Why don't you...?

It's awful wet and windy this weekend so I won't be going anywhere until Monday at the earliest unfortunately so I'm having to entertain myself indoors this weekend.

The idea of a picnic with animals under the tree is something of an idea I had when I was younger, just thinking how it work out, the food we'd have and how to communicate with a duck as one would climb a tree.

There may of been something in the idea that represented a place we could all at peace with each other when things were not so good.

I'd lost a bunch of cds a good many years ago during a tidy up prior to decoration and while everything else was found, a group had not so I managed to buy replacement copies cheaply  and have been playing them this weekend.

I missed those performances.

I read some old annuals and comics too from more simpler times which I really much prefer when you made things and used your imagination to make up activities on the fly rather than using someone else's.

 An imagination is a wonderful thing.

In another world

This could of been me so easily in actual childhood, sat in class with textbook open upon the wooden desk staring into space, daydreaming which it had to be said wasn't something your teacher way back then was very partial too and most still aren't.
Actually as much is it seen settings such as school as a attention or discipline issue, a lot of research has shown that's it not time wasted so much as time and skills at problem solving and using your imagination that can benefit people.
Of course we can all think of just dreaming up an imaginary world which for some may well be preferable to their only too real one, but that imagination can be channelled into drawing and writing fiction.
Perhaps that's why it doesn't surprise me a good number of those writers and artists tended to fall foul of the school authorities.