The Duel of The Reading Chairs...

Phantom Steve and I have been locked in quite the duel all year

not the normal mother and teenage daughter duel you would expect

but then again normal teenage daughters don't call themselves Phantom Steve

so that makes perfect sense I suppose

Instead we have had the duel of the reading chairs

and it is life or death stakes in a big way

We have been duelling to see who is the first to read a metre of books

about 3 and a bit feet for non metric people

we spent a crazy amount of time planning our metres and stacked them up in the study

discussing and arguing over creating balanced lists 

and scoffing at each others choices 

and as we finished one book

we place it beside the original stack to make the all important measured pile

and slowly but steadily those piles have been growing 

though alarmingly so have out original piles as we have made modifications

Phantom Steve has been modifying the rules as well

which is somewhat annoying

and has led to some rather dodgy situations

such as me having to read her set text for English

because she wouldn't be able to add it to her list as it is school owned

of course once I started reading it I realised it was all about her sharing the misery

of reading a truly crap book

and then her excuse for me finally pulling ahead

was that she didn't have a decent reading chair

I do, in fact I have a great reading chair 

and she said I should be docked a few books for that advantage

nice try sunshine

she is such an amateur at these things

So I let her whine for a while

but then we pulled out the parenting big guns

and that point is now moot

because not only did we get her a reading chair for her room

it has a footstool

mine has no such luxuries

and okay it is huge and squishy in just the right spots

but hers is quite glorious as well

so the playing ground is level again

and it is on... big time

and so I wanted to draw them up for Sunday Sketches 

so that there is a record of this battle in case it ends in tears...xx