March 2011

March 30, 2011: Overheard at the Hyde House II

My mom's father's sister's son's daughter, who is eleven, is staying with us.

She was paging through my sketchbooks, naming the subject of each drawing, while I stared at the wall, thinking up ways to fill in a plot hole.

Relative: Horse, horse standing on its back legs, thingy that doesn't make sense, horse turning a somersault, horse with a horn and wings, dog riding on horse, sort of fish dog unicorn thingy, thingy that doesn't make sense, mer-horse-unicorn thingy, flying lizard dragon horse thingy....

Silence.

Relative: You had a warped mind, do you know that?

Me: Had?

Relative: Until you lost it.

March 28, 2011: Overheard at the Hyde House

Father: Dinki, have you got the saddlery's email address?

Mother: Yes.

Father: Firn, email the saddlery. Dinki, what do they know you as?

Mother: Alice in Wonderland.