Posted in childrens' literature, end of western civilisation as we know it, tagged children, nursery rhymes, poems, popular culture on October 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Uf.
We have returned from the Valley of Pigflu.
Hope you are well too. Though what I’m writing about today makes me a little heart-sick.
Seems nursery rhymes are dying out. The London Telegraph reports that modern parents find them old-fashioned and uneducational. Harumph.
I sensed the first stirrings of this 20 years ago, when [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bottled lightning, busy, canyoning, children on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter, Bottled Lightning is home.
She spent a month in the Land of the Rampant Cow and Pungent Streets.
India, that is.
Bottled Lightning is not your typical middle child. She always has a goal, an adventure or a cause that she’s working on.
I’ve often wondered if she was switched at birth.
Even when she was a child, [...]
Posted in occasional guest blogger, tagged children, freckles, occasional guest blogger on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Occasional Guest Blogger, Freckles McYoungest made her first entry yesterday.
I think she did a good job. She was clear and concise, used interesting information and gave audio-visual demonstrations.
It’s not easy being the youngest. The last of the tribe is always one step behind, busting a gut to keep up with the older siblings. It’s [...]
Posted in writing, tagged children, laptop, writing on June 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been writing my YA novel on a 15-year-old computer. It freezes at least twice a day. It is riddled with viruses and worms. It does funky things when I’m trying to add page breaks or format page numbers. The monitor is scratched. The mouse has to be thumped and fiddled with to work. The [...]
spontaneous outbursts–my ill-thought twitterings
