B14:- Theres a candy shop in town
D4:- Whats a candy shop?
B14:- Its very English
D4:- What the heck is English???
upon further reflection from me I will have tell D14 its more likely an America thing actually :)
Correct if Im wrong cousin Meg wouldnt you call lollies/candy etc sweets???
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D4:- When B14 goes to heaven Ill get his cat
Me:- Yes D4 (we have talked about this before and it was the middle of the night)
after a moments pause
D4:- Mum, when you go to heaven youll have to tell me where the lollies are before you leave. Then when I sleep in my bed all night I can have one.
(D4 gets a lolly in the morning if hes slept in his own bed all night long. I wonder in fact whether they would last that long? LOL)
Me:- (smiling) ok
We have talked about the fact that God willing the chance of any of us going to heaven any time soon is remote. B14 told D4 yesterday thats its more likely that when he goes to America when hes older that hell have to look after his cat for him then
7 comments:
out of the mouth of babes! Precious! Rachaelxo
A candy shop/store is an Americanism. Here we would talk about a SWEET SHOP. We tend to only use the word "candy" when talking about candy floss - that lovely fluffy, usually pink, stuff on a stick which goes to nothing in your mouth and which Mum would not let me buy on the rare occasions we visited a fun fair - she said it left one all sticky and was not worth the money!!! I had to wait till I was grown up to try it!
What a clever little boy D4 is - I bet he was thinking: "If I can con Mum into telling me where those lollies are, I can sneak out of my bed at night and get one!!"
Candy's American. :D
Cute conversation. LOL
awwww how sweet! yes candy is American, I think we say lollies or chocolate here.
Further to my previous comment, if the shop sold rather expensive products and specialised in one item such as chocolate, it might call itself a CONFECTIONER'S SHOP. I guess a child, though would still refer to it as a sweet shop, even if it could not afford the products!
Meg while I know what candy floss is I had to think hard to know if Id ever brought it on a sticj here in new Zealand they generally sell it in a plastic bag
LOL you may be right about D4 wanting to know where those lollies are. He is a trier when it comes to those lollies :) :)
thanks for your comments friends :)
Today one can still get it on sticks at the seaside but one can also get it in big plastic bags, too. Remember I'm ancient!LOL When I was growing up there were no plastic bags, only paper ones and they would not have been much use for candy floss!!!
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