Kids never get bored

The top three recurrent jokes in the library are:

1. Writing "lol" instead of your name on the computer booking form.

2. Pretending to read the Bible (or something else suitably long).

3. Stealing mouse balls.

Catless again

Among the scribbled tangle
of the branches of that garden tree
only about two hundred
lime-coloured leaves still shudder

but the hunting cat
perched in the middle of the scribble
believes he's invisible
to the few sparrows visiting
the tips of the tree

like a giant soldier
stnading in a grey street at noon
wearing a bright ginger uniform
hung with guns
hung with grenades
who holds a sprig of heather up
as he shouts to the houses:
Come out! It's all right,
I'm only a hillside!

- Adrian Mitchell

Louis never did have much stealth.