The color ... orange
Reading books is something that Katy has always enjoyed, and now she will happily sit through much longer stories - often joining in when encouraged. She has the entire set of the Thomas the Tank Engine train books, of which we've only tackled a small subset. This evening at bedtime she suddenly announced she wanted to read the story of Duck. In case you don't know, Duck is a strange-shaped Great Western Railway engine, who takes no nonsense from anyone. Katy knows the character, but we've never read the story properly. I was struggling to find the required volume so I asked her "Katy, can you remember what colour the book is?" and she said "Mmm, mmm, orange". So I looked for an orange spine, and sure enough, the Duck book has an orange cover.
As you might expect from books written by a Revd., these little stories are very heducational in promoting the values of hard work, honesty, forgiveness, friendship etc., but what I didn't remember from my childhood is that they are also chock full of pro-railway rhetoric and anti-bus bombast!
The two of us have just had a strenuously enjoyable weekend together in the summer sunshine (Owen was touring for 3 days), enjoying a pageant in the park, water play in the garden, and the inevitable visit to the museum to visit the polar bear - which was strangely quiet during a certain world cup football match.
As you might expect from books written by a Revd., these little stories are very heducational in promoting the values of hard work, honesty, forgiveness, friendship etc., but what I didn't remember from my childhood is that they are also chock full of pro-railway rhetoric and anti-bus bombast!
The two of us have just had a strenuously enjoyable weekend together in the summer sunshine (Owen was touring for 3 days), enjoying a pageant in the park, water play in the garden, and the inevitable visit to the museum to visit the polar bear - which was strangely quiet during a certain world cup football match.
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