Weekend readers' best photographs: prepare

'My two children, Brook and Missy, learn the lines to a play they have written' Photograph: Matt Jones

'While walking in Cardiff, I noticed how these clothes were organised and prepared as if from childhood to adult' Photograph: Zainab Al Attar

'A poppy prepares to burst into flower' Photograph: Helen Shanks

'Each time I walk through the station of Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railway line, I am amused by the touching inadequateness of these two water buckets with which the station prepares itself for the eventuality of a fire' Photograph: Alexandra Lavizzari

'I was walking around Santiago De Cuba on a friday last year when i came across this kid who was fixing his bike before going out with his girlfriend' Photograph: Freddie Bonfanti

'A dog on a Dorset beach, poised and ready for the next throw of the stick' Photograph: Melanie Taylor

'This man is thoroughly prepared, should he find buried treasure on the beach - a pretty tall order in Aberafan!' Photograph: Ceri George

'We snapped this angler preparing his boat at sunset, reflected in the waters of Loch Leven' Photograph: Jeremy Ball