A tale of a fish

A tale of a fish, originally uploaded by Robin Malherbe.

Getting my five-year-old niece to slow down even for a minute is a feat-and-a-half, and so, when I saw her sitting quietly one morning listening intently to her grandpa talking about fishing, I had to just take some pics. Her expressions tell something of the tale she was listening to.

She duly asked if he would take her fishing, so that she could catch a pet fish to take home with her. Off they went later that day on their great adventure. Unfortunately, it was a mostly-unsuccessful expedition because, according to her, "there just weren't any fish left in the sea". If there had been she clearly would have caught one! She also left her grandpa to do most of the fishing as she dug for treasure, collected sea snails to throw into the water and ran rings around him.

P.S. As a matter of interest, my previous post about Rabin Ravi Raj Rabin was the most-read post on my blog by a long way. It seems that people are always up for a good laugh. Second-most-popular, this one about Christmas, and coming in a close third, some funny quotes from my school kids.