Tallulah went to her second meeting of Rainbows this evening.
She loves it.
This is very, very good.
She has been on the waiting list for a year and a half and things were getting tense and excitable. A lot was riding on Rainbows being brilliant. Particularly because she has to have something that is hers and not Tilly’s and that is better than best. Tilly never went to Rainbows. Before I moved to Glenfield I was not one of the joining in type mothers. I’m still not really, but I try more now.
Anyway. All was well and all manner of things were well.
We have a hot date to go and buy uniform for next week when probation time is over and subs are due. This will duly be done, shortly after which she will develop an allergic reaction to Rainbows and want to join the junior fascist league or something.
Bah!
Oscar is also very excited about rainbows. He has been watching a lot of The Wizard of Oz with Tallulah recently. It is one of her new ‘things’ that she is mad about. I wonder whether Oscar thinks Tallulah is going to Oz when she bravely steps out into the night air.
Anyhow. He wanted to know why he was not allowed to go to Rainbows with ‘Tula’. I explained that Rainbows is just for girls, and tha when he is bigger he can go to Beavers. He got very, very excited about this and has run about telling everyone that ‘My Oscar is going to Divas’.
I think this is wonderful. It delights my heart to think of him going to Divas. I have half a mind to set up a group myself.
It will be like Brownies. Each group of six children will have a name, but rather than Elves and Sprites they will be Mariah and Whitney and Jenny from the Block. Subs will be paid by Platinum credit card only. Uniforms will be elaborate and change in the Spring and Autumn. All hats will be from Philip Treacey.
They will learn useful things like:
- Never carrying cash so that one doesn’t have to worry about being mugged.
- Demands and how to make them (basic Rider format included in handbook)
- How to fit your entourage into a Lear jet without treading on someone’s heels.
- Tantrums and when to have them.
- Basic diamond care.
- Sashaying
- Partaying
- Demanding
- Care of small pets that fit into handbags
- Petulance
- Air kissing for beginners
It will be fabulous. I may write to Paris Hilton and get her to come up with a logo and some badge designs.
I was made to teach this….
That’s very true. You can have the job.
Diamonds for beginners. Can I join too?
HOp on over to mine if you have a moment as there is an award for you!
I like!!
Welshgirl
You can join too. You can be sixer of the Jenny on the Blocks.
Justme
Good eh?
DIVAS!!!!! F*cking brilliant!!!! And so sweet. Queenie must join too, obviously. Back in the day, were Rainbows called Rosebuds? I used to help out at Beavers when I was in the 6th form. Jesus wept, it gave me such a good insight into the reality of parenthood and parties…
Rainbows may well have been called Rosebuds, I’m not sure. I hated being in Brownies and refused to be press ganged into guides, so it’s all a bit of a mystery to me.
I am so impressed that you were a community minded sixth former. I spent most of my time nicking the swings in the park off small children and eating toasted tea cakes.