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Chuck chuck chuck chuck chicken…
…lay a little egg for me. Tomorrow finds me on a train to Frome in Dorset before I attend a Golden Egg Academy workshop on Saturday & Sunday. I’m making a day of it and intend to explore a wee bit....
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Spring Clean
When I returned from my wonderfully stimulating and exhausting weekend in Frome at the Golden Egg Academy, I started work immediately - on preparing my house for bed-and-breakfast guests. I had a...
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Ravens & Writing Desks
I have no good answer to Lewis Carroll’s riddle ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ – but I’ve always thought there must be some connection with trees. I love trees. I am an unashamed tree-hugger. I...
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Rescuing the Heroine
This post has been partly inspired by the excellent Katherine Langrish and her post Fairytale Princesses: tougher than you think. I can only agree: what I learned from traditional stories was that...
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Principal Boys
Now I am something of a feminist in case you didn’t know, Dear Reader – but I do love a Principal Boy. I love a girl in britches. I always fancied the Prince in the Panto, and any story where the girl...
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Overdoing it
My glamorous and talented belly-dance instructress, Jenn will tell you that overdoing it is one of my failings. She does an elegant hip drop with languid grace – I do a great dump of a thing more like...
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Read all about it
I spent much of today in the rather delightful Book Nook in Hove. (I can recommend the rhubarb and ginger cake). It was good to hear a proper bookseller helping both adults and children find the right...
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It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to…
I hope you’re singing that – or at least humming along. I though I’d use my birthday privileges to blather on about my Hundred Book Challenge – which is now well over the ton, by the way. I was given...
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Of Books and Babies
Extrapolating a cliche till it makes sense to me. After a fun full-on day at the GEA social organised by the hot-pant wearing eco-heroine that is Emma Greenwood, I took refuge with Tracey Mathias...
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Do judge a book by its cover
I had an old ruler, a freebie from an advertising company. On its clear plastic length, it read It’s the Eye that Buys I can’t argue with that – even for books. But there’s more than immediate...
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