by mgadmin | Feb 2, 2026 | Blog
Recently, I read ‘The House that Joy Built’ by Holly Ringland. There was a lot of good information in there, my favourite was her saying to ‘create what you love’, but a lot didn’t ring true for me. I don’t suppress creativity...
by mgadmin | Jan 31, 2026 | Blog, What I've Read
I ended up dropping the ball last year and stopped doing ‘What I’ve Read’ posts. I aim to fix that this year. As always, I’ve started off the year with a goal of 50 books in the GoodReads challenge. This is more to keep the challenge alive and...
by mgadmin | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog, Short Stories
I am not big on horror stories or scary stories, however at the end of October every year, the kids I work with want to write spooky, Halloween stories. I give it a go, always with varying results. Given that today is Halloween, I thought I’d share one of my...
by mgadmin | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
Following on from my post last week, I thought I’d continue by sharing some of my favourite picture books. I have quite a few to choose from, given that I have a collection with nearly 300 picture books… it was hard to choose ten to highlight, so there is...
by mgadmin | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog
This past weekend, ABC Radio National had a countdown of their Top 100 Books. There weren’t many that I have read, or wanted to read, and those I had, I didn’t love. I thought I would share some of the books that stood out to me since I started tracking...
