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Writing for Children

This week I started an evening class on writing for children tutored by children’s author Janis MacKay. That’s one of her lovely books there! There’s something slightly intoxicating about walking out of the house on my own in the evening … Continue reading

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A bright moment of calm

As a mum and freelancer the inside of my head most often resembles a tumbling, teeming ant hill; to-do lists and piles of dirty laundry marching to and fro as far as the eye can see. A new baby and … Continue reading

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New website

Yesterday evening Big Dreamer put up my new website. It’s still got a few things we need to sort out so do bear with us but they should hopefully be ironed out by the end of the week. In the … Continue reading

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Life drawing

I am just back from the college shop, my pockets bulging with brand new bottles of bright inks. I also picked up a graphite stick on the recommendation of my tutor in Life Drawing yesterday. It’s essentially a pencil but … Continue reading

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Agate Hunting

This weekend we all headed down to London to stay with some very special friends of ours. The temptation with London is to dash around madly trying to see all the things going on. There was a children’s festival, an … Continue reading

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