Notebooks and walking

Notebooks have taken over our lives. I am the proud owner of a new notebook. I have been persuaded to replace my twenty other notebooks and my diary and try a different way of organising myself. I'm quite liking the new way, although in honesty I think any system would have been an improvement on my previous chaos. On the flip side, my children have turned our home into a notebook making factory.

As usual with these things it's obsessive. They don't do notebook making for an hour at 11am one day a week, they do notebook making all day, every day and will continue to do this until the need to make notebooks is no longer with them (or maybe forever). The frenzy may ease off at some point or they may stop completely and return to it at some future time. Or not. It's completely at odds with how most children get to spend their time. No timetables or school bells telling them it's time to move on to something else now.

Today they have made a joint project - a notebook for the long walk we have planned for the autumn. We're going to aim to walk (with a little help from the odd bus and train) to Italy. We've been researching routes and not to be missed places along the way. Recently we went to an exhibition of photographs of the coast path of Catalunya and it has fired up all our enthusiasm to make this idea a reality.

At some point I'll share our google route planning map and if you have any ideas of places we should visit you can add them. In the meantime we may need to open a book shop....