Daughter Number 2 was off on a play date tonight; which gave Daughter Number 1 some nice 1 to 1 time. She wanted to bake cookies; which was great - sorted for lunch boxes for the rest of the week. The cookies do seem to be the size of a side plate! We made three times as many as recommended by the recipe... so they would have been the size of dinner plates.
It also gave us another opportunity to eat MUSHROOMS - this time in bolognese. A recipe I had made once for my friend's children before I realised quite how unpopular mushrooms are with most small children.
Daughter Number 1 informed me she was meant to take in poetry books to school tomorrow. I found a book I had had for 0' Level. (I also have two of my A' Level poetry books - but I don't think Larkin or TS Eliot are necessarily suitable for 10 YOs!)
I had marked in the book the poems I had studied. In those days we learnt the poems by heart and then were able to quote lines in our essays. I remember walking the dog during my 0 and A Levels and having chunks of poems and novels going round and round in my mind.
I wouldn't have been able to re-call any of the poems if asked; but on re-reading the words are like old friends; comforting and familiar. I always consider myself a poor rote learner; I must have worked hard to have embed those words and phrases.
From the Lucy Poems, William Wordsworth
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
-Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
I hope we manage to find a poem that she enjoys for tomorrow; I started telling her the first lines of another favourite; "Do not go gently into that good night" - "What is about?" she said; "Dying" I said. "That's nice" she said with her customary sarcasm!
Here is one of the monster cookies..
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