It's catblogging day again!
Inspired by Lori, I posted this pic of Ollie in the Christmas wrapping paper. Just like a child he was more interested in the wrappings than in the gifts themselves.

Yesterday was busy! we had a couple of new people to our weekly "Get into Reading" group and a really enjoyable session discussing short stories on the theme of childhood, from Sylvia Plath and Joyce Cary. I had a headache I couldn't shake, so went for a walk around West Kirby at lunch time.

In the evening the Coven met for drinks at our local. We had a lot of fun and a lot of wine!! We ended up talking about book groups and may try to start one in the village - there are other groups but there are enough of us to start our own. Any suggestions for books we might try? I have a lot of ideas from the groups I run at work but reccomendations are always welcome. I have often toyed with the idea of an online reading group. T and I have been reading "Northanger Abbey" together and are soon moving on to "Far from the madding crowd". It's fun to talk about what you're reading and get other peoples insight and opinions. What do you think?

Happy World Book Day!

Today was pretty action-packed as library days go. My colleague L and I had 5 classes visit the library between 9.30 and 2 pm and as most of them were big classes we had to split them - which meant we did around ten separate sessions of library talks, poetry and stories. It was tiring but fun. Most of the kids and their teachers had dressed up as book or film characters and they looked fantastic.

In the afternoon we had a talk for adults from author Anthony Peake and in the evening the adfult reading group discussed "Catcher in the Rye". We were shortstaffed so the day past in a blur but I'm pleased with how everything turned out. I had to miss S's parents evening but P went and said her teachers are pleased with her and her best subject is French!

After work I went to see JS and we took some photos. I called this pic "Phil decided to do a little dusting..." I love my feather duster. It's too gorgeous somehow to actually use for dusting! This is the first pic I've posted taken with my new camera. It's a Nikon D40 and P bought it for me at FOCUS. I am really excited to own a DSLR.

Tomorrow I have to take as leave - I have one day left to use before end of March and this is the only Friday I can take time off without taking us below minimum staffing levels. I hope it's sunny!