A thought struck me today: and I’m going to have a go here at thinking it through. I’m thinking about that later life phase: those (hopefully) special times when we are free of responsibilities (or freer, at least); when availability of time is not an issue. What do people think about doing in retirement? Travel …
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Archiving
Call it spring cleaning. Call it that desire that sets in, with the arrival of the new year, to sweep clean. (Or perhaps just to find homes for the new items that Christmas has brought.) Last year was all about moving items from room to room, as our building project was in full swing. A …
Lit Kid: in the beginning
It feels like the right thing to do to start with a post on beginnings – in this case, how to begin a children’s book. Long long ago (there’s one already), I remember a class at school where the teacher was trying to get us to identify how stories start. Here’s what we came up …
Lit Kid
My interest in children’s books isn’t really big news. It gets mentions all over the shop – here, here and here, to cite just a few. Occasionally I wax lyrical about just how much I love children’s books. The library visits. The second-hand shop bargains. From time to time, writing about children’s books seems to …
Happy new writing year
New Year. New start. Of course, we can start (or restart) any time we fancy, but there’s nothing like an official clean slate from time to time. I spent chunks of last year musing over how to change the blog – or how to move it on a bit more. I kept referring to a …