Squid Ink meets Hal Squid Ink’s reading is wide and varied. This week he’s been getting in Arthur C. Clarke and finding out all about 2001, hope he didn’t see the movie. I’ve seen the movie of 2001 a couple of times and didn’t understand it either time, it did ...

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Who has Squid Ink met now? Squid Ink reads a most diverse list of books. This week it’s Watership Down by Richard Adams. It’s one of my favourite books from my childhood. I love it still despite weeping every time I read it. It’s the story of some rabbits who ...

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Someone let Squid Ink loose on a new library and this is the result. I’d never even heard of the book or the author so I had to do some research. It’s about a colony of people on another world, supposedly a Christian colony but there seems to be a ...

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I wonder if Douglas Adams would approve. Someone let Squid Ink loose on my bookshelves again. I can’t imagine what he’d think if he read the other books in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy. I did wonder where that towel went to. He’d better not see the Douglas Adams’ books I have ...

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Nice to be able to sit on a branch and read without fear of falling off. Squid Ink is happily ensconced in a tree when along comes Martin the Warrior from Redwall, Squid Ink just has to investigate. Oooh dear. ...

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Squid Ink says vale to Stan and Jan Berenstain Squid Ink, happily in water on a rare occasion, is reading and along comes one of The Berenstain Bears. It’s handy having extra tentacles so you can hold the book out of the bath. ...

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I’m late, I’m late for a very impor…hang on, wrong book. Squid Ink is not well, he managed to do me a Squid Ink but didn’t manage to clean it up and upload it for me. I was able to scan it but I don’t know what I’m doing so ...

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Butterflies get involved with Squid Ink Squid Ink knows about being different, he must, there aren’t many Squids who draw. I think he identified with the theme of being different to society. A theme Adam Hills explored in Gordon St last night. Maybe Squid Ink should get together with Kurt ...

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Squid Ink meets the Bottersnikes Bottersnikes and Gumbles is the first of four books, a lovely set of Australian writing. S. A. Wakefield wrote these four books and Captain Deadlight’s Treasure and that’s all I’ve been able to find on him. Bottersnikes are well known for squashing Gumbles into jam ...

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Squid Ink meet Elda Elda is one of the students at the University and she has a lot to contend with so meeting Squid Ink is a minor matter. It would help if the wizards could teach her properly but it’s a bit like Chinese whispers and they weren’t taught ...

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I’m not sure where Squid Ink comes from but he would like to take this opportunity in joining me to wish everyone a very happy Australia Day. Don't throw another squid on the barbie, you never know it might be my cousin. Here’s a news item on Australia Day food. ...

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Squid Ink meets his match The Magic Pudding was originally written in 1918 and has been enjoyed by countless generations since. Now Squid Ink has read it…sorry, devoured it. Seriously though, The Magic Pudding by artist Norman Lindsay is one of those iconic children’s books, the ones everyone wants to ...

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Snowy? Someone must have taken Squid Ink to see The Adventures of Tintin, I plead not guilty to that offence. He enjoyed it thoroughly as you can tell. It was a great movie and I thoroughly enjoyed the epic sword fight, I do wonder if it’s possible to do that ...

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Squid Ink - stalked by The Raven Today, for your edification and enjoyment, Squid Ink brings you The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. With this cartoon, Squid Ink has entered the 21st century, this is the first fully digital cartoon done on some sort of computery machine that I don’t ...

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