I’m trying to write, really I am. But ideas just now are not ready to eat yet – they’re only half-baked. When I do my regular school pick-up walk, it doubles as free-to-think time. (It also doubles as yes-I-do-take-some-exercise-actually time, and my own individual version of Springwatch at the moment, just so’s you know.) There …
Category archives: Reading
Gaining perspective
I’ve tagged this post under Politics, which always feels a bit like I’m in someone else’s territory. Dan was the one who did Politics posts – and who is much more informed about what’s happening in the world. I used to have a little bit of a newspaper reading habit, back in the days of …
Off topic
Hello again. I finally caught up on finishing my posts for last month, turned round – and it was mid April! So I’d better get underway with ‘this’ month. It’s been a busy time, the last month – birthday party, school fair, actual birthday, family trip abroad…and in the meantime, building work, and the tail …
Free the words: villanelle
Timeflight The birds fly down, the curving wings unfurl. Though I would catch them, make them stay, The summer’s gone, the autumn must return. They say that time is hard to trap – to trick, We scrabble hard to hold it. All the while, The birds fly down, the curving wings unfurl. Some …
Game on: Lego Minotaurus
I am not the builder of the family. My skills in 3D are limited (although I’m good at packing), and I leave the Lego work to the others. But even I can manage the world of Lego when it’s combined with being a game, and with a story background. And you don’t need to study …