How lovely! Ed Milliband leader of the the opposition has said that 2011 will be a year of Consequences. What a truly lovely idea. Consequences was one of our favourite nursery games as children. I remember being taught to play by my splendid Aunt Edina. We spent many happy hours sitting on the rug in front of the nursery fire, each of the four of us writing - in great secret of course - our carefully chosen sentence to progress the story before diligently folding the paper over and running our whole hand across the fold to make it sharp and prevent it accidently falling open, before passing it on to the next person.
The giggles that we had when we discovered that 'a little girl called Susan', 'hiked up Mount Everest', 'dressed in turkey feathers and hot pants', 'to buy raspberry jam from a French monkey called Marcel'. Sometimes they would get rude of course, and frequent mention was made of knickers and lavatories and kissing, but that was Aunt Edina for you!
Anyway it is nice to know that even the sons of Jewish, Marxist, Liberal, Intellectuals played the same nursery games and, more importantly value them.
Now, I'm off to the Nursery wing make sure that the Nanny is introducing Jemima and Tarquin to our heritage in the form of traditional games, rhymes, sayings and routines.
