As winter approaches and the days get shorter, I would usually be quietly dreading the hours stuck indoors with two small children who despite their father’s best efforts, don’t really like going out in the cold (like their mother). In fact, you’d think I’d be dreading it more this year because three months ago I banned almost all screens and cancelled all my various television subscriptions.
The only digital viewing that the children are now allowed to indulge in is DVDs from a selection curated carefully by me, including adaptations of Angelina Ballerina and Brambly Hedge, and my favourite childhood films including The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden, The Railway Children, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Mary Poppins. It has to be fun for me too, right?
