another words, saying that their descriptions were literate and she was rather pleased about it so ijerkily know you were ill, but you are 7a, or 73. and ifind myself thinking, what's bad about being 74? where is this part or only, where do these words come from in describing order people? and so i thought alarmed by that and i still feel alarmed by it. you talk about the bonds, one of the sacred bonds in society goes from the cradle to the grave which is what i was suggesting in the poem that i wrote that we bind ourselves together and a date and the life of an 80—year—old is no less valid than the day in the life of a five—year—old or 25 euros. these days are valid, they are life, it is what we have. thankfully, you're still writing fiction and well—known across the road for having written by the most popular kids books of all time, were going on a bear hunt which last time i checked, i think it sold more than 8 million copies. you had time to reflect on something that you've written about and talked about a lot, which is you feel that the education system is failing to inject enough, sor