Budding Scholar Gifts

"I wrote my thesis in just one day. Is there something wrong with that?"

'Does it mean I can move into student digs ?'

M- Mouse, L- LCD.

"I'd better do my own homework from now on Dad..."

I should be a writer when I grow up...

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

Rose Garden

Florabation - '..mmm...It must be spring!'

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

On Aug. 3, 1992, the Moon rose over the horizon wearing heavy eye-liner and mohawk. Fortunately it was just a phase.

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

"I think this is the perfect place to grow a family."

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

Roses

'For God's sake give me some angst, how will I ever write a misery memoir?'

"You must have a green thumb."

Dig the Garden,"Hey those Geraniums are cool."

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

Setting out the bedding plants was one of his few remaining pleasures,

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

'Talk about stuck-up! -- he has Masterpiece Theatre action figures!'

Gardening new year's plans

"So you can tweet. That's why you have to learn the alphabet."

Gardener

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

'I know that other kids manage on ?5 pocket money - but their parents don't charge them to watch any television programme their parents don't happen to approve off!'

"Your book stinks—we want to publish it."

Small child checks out a book.