Friday, December 19, 2008
Grampy Steve does building work.
It's that time of year again, the Festival of Consumerism. Nanna Gail has purchased 2 wooden dolls houses for her granddaughters and it was my task today to assemble both of these wonderful toys. The instructions clearly state: Adult assembly required, tighten all the screws before giving this toy to a child.
This was easy work for me, the instructions and construction were well planned. It just seemed rather daft to me, sat in the middle of the lounge floor making a girl's toy. Both granddaughter has her own dolls house, one roof is stenciled Lauren, the other Louise. It does seem strange assembling a toy for a child who has no biological link to me but calls me Grampy Steve. It all seems to belong to another world, a world that I have never lived in. Of course once the time has gone, it has gone forever - childhood never returns.
Still the task has been completed with no problems or bits left over. It does seem rather novel with all the electronic games available to children, that Lauren and Louise are getting a traditional and rather old fashioned wooden dolls house. What shall we give them when they become teenagers, a Personal Computer with 640kb of RAM running DOS?
It's that time of year again, the Festival of Consumerism. Nanna Gail has purchased 2 wooden dolls houses for her granddaughters and it was my task today to assemble both of these wonderful toys. The instructions clearly state: Adult assembly required, tighten all the screws before giving this toy to a child.
This was easy work for me, the instructions and construction were well planned. It just seemed rather daft to me, sat in the middle of the lounge floor making a girl's toy. Both granddaughter has her own dolls house, one roof is stenciled Lauren, the other Louise. It does seem strange assembling a toy for a child who has no biological link to me but calls me Grampy Steve. It all seems to belong to another world, a world that I have never lived in. Of course once the time has gone, it has gone forever - childhood never returns.
Still the task has been completed with no problems or bits left over. It does seem rather novel with all the electronic games available to children, that Lauren and Louise are getting a traditional and rather old fashioned wooden dolls house. What shall we give them when they become teenagers, a Personal Computer with 640kb of RAM running DOS?
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