Baby Bea modestly sees herself as an inspiration and muse for those around her. She likes to think that she inspires amongst her family and ever-widening group of friends not only deep artistic and creative thoughts and deeds, but also a contemplation on wider socio-political issues. Indeed she notes that she is able to arouse deep feelings in the bosom of her own mother, from utter joy to total despair and all the emotions in between......normally in the space of only a few minutes (generally enough time for me to fill a nappy).
Baby Bea is also proud to note that she has been able to imbue in her Grandmothers a passion for a higher learning. In this case to teach each other their mother tongues. They chose for this task that classic of the linguistic genre, 'Elmer's friends', (otherwise known as 'Gli amici di Elmer') an epic work of fraternity, intertwined destinies and the mystery of identity all contained within its eight, card-backed, brightly coloured pages.
As you can see by these photos they delighted in the joys of learning, it was an experience beautiful to behold and not at all like, what Daddy rather cruelly remarked later, "the blind leading the bloody blind".
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