TheBanyanTree: A literary step

[Mike Pingleton]

Yay!  This is awesome.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:57 AM Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Awesome!
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> > On Jan 5, 2020, at 10:43 PM, peter macinnis <
> petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Today, I have pushed things a step forward in the grandchildren's
> literary future. As deer and fox hunters say, they have been blooded. Izzy
> and Pippa have been with us all day, and a tiny taste of rain came through
> with a lot of thunder, which nloise they distinctly Do Not Like.
> >
> > Pippa was on my lap (for safety from the thunder) as I did some rubbish
> editing on 'Mistaken for Granite: earth science for poets, puppeteers and
> pugilists' (pro tem working title,) and she asked what I was doing, so I
> explained, and offered her the option of pressing the key to add full stops
> at the end of selected headings. So she pressed the 'button' and learned
> that it's called a 'key' and that the dot is called a full stop.
> >
> > Izzy heard the conversation and jumped down from Chris' lap and came
> over, I shifted Pip to my left leg and Izzy slipped onto the right leg, and
> they took it in turn, and learned that there's a delete key.
> >
> > So now they can legitimately get a credit for doing some of the full
> stops. One book, written when their father Duncan was two, had credits to
> "Angus and Cate who carried the equipment, and Duncan who sometimes was the
> equipment".
> >
> > Alastair and Brianna have several credits up already.  It makes  great
> show and tell...
> >
> > Now I need to get a shot of them doing something rockish.
> >
> > peter
> >
> >
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