Back to the Bard

After rebuffing the offer of Shakespeare yesterday, today my girls did not allow me to get dressed until nearly lunch time today, due to demanding 'Another one!' each time I finished one of the 'Shakespeare stories' (mostly from inside the den that M had made out of chairs, clothes airers and blankets). So we've now read A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night, plus a Children's biography, which had come in a set of three that I bought to get the one about Roald Dahl during our prolonged Dahlian obsession a couple of years ago. It's a shame that we're going to be away when the RSC production of The Taming of the Shrew comes to Nottingham, otherwise I think K & M would both have been extremely keen to go and see it. As it is we've had a look at what the RSC is up to in Stratford this year and K & M have yet to agree what they'd rather see. M would prefer The Tempest but K wants to see Twelfth Night. We'll have to see when we can go and stay with Granny!