The one where MrSpud gets it wrong
Posted under People I love, Photography, Witterings
I love MrSpud for many reasons, one of which is his sheer gutsiness. I must say that I do try not to tell him too often, just to keep him on his toes and also as a kind of ongoing vengeance for The Saucepans. On which note, a friend told me that his wife just bought him one of those files for removing dead skin from your feet as a wedding anniversary present….love that, “Here, Happy Anniversary! Now take this and turn those trotters back in to feet wouldya?”
But back to MrSpud and his funny little ways. Yesterday he goodly offered to take the boys to the park in a bike trailer despite the blistering heat. The boys were pretty chuffed about this as they’ve never been in a bike trailer before. So we borrowed one from our friend, who luckily was too busy filing his trotters to take his own children out and about in it.
Here are the boys, clipping themselves in and ready to go. Note hard hats…don’t you love their utter trust in their father’s ability to get them places in one piece:
Is there a life jacket with a whistle for attracting attention anywhere?
Bye Mummy! Feel free to loaf around on the sofa surfing the net while we’re gone won’t you?
Bertie looking a little unsure, still looking for the life jacket?
Ready for the off, MrSpud looking confident…er but MrSpud, you’re not supposed to PUSH the bike, you’re supposed to cycle it?
MrSpud looking confident
Oh good, he’s worked it out, he’s getting on the bike, this is good:
Nice sandals...do you wear socks with those sometimes MrSpud?
Hoorah, they’re off. Oh, but MrSpud…it’s a bit of a hill…do you think, perhaps, you’ve over estimated your own strength? You’re only very little remember and you’ve got two heffalumps in the back there?
Note Bertie looking entirely unimpressed in the back
Oh, and he’s OFF. Yes, he is OFF the bike and pushing again having cycled for approximately 2 metres (admittedly a little better than my 21cm shot put).
And he's off...I repeat..he is off
COOOOEEEEE MrSpud, turn around, let’s get a shot of you in your moment of shame shall we? No?
Run MrSpud! Run like the wind...
Giggle. I don’t ‘think’ he pushed them all the way to the park, but MrSpud learnt a valuable lesson about how embarrassing it is when you wildly overestimate your own strength and have your wife photograph the entire episode and then write about it on the WWW DOT, as my Grandad calls it. How he must wish he’d ticked the ‘must be loving and supportive’ box when shopping for me on the internet. No point trying to get a refund now MrSpud, I’m used goods, my packaging is not intact and my labels have been removed. You’re stuck with me! Now stop whining or I’ll buy you a de-trotter for your birthday.
I was giggling (quietly as am at work) the entire time I read this. Poor Mr. Spud. But yay for you!
I totally agree with VEG, I’m snorting quietly because really who wants a loudly snorting pharmacist?
Anyway, once again reading your posts has totally made my almost-crappy monday not crappy at all!
ha ha ha!Love the picture of the boys looking for their life jackets and whistle :) Poor MrSpud. He has my sympathy. Whenever we go for a bike ride, it is always me saddled with the extra 12 kilos of baby plus 6 kilos of seat – so that is my excuse as I huff and puff after everyone else. At least Denmark is flat.
Poor Mr Spud! :) I’ve said it before, but your children are beautiful!
Poor MrSpud! Major cool dad points for thinking about the bike trailer though.
You completley crack me up. And, sweet MrSpud to bear the brunt of your humor on this lovely morning. Oh, such lovely, yummy kiddies you two produce. Gorgeous enough to eat. Ok, well just kiss an awful lot.
Waaaaah! I can sympathise as I rarely cycle and when I do frequently get off and push. I can only imagine how heavy two small children must be, gorgeous though they are.
You remind me of my husband as he likes to refer to my feet as trotters – grrrrrrr!
It really does look idyllic where you live – can I come to tea???
I think I love MrSpud too.
But only for his cycle prowess.
Laughing, laughing, laughing.
I won’t be laughing soon, though, as I am about to go on a biking tour of Catalonia. We’ve had the itinerary for months and just bothered to look at it tonight. Rather worryingly, we kept coming across the word HILLY. (That will be me, pushing the bike!)
News just in from MrSpud [said in squeeky indignant Small Man voice]…”I was in the wrong gear”….yes love, soooths brow, whatever, of course you were, whatever, it’s so not your fault, whatever, you’re all [small] man in my book, whatever, blah blah blah xxx
BTW, MrSpud is, I promise, completely cool with me shredding him on the internet. It’s amazing how compliant he is when I have him in a headlock?
WWaaahhhh that’s hilarious… i’m shocked he didn’t look more indignant, he’s a keeper!!! Steve would have been all “the look” at me, telling me to put the ffing camera down and help push!!! Superdy duper cute kids.
HAHAHAHAAAa…just realized i am still signed in as Mrs. Roddy… quicky divorce and i’m back to being me again.
Personally, I loved this post as there were one, two, three…four shots of his lovely posteriere! Maybe Mr.Spud is more cunning than you think.
that was priceless. i really must learn to cart my camera around more often. husband has many moments like these and it’s a real pity that i don’t have photos to shame him with.
Poor Mr.Spud. hehe…I love this series of shots. You’re so mean. hehe
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