Every year we celebrate Halloween, Easter, Christmas, Guy Fawkes and … Roald Dahl day on 13th September. The kids are Dahl fans, and so am I.
I thought you might like to know the five things we devotedly do:
1. Cook squiggly spaghetti, as instructed in The Twits. Then the kids cry out, ‘Look! My spaghetti is moving!’ pointing to the imaginary worms before gobbling it all much more eagerly than any other tea. There’s even a new edition of our standard family cookbook just come out - Roald Dahl's Completely Revolting Recipes: A Collection of Delumptious Favourites – so we can concoct more inedible dishes. You can eat some of these in the café at the Roald Dahl Museum.
2. Learn a new poem from Dirty Beasts. As I was having my first baby, my partner sat beside me and read out, ‘No animal is half as vile, as Crocky-Wock, the crocodile…’ while I pushed. screamed and blasphemed. I found it comforting. Perhaps that’s why my first born, now a teenager, still finds the sound of, ‘The meat I am about to chew, Is neither steak nor chops. IT'S YOU,’ strangely soothing.
3. Have a home movie night, including popcorn and normally forbidden fizzy drinks, while watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
4. Promise to catch the Everything You Wanted to Know About Roald Dahl roadshow when it comes by us, and think up some especially fiendish questions.
5. Pretend to be Bruce Bogtrotter, and eat far too much chocolate cake.
We’re looking forward to next September.
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