Outside it is pouring with rain, Michael Jackson is dead, the cows in the field are hiding under the trees, the builders next door are banging on the walls and making it hard to get any work done. Time, then, for a rambling blog post. Went with a tent and some friends at the weekend …
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A few months back, I came across Mia Pearlman via the webpage of the Cloud Appreciation Society. I think she’s amazing and I can’t wait to get the chance to go and see some of her installations close up. She’s able to capture the way that a cloud is a water-sculpture made by air currents and …
I thought it would be fun to start an occasional series of blog posts about some of my favourite fairy stories and folk tales. I’ll find a link to somewhere you can read a particular story online, write up a few thoughts and post some drawings to go with it. When I’ve done enough, and if I …
As promised, here’s a snapshot of the book launch cake. The story goes that once upon a time, when the good folk from Blackwell’s went to the cakemaker, she at first refused to write the title of the book on the cake. ‘You mean glass seat?’ she insisted. With great difficulty they persuaded her that …
I had the amazing surprise on Saturday morning of coming upon a lovely review of The Girl with Glass Feet in The Guardian, so many thanks to them and to Catherine Taylor, the reviewer. I’ll post it on here in full next week, when I have the internet back up at home, but if you’d like to …