Naked Women 29.02.08

I haven't seen much of Robbie this week. On Thursday evening he went to Imogen's parents evening, his appointment was at 6.50pm but it was 10pm before he got home and he was very tired. He talked about looking through her exercise books and he commented on one entry that didn't seem to ring true. It reminded me when Sam was younger, he wrote in his school diary that his dad had taken him to see naked women at the theatre. We were mortified and could not understand why he would make up something like that. After close questioning it turned out that he was describing the painting of cherubs on the fire curtain when he went to see Postman Pat on stage!!

Robbie is always keen to stress that he is not a train spotter - he just happens to carry around a special notebook to note down train numbers! In order to prove how 'normal' he is he takes every opportunity to tell me about people with stranger obsessions than his own. In the past he has told me about a roundabout spotter, an escalator spotter and last night he told me in detail about a man who is a franking machine spotter. This does not make Robbie seem more normal, it just proves that he has some very odd acquaintances!