Kieran's twelfth birthday - the last of the winter ones.
We're reading Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird, an amazing novel about a small boy wandering across Eastern Europe on his own through forests and often hostile villages, much as Kosinski himself survived the Holocaust that took the lives of most of his family.
Maggi over in the evening for a game of Scrabble and glass of wine.
JAWORSKI TRAVELS