Day 156: Branded for life

E5N1 is doing well as you can hopefully tell. His greatest excitements in life (apart from food) are Exile #3 who consistently gets the best smiles and the light-fittings in the family room that come in a close second - although maybe they should be covered by the food-exclusion due to their mammiform nature.

Exile #2 has been thinking that the girls need some summer footwear and was considering some lightweight plastic clogs when Exile #3 wandered over to look over her shoulder at the webpage she was browsing "Ooo - 'Crocs'!" she said, correctly identifying them. Exile #2 was quite shocked, "How do you know that?", "Oh, [names of two school-friends] have them!" So the peer-pressure to start buying particular brands starts here. I'm sure that she is just at the age of starting to be aware of such things but it is impossible not to wonder what effect our continent-shift has had.

When we arrived Exile #3 could already (I'm afraid) recognise the famous golden arches of a particular fast-food chain. However, she gave it an altogether more wholesome air by referring to it as "Old MacDonald's". Food fresh from the farm presumably. E-I-E-I-O.