Long before Downton Abbey, there was a television serial called Upstairs ,Downstairs. Both were highly popular British television series. Downton Abbey was set in the countryside while Upstairs, Downstairs was set in London. Both were about aristocratic families and their servants.

In our context, however, Ms. Papaya thinks that the neighbours upstairs, the Aptes are called  Uptés. After all, they live Upstairs. We are the Middletés. And the neighbours downstairs are the  Downtés while the people on the lower floors, the Notés.

What do you say to such logic?

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I’m participating in the AtoZ2020 Challenge, a month-long blog hop where participants post 26 posts, one for every Alphabet, every day except Sundays.

Do join me as I share my adventures with my Little People.

When we were growing up, a watch or clock made a sound that went Tick-Tock. And as babies, we were told that all watches went tick-tock.

However, modern watches do not go tick-tock, and yet we call them tick-tocks.

Hubby Dear who loves collecting watches realised that he had to keep his watches wound all the time so that the mechanism was kept in good shape.

One day, I found Wow Dinga walking about the house,  shaking both his hands. I was wondering what kind of a new game he had invented and asked him what on earth he was doing.

I was amazed and bewildered when he said, “Tick-tock, Abu do.”

Tick-tock Abu do?
What did Abu do to bring forth such a mysterious comment?

I then realised that he was indeed copying his grandfather who wore his automatic watches over the weekend ( one on each wrist) and wound them by shaking his wrists.

That’s when I  realised that he could not wear more than one watch at a time and needed a  watchwinder.

I hope you are enjoying these little vignettes from my life with the Little People.

Ciao

I’m participating in the AtoZ2020 Challenge, a month-long blog hop where participants post 26 posts, one for every Alphabet, every day except Sundays.

Do join me as I share my adventures with my Little People.