![]() When we have children, and I very much hope we do, I will continue that tradition of giving a notebook or diary at Christmas every year and hope that it will inspire my own children to write. I was lucky to get one every Christmas for many years and I am grateful to my parents for these small, but powerful gifts. What a wonderful gift! I wonder how many children are given a notebook or diary in which to record their thoughts, hopes and dreams? Not a planning book or an exercise book but one of those very special, perfect, beautiful little books that you want to treasure and hold dear. I put the key around a piece of leather string and vowed to keep it on my wrist at all times. To lock it! I remember my big brother teasing me and saying, “Fine, but I can just find the key to open it and read it all anyway!” when I excitedly showed him how I could write in it and keep it private. ‘Being able to write is a gateway to empowerment’ (Cremin and Myhill, 2012)Ī black Doc Martens note pad at Christmas. ![]() It is also a celebration of all the messy, embarrassing, secretive writing that this genre seems to encourage. ![]() This blog is therefore a mish mash of reflections and questions about my own reading and writing journey. As an adult and teacher, they have certainly raised some interesting questions about my own relationship with reading and writing as I grew up and made me wonder who and what helped me along the way to love English and why these diaries were so important to me, both as a creative and emotional outlet and also as a means of finding a voice. Perhaps one day I’ll share them but for now, at least, I wanted to consider how they might inform my own teaching. Within these six diaries, there are also short stories, vocabulary journals, terribly written poems and song lyrics, film reviews, doodles, lists, addresses of people I’ve met on holiday and promised to write to, post cards, notes from my first lot of therapy sessions at the age of seventeen and pages and pages of notes detailing my daily life from the age of 10 to about 21. My simplistic understanding of my Granddad’s cancer diagnosis (‘Granddad has been taken into hospital, Mum says he’s not very well) and death and my brutally honest recount of being bullied at secondary school due to my sexuality are difficult for me to read. I’ve laughed, squirmed in embarrassment (the ‘I love ?’, terrible spelling and ‘This diary belongs to Ian: Keep out!’ on every other page of my first diary are a particular treat!) and cried. Rereading these diaries, which span almost eleven years and start when I was nine or ten, has been a wonderfully cathartic experience. I was shocked to see that, hidden away in a dusty cardboard box, were many of my childhood diaries. In a last ditch attempt to find the cufflinks for our special day, I ventured into the shed, where most unwanted items have ended up when we moved. The characters are very smooth and circular in design, and this simplicity makes them suitable for many children’s designs.A few days before our wedding in August, I stumbled across my old diaries whilst desperately (and rather frantically) searching for my Granddad’s cuff links. Plant Mama A Fun Handwritten font is designed to be playful and childish. It is suitable for designing posters, animations, T-shirts for boys. Tricky Jimmy font has a fat cartoon font, and one of its features is a character like T that looks like a hammer or a G character that looks like the number nine and does not have a hollow part of the letter G. This font is for people who do fun design and like to have a different and colorful design in the background. In addition to this, it is also suitable for designing T-shirts and stationery brands.īalgin Font Family has a nostalgic style of the nineties. If you have seen cat and mouse animations, they are almost designed with this font, and you can design different animations. Consider this font in your next design.Ĭosmic Blaster font has a fancy design. This font has an awesome illustration and it is an ideal choice to be used for labels, badges, T-shirts, quotes, and packaging. Funkie Bunny by figuree studio is a fancy font that is inspired by the rabbit’s joy and also the joy of Easter.
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