One of the pickney dem is leaving

Mellow Ginger Cake may be leaving home. He has announced that he is going to Germany in May to try out for a Champion's League Football Team. If he is successfull this could mean him taking a break from University and settling in Germany. Of course I am very pleased for him as this all goes to my master plan of a pickney free environment, but I'm now worrying about how he will cope in a country where he doesn't speak the language and given the fact that he appears often to be in a world of his own.

Mellow Ginger Cake as I have mentioned in the past is very laid back to the point of the need to prod him on occassions to ensure he is still with us. At times I have worried that although he is the oldest, he would still be mellowing on the sofa at the age of fourty because he couldn't get the energy to leave. However, over the past few weeks (although it has probably been months but i have failed to notice) he has become very independant to the point that I have just noticed that he actually doesn't spend a lot of time "At home with the Ginger Cakes".

Bashment Ginger Cake appears unbothered by Mellow Ginger Cakes announcement and is busy planning her own "escape" in the summer to Camp America and failing that to University next year.

Demanding Ginger Cake has adopted a tone of "My life is so boring/sad/worthless", and I think, tricked me into allowing him to have more time partying and socialising by appearing depressed and lamenting his lack of friends and social life. After some thought I realised this was ploy on his part to get me to lighten up and give him more freedom by making me feel sorry for him. I nearly fell for it as well untill I realised that his life was far from boring and fuller than Mellow Ginger Cake, Bashment Ginger Cake and mine put together.

I think he may be as cunning as me!!