It’s not a new beauty treatment, or any kind of ‘ought to’ activity for January. It’s that thing a snake does, when it sheds its skin, and leaves the old one behind. Call it age increments. Call it January. Call it taking a stance against clutter. Call it spring cleaning, even. Whichever of these it …
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Lit Kid: first choose your title
More book sorting. Prospect of spring fair at school, running the book stall again (aka I spoke up first so I got my stall of choice): I should at least provide a few books. It’s not just a book stall: it’s also DVDs, the odd Nintendo game, and so on. But books is the main …
Life begins?
This week brings with it what is sometimes termed a significant age increment. Not so bad, is it? Dan has been there, tried it out for me. I get to call him old for a few months, then I catch up. Nothing to it. After 25, it seems, there’s not much protocol for what birthdays …
Lit Kid: something old, something new
It’s bookcase reorganisation time. A further spurt of the building project, a purchase of extensions for a couple of bookcases – and a whole heap of considering the children’s books we have in stock. The extensions are interesting. Almost immediately on seeing them, I’m transported to a childhood memory: the flat belonging to my great-grandfather. …
Past my bedtime
There is something of a notion that parents should be going to bed early. For whatever reason, we’ve not really got there. Both of us with night owl body clocks; the enjoyment of solo time after Junior Reader has gone to bed. No great ability at getting up in the mornings, beyond the absolutely necessary. …