A good week for Project Ideas- perhaps

A Good Week for Ideas, Inspiration, Inbox Folders and Projects Some weeks are big good weeks, some are just ordinary good weeks. This last week or more has been a good one for lots of big and small reasons. They include  strange and small art, some spring cleaning, a...

Standby for boarding!

Standby for Boarding It’s been a little while since I had visitors but in the next little while I’ll be having two. First, I’ll welcome another Clare…Clare Mulley from the UK who will be talking about her biography of Save the Children founder,...

More reviews

Some more reviews from…. Some more reviews for ‘There Was an Old Sailor’ here and...

Buxton and the mobile library

Buxton and the Mobile Library   Here’s a pic from the recent Lit Fest at Buxton where Corinne Fenton, Mark Wilson, Diana Lawrenson and I presented. Mark painted the book...

How do you explain how good a conference is?

How do you explain…. I’m freshly returned from Sydney and the CBCA NSW State conference, mind-boggled, yet also head-cleared. Make sense? Hmm. No, probably not. The state conference was organised after the scheduled National CBCA conference was cancelled....

Maple leaves

Maple leaves Before my parents moved house (a few years ago now) Dad potted up a tiny Japanese maple seedling that had sprouted under his tree. I have it in a pot and it’s growing slowly but surely. This year, the cold snap has rendered the leaves a most...