Monthly Archive: February 2013

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Briefly Afloat…

17th to 24th February, 2013             It was half-term: released from the school routine the Cheshire One bounded up the garden path, paused in the kitchen for a height check (an increase of 2cm since Christmas), bounced around the living room, talked animatedly about her plans for our time together – and then the Cheshire Mum chimed in. There was homework to be done over half-term – work out which materials will float and then create an Aztec...

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Nostalgia

Blame Baby Sis… it was she who insisted that we made a visit (a last ever visit?) to the Pembroke Bookshop: all stock reduced, shop closing down and the bookseller retiring after 33 years.  It was the week before Christmas and already the shelves were looking sorely depleted.  We browsed, methodically moving around all sections; we chatted; we accumulated a pile of books and paid for them. As we left the shop there was a backward glance – would it...