Thursday 8 January 2009

I've just re-read my two most recent posts. I started them both off with the phrase (or some variant of it), 'not as cold as it's been...' I do apologise, such imagination lacking and ultimately needless repetition is inexcusable. I do apologise, such imagination lacking and ultimately needless repetition is inexcusable.

What to talk about today then? Well I could start with my incredulity wrt the type of books that my 6 year old son is being asked to read at school. He's six, for goodness sake, and they've got him reading Birdsong. Well that's what I thought when I read his homelink book. But then I checked in his book bag and there it was, Bird Song, by Avelyn Davidson, illustrated by Jan Van Der Voo. So you can imagine my relief then, no Sebastian Faulks for us to read, just a counting story, making use of the supposed sounds of various birds. I really should get out more...