Sunday 26th August 2007

I peed in the bin yesterday but I told mummy it was OK because I washed my hands afterwards.

Today we went to (neighbour) Fernanda's as (her husband, mechanic) Louis has the au pair car in for repairs, so mummy wanted to briefly talk to him about what needed to be done. I left the house before mummy, got into her car and started the engine. That'll teach mum for leaving the keys in the ignition. Unfortunately she ran out and grabbed the keys before I started driving anywhere - it could have been even more fun.

This morning we visited the stone age village of Gletterens, where we cooked bread on a stick over a fire. Our bread got burnt because I ran away and mum had to prop the bread sticks on a stone while she ran after me, and they were too near the fire.

Archaologists in bear skins were demonstrating how people lived at the time. They came back from the hunt with a wild bore - split down the middle, its legs tied to carrying poles. I asked mummy lots of questions all day about what the pig was like, how fast they had to run to catch it and whether they were out of breath, whether children could catch wild bores and whether it had been a naughty pig and what happened to it when it died!

She told me it had been rampaging through the crops and had eaten all the farmer's wheat and anyway, the stone age men needed something to eat and they would put every bit of that bore's body to good use. I accepted this. Even after watching them peel the creature's skin off with stone age tools I still wanted a bit for lunch!

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