They are not chickens!

"They are not chickens!"

I had GrandDaughter2 for the day yesterday and we were engaged in discussion about my earrings. 

"They're robins!" I insisted.

She was equally insistent that they were chickens.

"What would I be doing wearing chickens dangling from my ears? And anyway chickens don't have red breasts."
"Neither do your earrings!"

"What?" I took one out and looked at it. She was right: they didn't have red breasts and did look like chickens.

Did they have red breasts once upon a time? Who knows. Certainly not me.

We also had a big disagreement about the past tense of write.

She'd made a lovely card for her granddad and she pointed to it yesterday and said, "I writ that."

"Yes, you did, you wrote it."

When they make a mistake in their grammar I usually try to say the sentence back to them using the correct words so they pick it up rather than correcting them, but this time she paused and said again, "I writ it."

"Yes, you wrote it."

She looked puzzled and then began the grand argument that involved me, Granddad, Alexa, and her mummy when she arrived. 

"Alexa, what's the past tense of write?"

"The past tense of write is wrote (aha, see) or writ (what?!)"

Granddad didn't help by quoting, "The moving finger writes and having writ moves on." Alexa did agree that writ was archaic but that meant nothing to GrandDaughter2 who danced around insisting she was right. "My teacher says writ."

"Alexa isn't always right, and not all teachers have good grammar," Daughter tried pointing out, but to no avail.

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This morning Husband introduced me to a website dedicated to the chairs in Doctor Who. It turns out that we have a chair very similar to the one used in Doctor Who season 16. Ours is made by Jack Grimble and this is what the website has to say:

Elsewhere in the prison, there is a ‘Jack Grimble’ chair, probably dating from the 1940’s. Jack Grimble of Cromer, worked on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, and developed his style after careful study of medieval English furniture techniques, construction and materials.

So from this we can conclude that we quite possibly have a chair very similar to one in Sandringham that may even have been sat upon by a royal bottom.