The Dad who works with a Bunch of Fairies - post 6

Hello again,

I have been waiting for Dan and Kristen to send me the news of the villains that I heard they were chasing.   I haven't heard anything from them so I guess the villains got away?   We still have Mike's Methane Man though - see post 5 of this blog.

So what are we going to do with Methane Man?   Geraldine phoned to say she had seen Mike's Methane Man and she was impressed.   It takes a kid with guts to capture such a bad fellow.   Doug came in with a bit of support for Methane Man, he suggested that there could be good reasons for not showering for donkey's years (we all know Doug doesn't believe in shampooing his own hair and with that in mind we should understand the real reasoning behind the argument here) -  and that methane wasn't necessarily bad per se.   He also defended Methane Man's hat, he remarked it would be quite 'fetching' if worn at a 'jaunty angle'.   Umm, do you remember what Doug wears for everyday work, see picture on the right - gosh, wouldn't we all like to work like that?   But what I want you to notice is the way he dresses?   Doug's idea of day-to-day wear...not smart, would be one way of describing it.   Note the odd socks but at least both are a shade of blue, not the same shade but still - blue.

Anyway although Methane Man is destructive he has not yet stopped all the air traffic over Britain as the erupting volcano in Iceland has done a couple of weeks ago.  If you click on the link there are some amazing pictures.   I discovered that volcanoes don't seem to add too much to the methane in the atmosphere unless they are erupting mud volcanoes or on a planet called Titan.

As much as I'd like to think Methane Man is the villain I have to report that he is NOT the only villain.   In fact I have discovered a whole village of villains.   This is very disturbing because the villains did not know they were villains.  That is a bit like Methane Man - who, incidentally doesn't recognise himself as a villain.  

Now, I don't mean we have a village full of unwashed adults so disgusting that they make the local flys vomit, oh no, it is much more subtle than that.   Like all crimes the clues are right beneath our noses and so obvious it is hard to notice them.  Here are the clues that I found:

1. Mothers hurrying in the morning to get kids to school and get to work themselves.
2. Mothers and Fathers coming home in the evening after a busy day at work and a trip to the supermarket too some days.
3. Children pulling snacks and drinks from the fridge when they came home from school and then leaving the crumbs and left-overs lying around.
4. Parents too busy and too tired to sort  out the recycling properly.

Are you beginning to see the problem yet?

I think the causes of the villains' behaviour are three other little 'villainous inflictions' - known as Ignorance, Apathy and Fatigue.   Most of us have suffered with one or the other at sometime in our lives.   Here is a picture of what I imagine they might look like if you could see them...trouble is we can't and we have to get to know them by how we feel.

Uh-oh...look how dark it is getting, I have to lock up the hens and chicks so foxy can't have them for his dinner.   JP loves to help me, he believes this is one of his most important jobs of the day.

I'll tell you the rest next time, and how Dad manages to put everything right; night-night.