Showing posts with label John Steinbeck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Steinbeck. Show all posts

Friday, 30 December 2011

Resolutions 2012

  1. Must. Not. Have. Any. More. Pretzels. In. The. House. Ever...
  2. Must stop buying vintage Quality Street tins. Its getting silly now...
  3. Ditto posters. Even ones that are not massive. I do not have enough walls.
  4. Must remember that cleaning CAN be relaxing, de-stressing and CAN involve the whole family.
  5. Maybe I should start delegating the cooking too, for the same reasons.
  6. Will read more books again, even though magazines are easy visual eye candy.*
  7. Will sort my books out so they are grouped properly, instead of bunging new ones into random available spaces.



*Have started John Steinbeck and Robert Capa's 1947 "Russian Journal". Saw some fuss in the press about schools allegedly copping out by setting Steinbeck's mere 6-chapter "Of Mice And Men" to year 10 kids. Michael Gove, Minister for Something To Do With Making Children Cleverer, thinks children should read 50 books a year. That's one a week. Maybe he means short-ish books. I'm not tying either of my kids to chairs to make them "achieve" a novel a week...