Budding Scholar Pillows

"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."

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

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

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

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

'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.'

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

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

Roses

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

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

"You must have a green thumb."

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

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

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

"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."

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

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

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

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

'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."

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Gardener

Gardening new year's plans