(Errol le Cain, cover illustration for Thorne Rose, or the Sleeping Beauty (Faber, 1975); found here)
September is looming and causing utter terror here at a gallimaufry, because as a first step to re-joining the ranks of the gainfully employed I will be starting a teacher-training course – bad enough, but it’s in Flemish. !!! Every time I think of it, and my crappy language skills, I feel a bit cold and have to eat some cheese. Just to make life a little more hellish, I will be teaching English once a week – yes, it’s to adults, and adults are easier to deal with than teenagers, so everyone tells me, but I have never given a lesson before. There is planning involved! And imagination! And talking to strangers!
As a result, I’ve been thinking about what will happen with this web-log. I’m assuming the worst, because then any surprises will be pleasant ones, and that after a day of straining to understand the psychology of learning or didactic methods or how to cane small children, or whatever else they teach on the course, and consistently turning up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I won’t have the mental energy to write much here. So I have a plan! As part of my fairy-tale reading project, I will read and write about one of the Grimms’ fairy tales each week. I have the Oxford World’s Classics edition of the selected tales (edited by Joyce Crick) and I was planning, with staggering originality, to start with the first and progress on to the eighty-second. Eighty-two weeks! That is rather a long project. Why not though?
(I hope to post about other things too.)
Would anyone else like to join in? Let me know in the comments if you would. If you don’t fancy committing to eighty-two weeks, you could just join in with the ones you fancy... Go on, it’ll be fun!