They just had to stay there, humped under the blankets- which were suddenly dreadfully hot and scratchy- and their noses felt dreadfully stuffy and they had pains in their pinnies and weren't at all sure that they really going to be sick. Thus when the children decide that they won't get up from bed and will pretend they have the measles they are promptly given real measles and find they cannot get out of bed however much they want to. Her methods are unorthodox but effective: When her charges are misbehaving she simply slams down her big black stick and terrible consequences ensue until the lesson is learn't. They're marvellous and very very funny concerning an impossibly large family of impossibly naughty children who must be brought to order by the intervention of a seemingly impossibly ugly and impossibly strict Nurse. Return to source if you don't know the original books. I need to enlist 'Nurse Matilda' Christianna Brand's magical nanny of 1964, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, and reincarnated in movie form not so long ago by Emma Thompson as 'Nanny McPhee'.
I found myself slowly closing my eyes and drifting off on his pillow as he worked his way through an animated rendition of the puzzle instructions in his Marvel Superhero Annual 2011. He will NOT be read to and will only read TO me. I have just abandoned the attempt to read him soothing stories in his bed. Poor Bill.Įddie is often on strikingly good form when mildly feverish, talking nonsense nineteen to the dozen like the best sort of drunk. Much to the disgust of his big brother who is ALWAYS in rude health and NEVER gets a day off school harumph garumph. I have a small and slightly feverish boy at home today.
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