fun begins. Tobi is delighted too and in his great delight he got some pets.

My sister once came home with a bunny. I was about 6 at the time. When finally we got rid of it weighed as much as a… well, a full grown rabbit. She has recently, 20 years and a bit later bought another one. Tobi of course didn’t bring home a tender and fluffy soft rabbit. I don’t think it would have made it home. Jen would be concerned about mess in kitchen as well… And I think Tobi knows himself. He handles his meat outside the house, we only go as far as tuna out of a can. Well, he is a predator so I don’t ask him about rabbits. He brought home 3 lion cubs. They were sweet and settle in the kitchen quickly but the cute cubs will only be cute and small for a time. Three grown lions however have some different ideas about living together… Tobi for dinner, etc and when I mentioned that Tobi decided maybe it was best to take them back to their mom and leave them to be. I thought it was a good idea.

Lili is getting into drawing dragons. I try to but the one we have in the house is an impossible model. The moment you need him to be still, he cannot stop fidgeting and moving. Like a six years old boy in a Scottish primary school. You say ‘listen up folk’ and the moment those 3 words left the teacher’s mouth, pupils look in all directions, ears shut, brain temporarily dead, face especially blank and hand… I am not even going to get into what hands might be doing. I can say, that after three years in lower primary I think I’ve seen it all but probably I had only a heart introduction.

Tobi is the same. He will sleep for hours in the shape of a ball, covered with wings, motionless, useless to picture, he will sit in the window, drinking sunlight , providing excellent profile till one picks up the pencil. Lili and I practice, but most of our drawings come from imagination.

I can’t wait to get my kite and fly it. Jen said that for a while she won’t accompany me to such events. She said that she doesn’t want spending an afternoon repeating every so often ‘Can I have a shot?’ less and less expectantly receiving variations of ‘in a minute’ every time for answer.