Another blast from the past. I’m back at my desk now and will begin producing original work imminently…
And with no spam comments at all today, we must content ourselves with gems from the treasure-trove that is The World According to Mark. Today we had a conversation that went roughly like this: Daniel had written a note saying ‘wake me up at 6 am’, so instead of realising that he’d written a 6 instead of a 9, Mark woke our poor bleary-eyed son at 6. When I pointed out that it was obviously a mistake, he said:
‘How was Daniel at reading?’
‘Fine,’ I said. ‘He was a slow starter but a lot of Home Ed kids are. Once he got going he was very fluent.’
‘Hm.’
‘Why?’
‘Do you think he might be dyslexic?’
‘No! Why?’
‘He wrote a 6 instead of a 9!’
‘So! He was just tired! You’d do the same if you were tired.’
‘That’s just it – I wouldn’t.’
‘Well, I would,’ I…
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