I’m happily reading one of my childhood favourites when I suddenly realise how nicely the author has moved the story onwards. I loved The Borrowers as a child, it has one of those magical qualities about it and when I found two sequels in an op shop recently I had ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Just because I’m really organised I’m doing this today instead of combining it with yesterday’s post. I’m very excited to have been given two Bananagrams to giveaway. If you look at the photo below you’ll find some of the letters from Bananagrams scattered on my table, your task is to ...
Bananagrams is yet another great gift idea. For a change this one is based on words. It reminds me very much of scrabble but you don’t need a board and lots of rules. It comes with 144 letter tiles and rules for a number of different games. I tried ...
Had a strange Monday last week. I’ve started writing for someone else and was dividing my time between writing for her and reading Prince Caspian for Mondayitis. I’d finished writing Mondayitis, not concentrating too well so I accidentally published it instead of scheduling it for Tuesday, when I realized it ...
As you might have guessed I’m doing a trip through various parts of the US and I’ve left my computer at home to try and save weight also to try and give myself a bit of a break. It’s really hard to turn off completely so I’m grateful to be ...
I’ve been thinking about failure a lot lately, there have been a number of articles all talking about how we tend to tell our kids how wonderful they are, bolstering up their confidence but doing very little about helping them deal with failure. Life is full of failures and it’s ...
The other day I was so impressed with the gems I found I thought I’d go hunting again. This is the whole list of authors who are celebrating their birthday today, or maybe people are celebrating for them as some of them are almost certainly dead, Novalis would be 240 ...
Yesterday was Sir Terry Pratchett’s birthday. This year he is 65 and we celebrate every year he is still alive and compos. I thought it would be appropriate to take a few minutes to dwell on what Pterry means to me. Books Pratchett has written about 40 books about Discworld, ...
I’m going to begin this today with a disclaimer. I have not written a biography and do not plan on doing so, this is just one possible method of structuring it brought to mind while reading an article by Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher. You can read it yourself here and ...
Browsing the internet looking for something to write about and I happened upon this article, you need to read it before going much further here as I any summary leaves out many of the salient points. Just in case you haven’t clicked through the articles goes a bit like this: ...
The question is more what I don’t know about writing, because the answer to that would fill a library whereas the answer to what I know about writing would fill a pin head but I’ll give it a go at scribbling a few words. When I was young I was ...
“Robbery at the Public Library?” exclaimed Bony. “Well, I expected it, you know. People will read books, and now that the government has cut down on the importation of books, people are bound to rob the libraries to get them. It’s a crime which I acclaim. May I have another ...
This could be scary but so many people do it all the time. You’ve got retail people and front of house people who do the bulk of their work in the public eye so why not writing? I’ve watched people live blog from Nuffnang and other blogging conferences and I ...
I’ve been talking recently about the problems I’ve had with the discount voucher and other things and how I just couldn’t seem to get them working. Thanks to a wonderful anonymous person in the community on my shopping cart plugin I’ve now got the important codes working and to celebrate ...
I mentioned a while ago I would be starting to do reviews of toys for the kidlets, this is my first attempt and it includes a competition. Wherever possible I will include some element of education in my competitions and will endeavour to make it about reading or writing. Geleez ...