Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting…

The school holidays are over and everyone in the family has stopped vomiting. Good news all round. You might think only one of those was great news but somehow my kids are the kind who spend the holidays saying wistfully “I can’t wait to go back to school. Holidays are boooooring”. Odd. They did not get that from me. I try not to take it personally.

We went back to see Kung Fu Panda 4 for the oldest child who’d missed out the first time (see: vomiting) and everyone enjoyed it. Including me because this time I understood that there was a second panda who was the father of the Kung Fu Panda who in completely different scenes and this was not just a massive continuity on the part of the filmmakers who had missed that the Kung Fu Panda was (a) travelling with a wily fox and (b) in a completely different place, travelling with an irritable goose. This was not explained in the story. As far as I knew. Although first time we saw Kung Fu Panda 4, I had my eyes closed for a good while so I may have missed the subtle clues. Also, I’ve never seen Kung Fu Pandas 1, 2 or 3 so that put me at a disadvantage. But I feel very much up to speed now so that’s a relief and will no doubt come in handy one day.

Eventually there’s going to be a time when no one wants me to take to take them to see any kind of Kung Fu Panda. That’s going to be a sad day so I’m making the most of it while I can even if it means seeing the same movie over and over until every kid has seen it. That’s part of the fun. It was a good school holidays (apart from all the vomiting) and now the days are quiet again and I can do some writing, and that’s pretty good too.