Asher can rationalise the book’s current appeal, partly due to growing eco-consciousness – to a contemporary reader, the book is oddly on the pulse with a political message of recycle, reuse and save. Martha and William were very good at spotting things such as gargoyles, and Martha expecially enjoyed solving the mostly word-based puzzles.

I didn’t successfully swim my first stroke until I was 14, and that was in the sea at Hastings, where I benefited from extra buoyancy in the salty water. Well, I try to do the right thing, but try as I might, I could not find any other signs nor instructions. PSA: I am still trying to work out why for some people, on some devices, under some circumstances, sometimes, my images appear distorted.

After dinner, we took them home, and hope they had a good night’s sleep before non-uniform Friday at school. I let some of the others go first, just to make sure the bridge could bear the weight of pedestrians. William likes playing hide and seek so we hid and sought for a while, in my case, taking my step count for the day to over 20,000, in case you’re taking notes.

To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Pleskova posted a few pictures from the book to Twitter: a couple dressed as a giant suit, crafted from brown cardboard; him the jacket, she the trousers; a “Sandwich Man” encased between two large squares of cardboard, decorated to look like sliced white bread; a woman outfitted as a firework, with a spray of orange and red wired chiffon sticking up from a headband. Again, I promised myself that one day, I will take my real camera to the riverside and try to get some really good quality shots.The main event of the day though was Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition, You, Me and the Balloons, that Liesel and I saw a few weeks ago. It also offers a reminder of celebrations to come, of being sweaty in a packed room while wearing something amusingly undignified.

True, it did started raining lightly later on, but we visited parts of the zoo that had previously eluded us.

We monitored the race online but we knew the race was imminent when a large number of police motor bikes roared by. William sucked on a thoughtful, yet wobbly, tooth, and opined “Why can’t people have some respect for the planet? There are some good one-liners but if you too fancy spending a couple of hours counting holes in plot-lines, go for it! They were entirely the wrong blue for Cinderella but because it’s a primary colour I couldn’t change it by mixing in other colours as I usually do. Suffice it to say that I’ve used it for birthday cakes for the last four years, it’s IMMENSELY forgiving to being moulded into all sorts of different shaped pans, is moist and flavourful and much loved by adults and children alike (to the extent that year on year people tell me they hope I’m making the same cake).