Ridiculously, school starts today. Our children, typically, have adopted diametrically opposite approaches to the glorious vistas of educational opportunity opening up before them this morning. Catherine is more excited than she was last Christmas Eve. The prospect of entering kindergarten is possibly the most thrilling thing ever to have happened to her; there was much debate on the way home …
The Laptop is Now a Celestial Sandwich
I suppose it was inevitable in the wake of the massive success of the new wave (geddit?) of Old Spice adverts that others would follow, either in parody or homage. But, well, libraries? Actually, I think this works rather brilliantly. Thanks to Maw Books Blog for sharing.
Status Update
We’re back from a wonderful week away. Four days with friends in Boston, then four days in Maine. There we visited an old friend, Don, and his wife Samantha. Don and Samantha own Rabelais Books, a bookshop dedicated (and I do mean dedicated) to cookbooks. We loved our time with them. I will write more about it in another …
Jazz Snark
I have a very good friend named Joel Hanley. Joel is – among many other things – my daughter’s godfather. He has just had a letter published in the Times. He makes an excellent point.
Soul Sister
Just in case you didn’t believe me when I said that Catherine usually sings her heart out when she hears a song she likes, here’s the evidence. And then I promise I’ll stop with the cute kid videos, OK?
Oh, the Irony. Sorry, iRony.
Strange that with all the talk in the meedja about how the iPad is going to revolutionize publishing, most people missed possibly its most important contribution. Now I want one. Actually two. This is from the excellent and always illuminating website, Variations On Normal.
Wii 0, Life 1
Oh, Wii console, how you have traduced us! Not sure if it’s a terribly American thing to do, but on the 4th of July, the George family went bowling. This was largely at the request of Hallam, who has rediscovered Wii Sports and was curious to see what it was like to bowl for real. Like so many things in …
Who Would Be a Fan?
England are out of the World Cup. In one of the most atrocious displays of defensive ineptitude that I can remember, they were torn apart by a young, vibrant German team. Yes, there was a disallowed goal in the first half, but I doubt the result would have been any different had it been allowed to stand. England were …
Why Didn’t I Think of That?
This is such a cool idea: http://corpuslibris.blogspot.com
Family Business
Obviously I’m still excited about my news, but I don’t want to steal anyone’s thunder here. Apparently I’m not the only person in my family doing the book thing. It seems that while we thought she was in her room playing with her dolls, Catherine was hard at work on something quite different. She may only be five, but her …