You’ll notice this badge on my right column, and it has been there for some time now. Thanks to many generous people, both during my Christmas Card Challenge and even before, we raised $385 in 2008. Considering the recent credit crunch all over the world, I think that is a respectable total. If you care…
I’d like to start by saying a big thanks to everyone who commented or contacted me yesterday regarding my big news. They are all welcomed and your support means a lot. Kisses! ****** And now I have something to show you. Behold, from this: To this: Just look at them! They’re monsters! They’ve cleared the fence!…
I am very pleased to announce that I have been signed up for representation by New York literary agent Ethan Ellenberg. He will be advocating Surprise! for the international market(s) – and hopefully for other books of mine, at a later date! I shall have to get back to some serious work! I was going…
As much as I look forward to coming home from holidays, I must admit there is a small part of me that wonders just how I will fit back in. Sometimes I wonder if I am a little like a rehabilitated wild animal, like a bird, after being nursed from injury, and now it is time…
This year I’m going to try and start a new habit, and that is to post up my favourite reads of the week on a Sunday. They may not necessarily have been published that week, but my eyes must have first seen them then. You’re welcome to join in too! What’s been your favourites? Leave a…
We arrived home this morning at 10.45am, and in the six hours since we’ve been unpacking. The children are debating what’s more exciting? The Christmas presents they’ve just received or the older ones they’re rediscovering? So far, the older toys are winning; except the basketball ring of Riley’s we waited until getting home to give him….
One of the reasons I began twittering was to see if any of the threads of ordinary life I occasionally jotted down there could later on be turned into a longer, better observed essay/post here. 90 per cent of the time, no, they haven’t, but I feel I need to refer back to a final few…
…because I swear to God that all of my goodwill and cheer would’ve evaporated just as quickly as it did today when I spent a good part of twenty minutes separating the damned thing from all its packaging. Now I just have to reinforce the Velcro across her breasts because the poor darl’s baps keep…
