Storm brewing outside. We’ve let the kids know that it’s going to be noisy, but they are safe inside. I think they believe us (mostly). I feel a bit the same, writing. Some days, it seems a gale goes on before I can sit down and write, and I’m only really writing once a week. But …
Category archives: Art and visual
Weekly snapshot: 14 Jan
I’d like to find the right words to describe the sky today. Cold, bright, slightly ruffled clouds. The kind of winter day that lifts you up; the kind that also has you doing the morning footwear calculation for the kids. Shoes or boots? Boots (wellies) won out, which was just as well: there were some …
Weekly snapshot: 7 Jan
Where to begin? So starts another year. So maybe the writing can start again. A couple of days back, Dan brought some photo albums down from the attic. He’d promised to show the kids some pictures from a particular trip; a few more albums made it downstairs with him. Some of this was filling-in work: …
How I stopped writing and learned to love felt tips
Hello again. A month passes. I make plans to write, really I do. Instead, I head back to doing some colouring, when the evening comes round and my time is (relatively) my own. Because, at least for now, colouring is good. Colouring is peaceful. Colouring gives you something nice to look at the end. And …
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Lit Kid: pulling strings and lifting flaps
Mini Reader continues to have some clearly expressed views about books. Amongst them are: Flaps are good. There is a whole slew of lift the flap books out there. Mini has a particular fondness for Spot the dog, who has a good number of flap books to his credit, but there are many others besides …
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