Now we prepare for 'remote learning' to begin. Eddie and Gertie have stocked up their shelves with books to read, while Gilby prepares to do plenty of garden football challenges.
I sometimes wonder why two out of the three are readers. In a way they all are, but Gilby prefers sporting autobiography while the others are happy with a novel. And he has to be coerced into reading while the others snatch every available opportunity.
Though Gilby was game enough to go to school as a female book character for the second year running on World Book Day. This time as 'Gangster Granny' (last year he was The Boy in the Dress). My pearls and high heels did not survive the day.
In an online 'decluttering' (now that there is covid-time to do that sort of thing) I found this video clip of an early reading session:
Eddie is four, I think (though he is so small that he seems younger), and Gertie must be eight. I love that Gertie gets a little bit cross with her brother for not finishing a word, and that he seems incapable of sitting still, even for a second. Still, some early seeds of reading love were being sown in both directions.
Four years later Eddie's working his way through the third in the Harry Potter series and begging me to buy him a wand.
'Twelve pounds for a stick?' was Hearth-father's unimpressed response. I think remote learning day two might involve whittling a wand from oak.
Currently Reading: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
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