Tag: It’s where it is

  • Creative competitions for children – roundup

    Creative competitions for children – roundup

    I’ve gathered together a few links to creative competitions for children (and occasionally adults) that are running at the moment. If you’ve any you’d like adding just let me know! Win the chance to perform your own poem with Steven Camden! | Children’s books | The Guardian closing date 27th July open to children age…

  • Top Writing Tips from author Matt Cain on Nothing but Trouble blog tour

    Top Writing Tips from author Matt Cain on Nothing but Trouble blog tour

    Buy at amazon (affiliate) Lola Grant is the hottest pop star in Britain and she’s about to go global. But behind the music, her addiction to bad boys is taking her personal life in a dangerous direction. When it comes to men, Lola just can’t stay away from trouble – and her self-control is pushed…

  • Saturday snippets 11 July 2015

    {eating} our final Hello Fresh meal of the week. Disappointingly, it was the weakest one, although still perfectly acceptable. Unless you’re Small, Smallest or Tigerboy, who all thought it was inedible. Cat was happy though 😉 {watching} Warehouse 13 Season 5 which has popped (back) up on Netflix. It’s a bit strange. And there’s only…

  • Focus on flare

    Light and colour, so hard to capture.

  • Looking sideways

    Fairytale houses everywhere you look. Do you look?

  • Three things

    Last night I cleared out the medicine cupboard. We do not need more plasters. Or paracetamol. I found the missing library books, bagged them up, and put them in the (mostly cleared) hall, along with the non functional clocks and too small iPad mini case. Today I dropped off the library books on the way…

  • Saturday snippets 4 July 2015

    {looking at} maps. Lots of maps. And starting a board on Pinterest. where I now have a business account, but as it won’t let me verify my website, I don’t think it makes a great deal of difference. Do let me know if you’ve any creative boards I can follow though 🙂 {sitting} in my…

  • New camera: Canon SX700 HS

    New camera: Canon SX700 HS

    I’ve had a Canon camera for a few years now, a present from Tim. It was a Powershot SX110. It takes very nice pictures. And sometime last year I started playing with what I could achieve when I moved off manual, and the answer is, some very nice things. Some are on my much neglected…

  • The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak

    Buy at Amazon Perfect for fans of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak is Stonewall Award-winning author Brian Katcher’s hilarious he said/she said romance about two teens discovering themselves on an out-of-this-world accidental first date at a sci-fi convention. When…

  • Sunday doodling

    Sunday doodling

      On the way home, with her axe. An excellent day out.