Larger Than Life

The wee and I enjoy our trips to the shops, Aye even the food shopping for our weekly household supplies is seen as an adventure worth going on by the wee one, even if I sometimes feel it is a mission impossible!
The wee one and I took off today with a number of visits to be made down the rolling metropolis that is our town, we had bills to pay, people to meet and of course our groceries to buy.
The town had a wee buzz about it, and it was busier than usual, a scenario that was being commented on by all we met.

The schools are of course yet again on another Holiday, is it just me being old and grumpy but don't the schools seem to have more days off now than they are open! So with the schools off that would explain the town being busier but not the buzz, which I have to say was not unlike that feeling you get at Christmas time when you are doing your shopping and as if to exaggerate the point it started to snow!!

Could it be that the Easter is becoming the Spring time Christmas, have the retailers duped us yet again into parting with our pennies, as I have to say, not only were Easter eggs the order of the day and they are not cheap, but peoples trollies were full of what I consider to be traditional Christmas food!!!! Its all a far cry from rolling your hard boiled painted egg down a hill before munching it delighting in what a treat it was. Any way I digress as granddads do! So back to the subject in hand.
The wee one is very perceptive, and she had judged for herself that people seemed a lot happier than normal, the reaction to this was a wee one skipping and dancing her way through the town, sometimes a pace ahead of me but when taking a bow she was several paces behind me.
Now as I said the last time it was like this was Christmas, we had been down the town doing our surprise shopping for her granny when the wee one came face to face with a man with a big beard and a red suit, her reaction to this experience was one of terror that took several days of convincing that he was in fact one of life's good guys.

So cue a massive bunny rabbit the size of her granddad making its way towards her carrying a basket of eggs that are being handed out to the other wee people on the street, the wee one in mid dance froze like a statue before swivelling around and taking off for the hills shouting no way as she took off!
For us it is hard to imagine exactly what was going through her head, however on reflection I wonder how we would react if the household cat went out to the garden and returned as a tiger!, because that is the size scale we are talking about in her world, it was only last week she was crouching down gazing at a real bunny after all.

The job in hand now is to convince the wee one, that like the big fat man with the beard and red suit, the over large bunny is also one of life's good guys, which we all know is true but how will the wee one react when I start to warn her to be careful of strangers, talk about a confusing world!
So I hope you all have a safe and happy Easter with no frightening fairy tale characters appearing out of the blue, and that any wee ones in the family have a chocolaty fun time.

AND FINALLY
I will not be writing over the Easter Holiday weekend but will return on the 2nd of April, however a student reporter will be posting an extract of an interview with me that they were doing as part of their course work on this site instead, this will be in the form of life questions and answers, we hope that you enjoy this as a wee change to the norm.