Wednesday 8 July 2009

Two sides to every story


A garden day. And doesn't it show?

Those weeds could signal how much we are out of this house, how much we are engaged in the company of others, how busy these days are, how they are filled elsewhere, how much we have to do which is not here. Could I seriously stay at home and look on a garden like this?

But I know that to Mrs Gradgrind and her coterie, these weeds signal just another sign of neglect.

And these willing gardeners, demonstrating not active learning though play, but a poor example of little more than childminding.


1 comment:

sharon said...

A bit disparaging of childminding there Grit! Childminders get as poor a Press as HE and mostly that isn't deserved either...