You got the "busy" signal again, so while you wait for Old Dive to get a spare moment in which to blog, here's Young Dive pretending to sweep the footpath. Cute knees, huh?
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This cute Dive is a dream!"The Little Prince"on Small planet Glass!...... All bloggers are going to fall in love. Me first. May I have a kiss?
What a cutie. Obviously had little experience with snow--bare knees and boots. What a combo. Who'd a thought he'd grow up to write about all the dead snowmen in London.
Mmm, I thought photography wasn't invented until the early nineteenth century...
No, very cute, Dive: and I agree with Anonymous - it really is The Little Prince on what, back then, would almost certainly have been called Small Ass Planet!
I hope no bully kid came along and tried to steal your lunch money. Im sure there are photos of Bonny Prince Charles in similar attire. That photo is priceless. Im guessing you and Charles did NOT attend the same school??? The Prince lost out on that one. Great post Dive.
Anonymous, you are so funny. You are also very secretive; you've not yet revealed whether you are a boy or a girl so I shall have to withhold kisses. Hee hee.
Lupine Lady: we are a hardy northern folk and no boy ever wore long trousers until around five or six years old. Why wear long trousers to keep warm in the snow when we could run around and make mayhem?
Hee hee, Lucio! This was indeed a very early Daguerrotype. Small Ass Planet was a fun place to be.
Mark: We didn't have bully kids, but we didn't have lunch money either; the Nanny State paid for all. As for Chazza, he attended some posh school that didn't allow trailer trash like me in, for which I am eternally grateful.
Hi, Christine: I somehow think that similar attire on fifty-year-old me would not elicit the same response.
Katie: Er … For the transatlantic dictionary: "titty" and "totty" apply only to girls (you yourself are "top totty") and "pollywiggle" means "tadpole" so I'm not sure how to take that. Hee hee.
Cynthia: It seems neither yourself nor Lupine Lady were brought up in England. Over here EVERY boy used to wear short trousers. It allowed us to skin our knees without the need for patching trousers and - as the only way to get warm was to run around and do sporty stuff - it was nice and healthy. And of course "pants" here means "undies" so any boy seen in "long pants" would get hooted out of the playground.
How educational today's post is! Interesting new tips on differences between British and American English. Mental note to myself to remember that pants and trousers are not one and the same.
You're definitely cute in that little outfit. And yes, being cold must build character!
Hi, Kim! Yes, I've been collating a transatlantic dictionary for the past couple of years with my blog neighbours from across the water to help them avoid faux pas when they visit England …
Pants are indeed underwear and are never trousers; Vests are underwear, too and never jackets. Suspenders hold up ladies' stockings, not mens' trousers; the things that hold up trousers are called "braces" which are not to be confused with those awful ugly metal things kids in the US foul their teeth with.
We have great fun with recipes: Courgettes are not zucchini, aubergines are not eggplants, coriander leaf is not cilantro, chickpeas are not garbanzo beans, risotto does NOT have a "d" in it and a cafétière is nothing to do with a French Press (which is some kind of sexual position apparently). I have pages of the stuff and will eventually put it all on a post.
18 comments:
This cute Dive is a dream!"The Little Prince"on Small planet
Glass!......
All bloggers are going to fall in
love. Me first. May I have a kiss?
What a cutie. Obviously had little experience with snow--bare knees and boots. What a combo. Who'd a thought he'd grow up to write about all the dead snowmen in London.
Mmm, I thought photography wasn't invented until the early nineteenth century...
No, very cute, Dive: and I agree with Anonymous - it really is The Little Prince on what, back then, would almost certainly have been called Small Ass Planet!
I'll pass on the kiss, though. (No offense.)
Hope things warm up for you soon, buddy.
I hope no bully kid came along and tried to steal your lunch money. Im sure there are photos of Bonny Prince Charles in similar attire. That photo is priceless. Im guessing you and Charles did NOT attend the same school??? The Prince lost out on that one. Great post Dive.
Dive -what a cute picture of you as a young lad. And the short pants are just the bomb!
Aren't you the titty-totty pollywiggle!
Short pants in the SNOW? Did all little boys that age wear short pants? Was it some rite of passage to graduate to long pants?
Darling picture!
Anonymous, you are so funny.
You are also very secretive; you've not yet revealed whether you are a boy or a girl so I shall have to withhold kisses.
Hee hee.
Lupine Lady: we are a hardy northern folk and no boy ever wore long trousers until around five or six years old.
Why wear long trousers to keep warm in the snow when we could run around and make mayhem?
Hee hee, Lucio! This was indeed a very early Daguerrotype.
Small Ass Planet was a fun place to be.
Mark: We didn't have bully kids, but we didn't have lunch money either; the Nanny State paid for all.
As for Chazza, he attended some posh school that didn't allow trailer trash like me in, for which I am eternally grateful.
Hi, Christine: I somehow think that similar attire on fifty-year-old me would not elicit the same response.
Katie: Er … For the transatlantic dictionary: "titty" and "totty" apply only to girls (you yourself are "top totty") and "pollywiggle" means "tadpole" so I'm not sure how to take that. Hee hee.
Cynthia: It seems neither yourself nor Lupine Lady were brought up in England. Over here EVERY boy used to wear short trousers. It allowed us to skin our knees without the need for patching trousers and - as the only way to get warm was to run around and do sporty stuff - it was nice and healthy.
And of course "pants" here means "undies" so any boy seen in "long pants" would get hooted out of the playground.
How educational today's post is! Interesting new tips on differences between British and American English. Mental note to myself to remember that pants and trousers are not one and the same.
You're definitely cute in that little outfit. And yes, being cold must build character!
Hi, Kim!
Yes, I've been collating a transatlantic dictionary for the past couple of years with my blog neighbours from across the water to help them avoid faux pas when they visit England …
Pants are indeed underwear and are never trousers;
Vests are underwear, too and never jackets.
Suspenders hold up ladies' stockings, not mens' trousers; the things that hold up trousers are called "braces" which are not to be confused with those awful ugly metal things kids in the US foul their teeth with.
We have great fun with recipes:
Courgettes are not zucchini, aubergines are not eggplants, coriander leaf is not cilantro, chickpeas are not garbanzo beans, risotto does NOT have a "d" in it and a cafétière is nothing to do with a French Press (which is some kind of sexual position apparently).
I have pages of the stuff and will eventually put it all on a post.
My goodness. You look like a little prince. I bet your cheeks were all pinkish and that shy look hides a daredevil.
Which cheeks?
So sweet ;)
Aren't I just?
Were you wearing a skirt?
Oh, how incredibly cute. Why weren't you wearing long pants in the snow? those cute knees must have been cold.
No gloves, mittens or hat? What a sturdy and cute little fellow you were.
Hee hee, Joy!
Robyn: We hardy Englishmen don't need long trousers.
Mme: You know what kids are like: mittens are for sissies! Hee hee.
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