Does anyboyd else's child have odd habits?

[moved]

Now we're onto Monty Python does anyone remember the 1980s radio 2 sketch about a radio crew and the phrase "loo brush"?

I had a weird boyfriend who could quote all of Monty Python, The Young Ones and this radio 2 series. I have just tried googling and failed to find the name. Please help, otherwise I will be deprived of sleep.

Regarding odd habits: does anyone else need to sort the washing on the line by the colour of the pegs available?

[inkypinkyponky]

Regarding odd habits: does anyone else need to sort the washing on the line by the colour of the pegs available?

Erm.....no........should I?

Does the washing dry better?

[moved]

No, but the lego wasn't easier to play with when sorted by size or colour either.

I have worked hard as a non-male member of the species to be "normal". But pegs still elude me

[mike1880]

My DS dislikes certain words. He says that he doesn't like the sound of them. It's not that he doesn't like the meaning of the word - he doesn't like the sound of the word. Words include: 'tender', 'squash' or 'jelly'. Once at dinner I said "oooh, try your meat, it's really tender", and he shivered and said "ewww don't say that word" and had to get up and get a drink.

What's all that about then?

This reminds me of an old Python sketch. "Antelope. Horrible, tinny sort of word"

It sounds as though he's got a mild form of some sort of synaesthesia - i.e. certain words or sounds trigger another stimulus like taste or vision (probably taste in his case). I used to "see" words as colours but grew out of it, he may do the same.

Mike

[Snowdrops]

Regarding odd habits: does anyone else need to sort the washing on the line by the colour of the pegs available?

errr, yes

[Midget Man]

Nope, but it's very funny and very odd

[chicko-mum]

Regarding odd habits: does anyone else need to sort the washing on the line by the colour of the pegs available?

errr, yes

removed that particular frustration by replacing mine with pegs of same colour...

[Snowdrops]

That's too easy, Chicko-Mum, Moved and I like to live dangerously

[moved]

I've often been tempted by the simplicity of monochrome pegs, but I somehow feel that is cheating. I had wonderful pegs once, different colours on each side, enabling more opportunities for matching.

[Amber]

We spent a year travelling and I took pegs with me. I then developed a habit of taking a peg from everywhere we stayed (we rented houses) and swapping it for one of mine. So now I have around a dozen pegs which weren't actually mine to start with and which remind me of the places I hung out washing. And all around western Europe and Scandinavia are odd wooden pegs of mine. Do you think I am the only person ever to have done this? Perhaps I should write a book - A Tour of Europe in Pegs.