If there’s one post I ought to be able to write in my sleep, it would be about pirates, and books to do with pirates. (After three days’ hard spring cleaning, I might just fall asleep while writing, so let’s keep it to an easy topic.) I like it when a child has a particular, …
Category archives: Moments
Glossing over
It’s Monday, and it’s normally Lit Kid. It’ll come, folks, it will. Just not tonight. It’s easy to be high on children’s books, but tonight, it’s fumes from white spirits. I have been learning the slow and delicate art of gloss painting. I doubt anyone is going to take me on as a painter, but …
Friday phrases: happy as kings
I don’t generally post on Fridays. I could, of course. I have, too, back at the stage of writing a post every day. But I mostly post in the evenings. It’s down time; when I read blogs, look on Facebook. It makes it easy to post something, stick a link to it on Facebook, and …
Stocking the shelves
Some nights, it’s hard to know what to write. Some nights, it flows. — Some nights, you pour your heart into the words – and people don’t seem to read them. (It’s OK that they don’t laugh at the same jokes, really. I’m still putting them in though.) — Some nights, you come home and …
Event management: parents wanted
Once upon a time, many moons ago it seems, I would do a spot of event management. Not ‘big corporate event, 600 delegates’ kind of events, but still, arrangements to make, people to look after. Maybe it’s the current school holidays that brings it to mind, but I’d like to think that my event management …