Trust

My daughter has now seen my blog. It wasn't accidental, but it happened in a perfectly natural way. She came downstairs this morning while I had Blogger open, and, as usual, I alt-tabbed away to a 'safe' window. We were talking for a little while, and something I'd read in one of the blogs I follow came up in conversation. She asked a follow-up question, the answer to which I couldn't immediately recall, and the easiest way to retrieve the requisite piece of information was just to go to the blog concerned and look. And the easiest way to do that was to go to my blog, and click on the link in my blog list. So we did. Following on from that, I thought she'd be interested in the Theodoric quote from a couple of days ago, so we looked at that as well. In the aftermath, I've told her that she can read whatever she wants, that she can link to or from the blog if she wants, but, purely as a favour, I've asked her not to tell anyone else whose blog it is. It's entirely her decision, but, even at her young age, I trust her. That goes without saying, I guess, because if I didn't, I wouldn't have shared the blog, or the other things she knows about me. A quote I read somewhere ages ago said that a secret is only a secret if two know it, and one of them is dead, but that's the chance I've taken.
I've spent this afternoon dabbling at my Jamie sequel, or parallel-quel, or whatever you want to call it, and made a little progress. I've decided there's no way I can write it from a first-person child's perspective and make it sound in any way authentic, so third-person it will be - if it ever sees the light of cyberspace day, of course.

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B