celebrity

It is Mr McMuffin's birthday tomorrow and we had thought of going away for the weekend. I say thought about it, because as we both considered the planning and preparation involved, we lost all will to go away. As usual, we decided to go into town and wander around and as usual got sucked into the Borough market and Tate Modern trap. Anyway, we had a nice day and ate the best scallops I have ever tasted, from a little stall in the market.

Babycake was in his element, lots to do and see and lots of people to do it with. He draws attention from so many people, I began to find it all a little overwhelming. Mr McMuffin is used to this and took it in his stride, but I could only gape at the goodwill this little lad generates. Within the space of fifteen minutes he had been tickled under the chin by a man taking a stroll with his wife, told he was 'very cute and beautiful' by a precocious French teenager in the lifts at the Tate and in the cities exhibition had his photograph taken by a Korean photographer who also signed a photo of the boy as a gift from one celebrity to another.

Now, I think the boy is quite cute and adorable, but that is normal. I can't quite see how other people are so taken by him and this doesn't seem quite normal to me. Mr McMuffin thinks it's the boy's 'Manga eyes' that do it (if you recall in Paris, little Babycake gained three Japanese fans, young men in their twenties who took umpteen photographs posing with him) and this may be part of it, but he does have something other than cuteness, possibly baby charisma and I hope he retains this when the cuteness goes.