From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

Greying_Pilgrim

Mmmm, it's strange re-do I have never been able to get LG 'engaged' with the library.  We went there plenty when LG was small, (although obvs they were virtually the first to close and last to open when c'vid hit), and there are several librarians who know LG and remember them as a baby, but books wise, we rarely ever borrow anything - LG does have a card.  Whereas I loved libraries when I was little, I loved the school library van that came once or twice a year to change our class books, I loved the mobile library that visited the nearby hamlet (the smell of it!), and I loved the main library in the town, that for a while (seemed like an age), was based in a demountable building and I remember the safety barriers (to stop you nicking books!) that had a huge sign warning about coming near if you had a pacemaker.  My grandad had just been fitted with a pacemaker, so I wondered how dangerous it would be for him to visit the library.  

I don't dismiss re-reading, I've done it myself, but LG isn't straying from a set of books, that they have re-read and re-read, to the point I don't even think they are actually 'reading', more like turning pages, several at a time, to avoid something new.  Although having said that, they asked for something different this afternoon, dismissed a book that they had read the first in the series of, and have now got 'Eddie Albert' (Paul O'Grady) off the shelf again.  A re-read, but at least it's some time since the last read, and a different genre, so.......

I actually think children's fiction/young adult books are really good and there are new authors that are bringing out some cracking stories.  I actually prefer to read those books over adult fiction.  Although I am guilty of not reading so much (in book form) anymore.  But I have always lost myself in the Famous 5, Secret Seven, Malory Towers, and now it's books by M G Leonard, Matt Haig, Alex Bell etc etc.  I'm slowly collecting the Swallows & Amazons series - I would have loved to have a childhood where I could sail to an island 🥰

Greying X

Blackcats

GP - I lived v close to Wimbledon Common so I was always hopeful that I might spot a womble going about their recycling work.  I'm not sure how big they are in their native environment so I suppose if they were teeny tiny I might have missed them.