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Anyhow, one episode revolves around a certain brand of cereal w/ "Marshmallow monster trucks. Cracked tooth crunch. A stump in EverY BITE!"
This is a great event, went last year and will tomorrow. Watch and learn as sap from local trees is boiled down into pure maple syrup over a warm fire. Syrup- tasting, music, kids’ activities, and more! Address; 22 Vinal Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143 -just down from the Central Library actually. #88bus. Event link.
Illustrations by the Englishman Quentin Blake; recognizable as the artist for many Roald Dahl books. He is much more than that though, including being voted Children's Laureat in 1999. Further reading. Nice little sting in the tail at the end. Parents will enjoy.
Our household was a very lively and noisy place. There were always about 99 things going on at once. In one corner there might be a child playing with a basket of kittens while another fed a baby goat from a bottle. A pet hen, Hepzibah, strolled in and out of the house as she pleased, occasionally laying an egg on the kitchen floor. There were always people in the kitchen making butter, baking bread or cookies, preparing or cleaning up after a meal. From the shop you might hear hammering and sawing, and there were usually two or three people busy sewing, reading, or drawing. Floating above the din created by all of this activity piano, violin, cello, or flute music could often be heard, for we were all expected to practice our instruments daily.
Dad was very patient with the frequent intrusions of his curious children, though looking back I wonder how on earth he wrote and illustrated over 150 books with eight of us interrupting him all the time. Sometimes we just wanted a certain kind of paper, or to be helped with stitching up a quick little book. At other times we would bring our little arguments or skinned knees to him for comfort or judicial action.
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