A Christmas Carol: advent calendars

This is the point I love: when a series of blog posts starts to shift away from the original idea, into something a little different. Start that on day 2? Sure, why not. You can read the starting point of the theme here. My original thought was to split the posts into a good number …

A Christmas Carol: December 2013

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, …

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 …

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 …