Isobel

A faithful-as-possible collation of a 3-14yo’s best utterances, for posterity.

[Isobel @Isobelsays]

Playing Christmas cracker ‘Who Am I’ game. @AlexanderKelly has given increasingly detailed clues but we’re not getting it. On learning that the answer shares a name with a Disney heroine (AK did not know this), IS declares, not unreasonably:
IT’S not obscure, YOU’RE obscure!

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About a careers week form:
“I couldn’t think of the words when it said what are your interests, so I wrote Anarchy”.

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Having parents sucks.

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[After watching the final Troupe show of the summer)
H: you did a move I haven’t seen before on the hoop in your first section.
IS: yes, I learnt it today ahd liked it.
H: ... *eyebrows*

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I’m going to bake.

(Time passes)

Ta-da!

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*H leaves this here without comment.*

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MUUUUUMMMMMY! There's somebody at the door!

*flings the door open*

It's Barbara!

*collapses laughing*

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I have to do my homework on cocaine this weekend.

M: 😶

IS: 😶

M: *stifled giggle*

IS: *giggles*

M: *guffaws*

IS: we were all given different drugs...

M: *hoots*

IS: muMeeee! To RESEARCH over the weekend

M: you're not helping!

IS: *sighs*

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Hello. There's a silence I feel the need to fill!

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We are TWO TURQUOISE TYKES up a TREE

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I walk into a room; Todd jumps and shoots out of it.

I need to jump over him as he's blocking the door to the bathroom; doesn't move a muscle.

*rolls eyes* Cats!

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[Spotted repeatedly folding arms & tilting head, while at the top of a castle]
H: Izzy, what are you doing?
IS: I'm being a gif!

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*side-eyes her mother chair-dancing to Aretha in a restaurant* You’re overdoing it in the embarrassing mother department.

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Me re request to google: OK but don't disappear down the rabbit hole of the Internet. Iz: But it has a strong gravitational pull!

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*on being asked opinion of HF’s new yellow coat* You look like a duck! … In a good way. A Mummy duck! *grins and hugs @hilaryrfoster*

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I’m making up words to my guitar song. It’s called “Away From The Urban Land”. H: 😳 Well hello Joni…

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Actually making pancakes is what you’re second best at. Do you know what you’re best at? [H braces self] Being Mummy! [H goes a bit funny]

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You shouldn’t be General Manager of a theatre company, you should be The Best Pancake Maker in the World!

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*Pulls sucking a lemon face* A: what was that face?! IS: that’s my sour face. I’m making sure it still works.

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Boy at after school club: I HATE discos. *beat* Isobelsays: *incredulous* well I've never heard anyone say THAT before