Readings in the build-up to Christmas isn’t something new. The web is full of daily readings for advent, pitched at a whole range of different ages and stages. What does it mean to share a book – or a series of stories – over nearly a month? === Christmas Past I don’t remember regular reading …
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A Christmas Carol: advent calendars
This is the point I love: when a series of blog posts starts to shift away from the original idea, into something a little different. Start that on day 2? Sure, why not. You can read the starting point of the theme here. My original thought was to split the posts into a good number …
X is for x-rated
Because, after all, how many xylophones do you find crossing your path, begging to be your latest found item? It just doesn’t happen that way. And neither, really, do prompts beginning with x – you may have to go looking for them. Or inventing them. Turns out inventing is just fine, when it comes to …
12 Oct: a room in your childhood home
Which home? Which room? There’ve been a few. I think I need to describe my own room – that’s probably easiest to remember, and remember how I felt there too. We moved, you see. We moved quite a bit. Only in the UK, mind, but always long distance, enough that we were starting afresh each …
Interlude one: how much does an item need to be found?
Starting in on the topic of found items, it seems easy. When they drift across your path, that is. When small people come up and press them into your hands. But when the breeze stops blowing, or the child moves off in search of something else, it can be harder. They start to become Looked …
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