Whenever my father comes to town it’s a party.
We sortie for ice cream, we skip school ‘cuz if you can’t skip school now when can you skip? take in the Royal Winter Fair, we visit elderly relatives, we have a lot of fun.
And there’s always something new to learn. Usually a song — some long-ago reminiscence that comes to his mind and which is utterly obscure to anyone born after, say, 1955.
Have I Told You Lately that I Love You
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
Abadaba Honeymoon
This time, it’s homemade bubble-blowing solution.
Nicholas and Dad bought, weighed, measured and poured according to Recipe No. 1 (I learned there are three more recipes to come) and set out on the front steps to see how big the bubbles could be.
Pretty big, as it turns out.
Ingredients are fairly straightforward — water, dish soap and glycerine — but no doubt proportions are key.
As we work out way through the various recipes I’ll let you know which was deemed best.
But in the meantime:
Bubble Blowing Recipe No. 1
600 g water
200 g dish washing liquid
100 g glycerine (available at drugstore)
Mix and blow!
The Country Mice 
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