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 …
Category archives: Moments
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. …
Something else
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 …