Supersize Me?
Some Mummy-Daughter bonding seemed in order today so we toddled off to the cinema for Shrek the Third 
Now, obviously, part of the whole cinema experience is the popcorn and I’m rather partial to it myself so we agreed that I’d buy us both a drink adn we would share a "regular" sized box of popcorn. Now last time I went to the cinema (a different one to be fair) the regular sized popcorn came in a box about the size of a pint pot. It was sufficient for 2 people to graze throughout the film, the drink came in a cup the size of the ones you get at McD’s and, again, was more than sufficient. Things have changed since then….
The Phrase "Supersize me" would not be inappropriate. The drink was just under 2 pints and the popcorn could hvae fed a family of 4 with left overs. I took a picture of hte containers to make my point but I’m being completely unsucessful at uploading it so you’ll just have to believe me on this one! It was just ridiculous and made getting up the stairs to our seats ***** difficult. Ah well. Next time I’ll ask for children’s portions!
The film, incidentally, was great. Very funny and lots of jokes sailing right over her head but made me giggle quietly. She wants to go again with Daddy!
After that we wandered round the shops a bit and fell into the toy shop. I braced myself for the "I wants" but you know what she wanted? A hula hoop. Nothing more than that. I felt I could oblige that one! She has now mastered the art of skipping with it and can hula it for about 5 microseconds which is about 4 more than I can do!
That brought lunchtime so we decided to indulge…. Old Orleans! She had a smoothie made fresh for her which put her into a dream-like state 
and a very good meal then helped me polish off my pud which was a confection of strawberry icecream (with real bits in it!), fresh fruit, Maltesers, marshmallows, brownie and chili chocolate sauce. I didn’t think she’d like the sauce but she did so I let her share!
She played in the back garden til it got dark this evening with her new hula hoop - I think she would have taken it to bed with her given the chance!
