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Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:46 pm
by Iain
Just finished it, 5 minutes ago. Rather good!
I'll probably have to read it again soon though since most of it was read with an annoying 2 year old beside me looking for more milk, different episodes of Cugginton etc. etc.
so I'd read a few lines at a time
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:43 am
by gordon
It's almost impossible to do anything with a two-year old next to you.
Glad you managed to finish it, though. (I'm already beavering away at the notes for the next one...)
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:17 am
by Iain
gordon wrote:It's almost impossible to do anything with a two-year old next to you.
Don't I know it...
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:45 am
by PaulEMoz
I've almost contantly got a two-year-old next to me, too. It certainly makes concentrating difficult... I just tend to have to put everything off until he's asleep, which makes progress pretty slow!
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:37 pm
by Iain
Our bugger doesn't believe in sleep really, can be 9:30 before he is actually asleep...
I'm being to wonder if adoption of a 4 year old instead of having one naturally from the beginning is the way to go?!
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:22 pm
by PaulEMoz
Mine's not usually asleep by then, either. He might go to bed at 8:30 and sometimes will still be awake at 11! Not great.
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:17 pm
by andy vaisey
Mine are now 16 and 18. Don't envy you your 2 year old(s). But teens are just as bad in a different way. Want a lift, want money, moan, groan, grumpy, want money, want money, want a lift somewhere, grumpy, ad infinitum...
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:29 pm
by PaulEMoz
I've got an 11-year-old who's been acting like a moody teenager for about three years!
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:30 pm
by gordon
Not looking forward to the teenage time; the previous eleven years have had plenty of 'special' moments...
My six year old having a screaming fit on a rowing boat in the middle of a German lake was particularly bad. The sound of his shrieks echoed from the surrounding mountains for miles around. And all because we wanted him to yield the oars to his brother.
@Andy: Surely it's getting better now? Please tell me it gets better!
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:24 pm
by Lloyd Mangram
Everything under controle here!
12 & 10
Playing too many computergames while trying to raise a couple of kids at the same time might turn out to be quite a challenge in the end... or? har-har
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:36 pm
by andy vaisey
gordon wrote:@Andy: Surely it's getting better now? Please tell me it gets better!
Yes, it gets better! But also more expensive, time consuming and emotional in a teenage selfishness kind of way...
...wait a minute. Is that better?
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:59 pm
by Iain
I don't think all of this is helping!
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:58 am
by Professor Brian Strain
Maybe Gordon could write an eBook on the topic of trying to write eBooks with a young child around...
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:54 pm
by gordon
That'd be a very short book, since I couldn't do it.
I had to wait until they'd all gone to school before I got down to anything serious.
@Iain: it does get easier for a while.
Apart from the odd tantrum, the ages between 5 and 11 have been relatively pleasant...
Re: Gordon's eBooks
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:54 pm
by Lloyd Mangram
Although I managed to finish Super Mario Galaxy somewhere in between...
and the WindWaker (three times) come to think of it and...
...I see some excuses coming up now, from a couple of future juvenile offenders, hehe