Sunday, February 04, 2007
I have already blogged once today, but it was disastrous
It is sunday afternoon. Lunchtime cheese on toast, sunlit living room, Mike in his bike clothes making tea."Oh oh oh," I say. The chimpanzees on TV are roaming. They're so fuzzy.
"I would love to give one a cuddle," I say. "I think they'd cuddle back, too".
"They would," Mike says.
The chimps walk in a long line, one after the other, winding through the jungle.
"God they're so human," I say, as one hands one an apple*. "And I love their faces. Oh and look at that one's eyes, they're sooo big..."
"You can see their bollocks," Mike says. I'm shocked.
"Dad!"
"Er?" Mike says. I am horribly embarrassed. And probably have a father-complex.
"Sorry," I say. "It's just. Well, it's just the kind of thing he'd say."
*Okay, it was actually the carcas of a rival baby chimp they killed, but whatever. I'll go with apple.
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