Meet Luca, the son of close friends of ours.

He can’t yet quite get the word ‘Melanie’ out, so he cheerfully calls me ‘Lemony’ instead. The rest of us find this funny, which only encourages him.

Last weekend I was up in Scotland staying at Luca’s place, and when I left he went into the room I’d been staying in, just to get it ready for the next guests (Luca LOVES to tidy up, and even has his own Hoover). When he discovered I’d left my knitting bag behind, he ran out of the room saying, ‘Maman, there’s a big problem. Lemony left her bag, we should probably Skype her.’

I love this. He can’t say Melanie, but he already knows how to Hoover and Skype, two skills I continue to come relentlessly at the bottom of the class in.

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  1. I love that he calls you Lemony!

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    • Me too, actually. I was secretly thrilled when everyone else started doing it as well, since now he hasn’t even got a fighting chance of noticing the problem. At this rate it could take him years!

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