September is here
1 September 2010 in
I’ve been off on holidays and it was lovely and now comes the painful re-entry time. When I go on holiday I have a policy of not doing any work. This might sound odd but plenty of writers I know try to write when they are on holiday. I always read a ton, but I never try to write anything - I figure it is good to have a complete break if you can. This summer I read ‘Anna Karinina’, which I have never read before - in fact I have never read any Tolstoy, a terrible thing for a writer to admit, but there you go. Now I have!
When I was a kid in BC the last week of summer holidays marked the time when I went off with my mum to buy school supplies. School supplies are hugely satisfying to anyone with a stationery fetish, myself included. Pens, binders, paper, notebooks, notepads, pencil cases, folders, rules, etc etc etc… delicious. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that kids in London don’t need to buy school supplies! The annual September Stationery Festival (thanks to @trudymorgancole for that) doesn’t happen here. You don’t really have to buy kids anything before they start school here, provided their shoes and clothes still fit them. One of the many tiny yet odd differences between my childhood and that of my kids.
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