This year the residents of the Palace of Bundance are going to pack up their Lego, Men in Black figurines (is a figurine just a toy that doesn’t do anything?), their cake icing partworks and set off for Cornwall for the annual expedition. Can you imagine a camel caravans laden and clanking and covering the desert […]
My wild thing picks his favourite book
There aren’t many books I really remember having read to me in childhood – Beatrice Potter, especially the scary one with the squirrel, Anatole the French mouse and the Tiger Who Came To Tea (although I may have imagined that). But I still remember the way I felt about Where The Wild Things Are, by […]
On tour, Discovery at Rosehill – a spooky treat
How Hairy McLary came to the rescue in a bad case of transitionitis
Each time my big boys come back from seeing their dad there is tension, in fact that’s something of an understatement – there is shouty, grumpy, tearful out-of-sortsy tension.It’s not that anyone does anything wrong or that there is any animosity. In fact it all goes fairly well, as far as these things go.But the […]
An e-reader’s lament for the book case
What will become of the book case? The shelf, the stack and the pile? Til now, a home is not a home that doesn’t have at least one wall given over to jostling colourful spines. Books read, loved, received, abandoned. The shelves tell their own story. The progress from empty shelf to bulging, double-stacked collection […]