Bros før Hoes

Darwin got invited to 2 parties at the weekend. One was with Izaac, the boy who he goes swimming with and other was Alida, a girl who I’ve mentioned before in this blog. Izaac’s party was being conveniently held in the local village hall and many of his other school friends were going. Alida’s party involved a 130 mile round trip to Accrington and we weren’t sure if there would be any kids there at all other than Alida.

We decided we would leave it up to Darwin to decide which party he wanted to attend but in the mean time I would try and convince him that Izaac’s party would be the most fun. ‘Bro’s before hoe’s’, I told him, but it fell on deaf ears. Every time we asked him “Which party do you want to go to” he replied, “Alida’s”.

We like the Hoff’s (Alida’s Norwegian family) and when we turned up the Nord’s were in the majority this time. His mother (who we’ve met before), her husband, Alida’s cousin and a fella who I think was called Olaf were all there with one other non-Nord. There weren’t many kids, and none from Sedbergh, but to be honest I think both Darwin and us preferred it that way.

We chatted intelligently with the Nords at the dinner table and I tried Akvavit for the first time, it wasn’t too bad considering it’s used to strip all the fats from your tongue in preparation for different meal courses.

"Darwin & Alida"