There was a tree like that on my way home from school – grotesque, misshapen, knotty – but for a month every year it was heavily laden with thousands of pink hawthorn flowers.
People throw them through windows at howling cats in the middle of the night, then passing dogs pick them up and carry them around until they get bored.
There are long periods when we don’t see Shannon at all. Shannon at home with Jonah is never portrayed in this strip. I’d bet they have a great time with Jonah encouraging and joining in her imaginative play – what is it but acting, after all.
Why was the seventh rock from the sun even named after a Greek god? All the others are Roman gods. It should be Caelus. Though I think the original discoverer wanted to call it George.
This is the trouble with having the same pupils at the same age year after year after year. In real life, teachers can recycle last year’s list, no problem. Though they probably shouldn’t!
There was a tree like that on my way home from school – grotesque, misshapen, knotty – but for a month every year it was heavily laden with thousands of pink hawthorn flowers.