I've been hugely amused by playing with the I Write Like thingy today. I used two shortish samples, one from a YA type novel (I write like Leo Tolstoy)and one from a piece about something work connected (I write like Charles Dickens ( Read more... )

My eldest niece, emailing about her GCSE studies gives the following concise description of Lord of the Flies ( Read more... )

Had such a lovely afternoon with a storyteller at a children's centre today. Great cycle of life stories which had the kids, parents and us helpers completely captivated. All done in an outside space and one of the warm ups had us weaving in and out being either fishes or ducks. Really happy.

My colleague was reading out snippets from an Ipswich journal from the 1880s today and relayed a tale about a man who'd been blinded through being struck by lightening but who still made a goodly living through dressing sheep's feet ( Read more... )

Living in London Road is such a strange, mad mix of the really lovely days when I'm so glad that we're here and feel so lucky to have such a happy house, magical garden, mostly lovely neighbours and the times when I'm kind of aaarrrrgh, I dont understand this place at all and what we're doing here ( Read more... )

My baking mojo has definitely gone on vacation. Due to insufficent greasing of the tray, my gingerbread pigs are more of a heap of pork scratchings.

Yesterday I spent the day as a Gruffalo minder. By the fourth stop on the agenda I could get J into or out of the costume in 4 minutes flat - phew ( Read more... )

that the concrete floor in the conservatory is not subsiding in one corner. The bad news is - there is no concrete floor. Laminate flooring was cunningly disguising the fact that the floor is made up of a bit of hard core, covered by earth, a few bits of 2 by 4 joisting, some loft board type hardboard and a plastic sheet. The 'joists' are well ( Read more... )

Mo was away this weekend and Poppy and Belle kept me company and amused.


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this weekend I have been mostly tackling the garden - heh, it doesn't look tackled!!


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