The three 'R's - reading, reading and more reading!
I'm not sure about the national year of reading but it's definitely been a family fortnight of reading in our household.
When school broke up, I was a bit worried about how easy it was going to be to persuade my five year old son that he wanted to spend any of his precious summer holiday time reading. But I shouldn't have doubted the family interest in reading, nor the local library's special initiatives to keep youngsters reading over the summer. The Team Read summer scheme is very neatly organised, with a racetrack recording young readers' progress that strongly appealed to my son's (typically male)competitive streak and interest in sport. So much so that he's already finished the course just ten days into the holiday and can't wait now to go and pick up his medal at the end of the summer!
I don't need the racetrack motivation (!) to read, but I have been following his example, enjoying a fantastically 'lazy' day today, reading back issues of Poetry London and Magma online. A perfect way to spend the holiday. Now all I have to is build up some strength for the active part of the break and the dubious joys of theme parks, shows, rides and sand everywhere, though I must admit I am secretly looking forward to the sea, swimming and ice creams part of it. ;-)
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Is it me or has someone kidnapped you and left a black hole where your mug shot used to be? :O
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30/07/08 @ 22:01 
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31/07/08 @ 15:28 · http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/marilyn He loves books and especially those that rhyme - have trains featured in them, or are written stories adapted from his latest children’s DVDs.
Very often I purposely leave out words, but there are no flies on him because as quick as a flash he'll remind me of the word I've left out. Two of his oldest favourites are: 'The Three Little Pigs' ‘The Snail and the Whale’ and 'The Dinosaur Comes to Town’, which was my twenty-seven-year-old daughter’s favourite when she was little. When there’s no-one listening and there’s just me and my grandson, I like to read to him and express the fictional characters to the full. It’s a very special time together.
Just the other day we all fell about laughing when his tired Mum went blank as she tried to think of an appropriate word when she was speaking to us on the phone - and then we heard a little voice pipe up: 'difficult', which was exactly right. Bless...
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31/07/08 @ 20:13 · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk Mo, hope my face has been reappeared as I can't see my husband agreeing to pay a ransom for it if it's been kidnapped! (Seriously, if it hans't it maybe I need to change the picture size so that it's okay for all size screens, so do let me know if its still AWOL.)
M, My two are the same, though rather than leaving out words I usually try substituting them with other rhyming words (well, I am a poet!). My younger son still thinks it's funny but my elder son hates it and usually tells me off very firmly!
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31/07/08 @ 21:06 The pic is there (I copied the black square and pasted into word, then lightened it!) It's just too dark to see - on my screen anyway.
By the way, it's a gorgeous photo. You look about 16!
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31/07/08 @ 23:53 · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk I am horribly short-sighted and I didn't have contacts or ultra-thin nice specs until I left home and was paying my own way, albeit subbed by my parents.
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