With thanks to: Erwin Van Den Eshof, Hans Somers, Bob Wilbers

My 5-year-old cousin, is she already watching ‘Hunter Street’ the TV show?

But for a little child who is only 5 years old, the story is complex, sophisticated, and it can be difficult to follow for a girl who is so young. I doubt that the Chinese kids who are 11 years old can follow the ‘Hunter Street’ story so well. I mean no offence but I suspect most Chinese kids who are 10 years old haven’t got a clue what is happening in Hunter Street, half of the time.
It is really quite complicated, but so much inspirational fun!

Let’s have the Dutch ‘Hunter Street’ for Czech quarantine productivity

Hello, all. I sent the following email to my Czech friend in Prague who is a parent. I’ve decided to share it:

I’m sorry to hear that the kids’ quarantine thing is ‘quite annoying’ for you. Hmmmmmm I cannot imagine how annoyed I would be, in Prague, if I were a mum in this situation. In the chaotic afternoons, are you going to get your kids to watch Hunter Street by Nickelodeon? But they key question is, HOW can you get Hunter Street?

Please do not waste time on playing Roblox for six hours straight.I have nothing against Roblox, but I have something against playing a video game for six hours straight. It is just excessive. I love Hunter Street.What’s so good about playing Roblox for six hours straight? What is that going to teach your children? Playing Roblox for six hours straight is NOT going to teach your children to help you. It is NOT going to teach your children to help you wash the dishes, it is NOT going to teach your children to clean the dirty car for you, it is NOT going to teach your children to help you wash the dirty clothes, to dry the dirty clothes, and so on. If you think about it – you are a clean person, they cause most of the mess, and you are constantly battling against this backlog – bits of bird food on the floor, attracting the silverfish at night, and those pests EAT YOUR SOCKS. Then, your clothes have HOLES THROUGH THEM. Give it a try. Get them to watch season 1 episode 1 of Hunter Street. Then, it goes on.

The children’s step-parents got into serious trouble as they got kidnapped, basically. And the children, who are step brothers and sisters, do their best to help their parents. The producers have carefully presented the story so that the viewer understands that the parents got kidnapped, but it’s not going to scare a child really too much. There’s even a part, in the Hunter Street TV show, when the children work hard to clean the house, before that social worker comes – so, the sister cleans the toilet, the brother scrubs the dirty floor… … … …What would your own children do for you? At least wash the dirty pot for you? At least take the clothes out of the washing machine then dry them ? ? ? ? Are they going to do ANYTHING at all? It is a really brilliant TV show, just perfect for a child who is 10. And I really enjoy it. You should give it a try! ! !! ! !!! ! ! ! !!!!!!!!! !!!!! If your girl is not going to do such a big job for you – COOK YOUR SPAGHETTI FOR YOU, FOR YOUR DINNER, at least she can do something very small, like toss the trash into the trash bin! ! ! I think it is a very big job, to cook spaghetti for dinner, certainly for a girl who is only ten years old!

I was looking for a carrot… I got a helicopter.

Oh! Parts of the beginning of chapter 12 of “New Jerusalem News” by John Enright is “absolutely fascinating”? How so? Explain! ! !
I didn’t know what that food was – what they are talking about. So I had to look up images in some kind of an encyclopedia.

Don’t get me wrong. I love bivalves in general. To eat them, not to use them for decoration. Scallops… … my friends fed stir-fries of scallops with pods of peas to me in Hong Kong. Delicious. Oysters and clams are ok. Mussels are ok.
I had no idea that the book existed. I went onto google. I wrote: “relative culinary merits of…” so, for example, if anyone wanted to compare roast beef with roast lamb; if anyone wanted to compare this pie with that pie; if anyone wanted to compare broccoli to leek; if anyone wanted to compare Lancashire hotpot with Irish hotpot; if anyone wanted to compare a watermelon with a banana; if anyone wanted to compare gravy with cranberry sauce; but I didn’t find Lancashire hotpot with carrots, meat, and potatoes. I found a helicopter.
Would you rather get a carrot, or a helicopter? In the TV show “Hunter Street”, the adopted daughter Anika even said that Argentina was the same thing as Antartica, which I found really hilarious. She’s so cute. Especially when she was f**king around at the local library, pretending that she was totally clueless about the fact that the method of getting from the ground floor of the library to the third floor of the library was to walk upstairs to get to the third floor. I love her nonsense. She is very lovely and pretty too. Well, if you follow Anika’s principle, then a carrot is the same thing as a helicopter. Hilarious.