by admin | Dec 25, 2021 | Blog
I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. We’re having a quiet day at home. My boys and I had our Christmas celebrations yesterday, and today I’m watching daggy Christmas movies and building the Lego typewriter I got for my birthday back in...
by admin | Dec 21, 2021 | Blog
Since lockdowns started in early 2020, I have been running Virtual Writers Groups for young writers. I’ve been setting them a writing prompt, then write along with the kids. During the session, I’ve been handwriting the stories in notebooks left over from...
by admin | Dec 17, 2021 | Short Stories
Even when I was a kid, I wondered how Santa would get into houses that didn’t have a chimney. I know that our house didn’t have one… A couple of years ago, Adrian Darakai recorded a song called Santa, We Have Ducted Heating. This inspired one of my...
by admin | Dec 8, 2021 | Blog
At this time of the year, I like to unwind by watching a cheesy Christmas movie or two. These are the sorts of movies that are usually set in a small town in the US with a lot of snow, and a predictable storyline. There may be a prince from a tiny kingdom in Europe...
by admin | Dec 1, 2021 | What I've Read
Can you believe it’s December 1 already? I realised that at some point during November, I passed my goal of reading 50 books this year! Now we’ll see how many books I read before the end of the year. I discovered the Short Stack Reading Challenge during...
