Swannee Whistle For Breakfast
April 6, 2008 by piereth
Sitting here in my pyjamas watching Brother Bear, and eating toast, drinking coffee, and typing; every 30 seconds or so I get importuned by my youngest to play him a riff on his Swannee Whistle, an infernal musical torture instrument from the Early Learning Centre.
Now the grown-ups have taken over and the game has transmogrified into each of us trying to ‘play’ a popular tune and the other has to guess what it is. We’re 0 for 3 so far! Mouse has retired to his chair with Bobo the squashed hippopotamus and is deep in ursine drama.
Much better to spend Sunday mornings like this than by getting worked up over housework minutiae. I like it!
the demonic agents of badness who created the plastic Swanee Whistle should be strung up.
However, I fully approve of the eating toast and drinking coffee…
There would have been croissants too; but my ass is on the march over the top of my breeks and my stomach’s come out in sympathy also. Need to trim off a few pounds!
I’ve never heard of a Swanee Whistle. Is it like a kazoo?
Didn’t you know that eating chocolate croissants and drinking dark roast coffee doesn’t count if you do it on a Sunday? As a matter of fact, I believe that you actually burn calories if you’re playing songs on a whistle for your little boy.
It’s a recorder type whistle with no holes to make the notes - instead, a slider that you can pull out or push in form the bottom to make the note higher or lower.
Ha! I knew it was true about calories not counting of the food’s a gift!! I shall have to arrange a delivery next Sunday