Junior Reader and I are nearing the end of our latest Atticus book. It’s been a lot of fun, in various ways, including recurring poo jokes, double crossings and much more. But I have to say that I really sat up and took notice when one character was revealed to have an alter ego, going …
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Friday phrases: a feast for a thousand weeks
Back to food again. I’ve written more about poetry recently, but there are plenty of children’s books written in verse that turn a pretty poetic phrase of their own. The Giant Jam Sandwich is one of my childhood favourites. I’m sure it deserves its own proper Lit Kid post one day. By way of rapid …
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Down in the fibres
This week’s spring cleaning activity: carpet cleaning. Hire a machine that swooshes foamy stuff on your carpet and hoovers at the same time. Having never done this before, I was a bit unsure about how it would go. Having done one and a bit rooms yesterday, and the same today, my arms are reminding me …
Lit Kid: dividing the spoils
There are many shared things in marriage. You share food, money, resources, and so on. But there will also be points where you have to divide up the jobs to do. Deciding who gets to read which bedtime stories falls into this category. When we were still in full picture book mode, it was easy. …
Friday phrases: cheese at the bottom
I may have previously alluded to my family’s liking for a good catch phrase. Ones that could be repeated infinitely, it seemed. After a while of using favourite phrases, they come to have their own conversational uses. Ones that fitted a particular type of new circumstance, depending on the saying. In my family, growing up, …