I started writing another Lit Kid yesterday. In between holding the retching small frame, and the sick bowl, and the towel that got caught before the bowl was found. I started writing about kids’ books, partly to keep my head when all I could think about was that everything we offered was being thrown back …
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A Christmas Carol: pantomime
Time for another Christmassy post. Oh no it isn’t. Oh yes it is… When I started planning out subjects for this month’s posts, pantomime was one that made the list early on. Others will choose to focus their Christmas ‘must dos’ on elves on shelves (or not, depending on this year’s press about it), cookie …
A Christmas Carol: Christmas films
The thing about Christmas films is the looove. Love to the extent that small children will watch them, repeatedly, even in August. That’s how much love. I haven’t had to watch full-on snow-and-Santa outside of December too many times. But there are a couple of kids’ DVDs in our collection where the Christmas version seems …
A Christmas Carol: Christmas parties
Ah, the Christmas party. Top contender for most feared Christmas experience? Or is that a little harsh? Clothes shops think otherwise. Let there be little black dresses, and let them be sparkly too. Hairdressers gear up for the workload that goes with other people’s party season. You know what they say. Introverts and extroverts both …
A Christmas Carol: Christmas TV
It’s the uniting of the nation, innit? That’s the theory, anyway. Food may not do it; religious choice may not do it. Weather, size of town, size of presents – or not. Christmas is one thing – and many things. But at points, there is the promise of some special means of coming together. And …