A Lonely Bee
My granddaughter wants to write a book, a few books actually. She has a theme - bees. We were watching bees fly in and out of the Hollyhocks in the garden and she started talking about where they'd been, where they could go from here, where they live etc. and she said 'gran, I could write little childrens books about a bee and where it goes and lives.' I told her there seemed to be a single bee living in the compost heap. I've only ever seen one bee coming out and going in, I can't tell if it's the same one that goes in that comes out! She then said 'we could have How Not to Be A Lonely Bee book. That would tell children how not to be lonely.' I was thrilled at the way her mind was working yet at the same time I was sad that she even knows what loneliness is. This lockdown is going to have far reaching consequences for many children in the future I fear. My own daughter has had to leave her daughter in the charge of her older son to...