Tiarnan's morning toast.

Tiarnan, three, is one of those children whose youthful energy invariably makes anyone older than six feel geriatric. This superabundance of life-force is particularly evident first thing in the morning, when he is brighter and perkier than even a small star could be.

This morning, his face shone with his early morning intensity. He looked up at his mother on sighting her and said, cheerily: "Here's to another episode of Tiarnan!"

What a wonderful expression...and how interesting is the viewpoint that had to give rise to it. He has likened his world to a television series, with each day, an episode. I suppose he is not far wrong, since he has begun a new life, in a new country and each day has its new adventures, here. Then again, I wonder at what he means when he compares his life to TV...after all, his most recent TV experience has been the remake of The Prisoner, with Ian McKellen (as Number Two) and Jim Caviezel (as Number Six). One wonders if he is likening his own life, therefore, to the bizarre world of The Prisoner, where all are supposedly free, but none are, in actuality. He has watched no other TV series in the past couple of weeks, so if he has a particular series in mind, it is most likely to be that one.

Whatever he means, I can only agree to his toast: "Here's to another episode of Tiarnan!", indeed.

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The origin of Life

I don't know at what age most children ponder the origin of life, but yesterday Ainan, 7, came to me with his own ponderings.

"How can chemical reactions, become life, become me?", Ainan began, with his mantle of curious intensity, that is always worn when he considers his own ideas, "The reactions are just reactions – they are not alive."

Thus, Ainan wondered about the relationship between chemistry and life - and the curious observation that any given ordinary, everyday reaction, is simply not life - but somehow, all the millions (billions? Who knows?) of reactions that go on in a human being somehow sum to become life. The sum, as ever, is greater than its parts.

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