Lists and rankings

Daniel, Jeremy and Emily are into spotting cars.  They are especially fond of Jaguars, Alfa Romeos, Porches, Ferraris, Lotus’ and Lamborghinis.  As soon as they spot a good one they add it to their list.  Lots of pointing and screeching of  “on my list” happens as we drive around our luxury car rich suburbs.

They also keep lists for dogs and immediately “on my list” any pup that looks remotely like our gorgeous Lucy.

As well as lists, Emily has a developed quite a few different systems for ranking things, from ice creams to flowers to views to train trips to squirrels.

Her standard is the thumbs up, thumbs down and, for anything a bit ordinary thumbs sideways.  She also likes to allocate number scores and gives out quite a few 10 out of 7’s.  But my favourite of all is when she finds something she loves, like the mint ice creams from Iceland, which as well as the thumbs up she also gives a score of “endless supply of numbers” – her very own version of infinity J.