Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Monday, 21 July 2014

Phonic Frogs

My teaching assistant wife tends to go a bit above and beyond the call of duty, hence today she brought home and washed seven bean bag frogs, which were then hung out to dry like some mole-catcher’s near misses, to the disconcertment of the eight-year-old next door; I reassured her mother that they weren’t real and just assisted somehow in the teaching of ‘phonics’ - which in my day was called reading and writing with the only learning aid being a twelve inch ruler that the teacher used to beat out the spelling rhythm and crack down on the knuckles of those who erred.

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