It’s a beautiful day out. Blue skies, wonderful trees opposite, now turned the colour of orange zest. The light, the colours are what I hope for for autumn. But in fact, it’s December already. Right now it looks a long way away from Christmas card scenes of snow, robins and the like. Yet I know, …
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Picture Book Inspiration Month: a few more ideas
It’s another Thursday. That’s a start. Might even be an opportunity to do some blogging again. It’s nearly the end of the month – that month where I said I would come up with more ideas for picture books. The numerically astute among you will see that didn’t really happen. At least, not at the ‘one …
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Picture Book Inspiration Month: how did that happen?
A month of inspiration? I know. A few ideas, yes, but not a month’s worth. Turns out that’s OK. At least, it’s OK by me, and since I tend to have my own take on other people’s monthly themes, to quote Victor Borge, ‘that’s the way it’s gonna BE!’. Anyway, I think there may be …
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A run up
Dan is trying to encourage me towards some TV. That’s OK. It’s a Thursday night, and both of us are feeling that slow drag towards the end of the working/school week. I reply that I think I might do some writing. Which is good, because, you know, it’s 7 November, and I have been avoiding …
Picture Book Ideas Month: magpies
These are the ones that are just germs of ideas so far. They haven’t really started to sprout. But I want to add them in, because they might in the future. — Twelve magpies: another one that came from a blog post of mine. There’s the original rhyme about counting magpies – and one day …