Seb Lee-Delisle joked last night, in the day two closing event (where he turned the whole audience into a band using glow-sticks, after we'd all played a game of giant laser drawn flappy bird where we, the crowd,…
Books
Typically two dimensional rectangles of words and/or pictures bound together in a physical or electronic form.
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- UX LONDON 2016.2
- Rip Terry Pratchet
I have just heard that my favourite author Terry Pratchet has died. A writer who married great belly laughing humour, thoughtful insites into society,parodies on famous books and bringing astro physics to the masses. I…
- Annie-Mo
Poor little Annie-Mo is still poorly. Thank goodness we currently have a fully functioning washing machine as I must have done at least four loads of washing today. The weather was beautiful, a gorgeous blue skied,…
- Mystical Maze
Sophie joined the library's Summer reading scheme. This year the theme is 'Mystical maze'. The aim is to visit the library and borrow at least six books to read, ideally two per visit. Every returned book wins the…
- Peaceful house
Annie is in bed and I have run out of sandpaper. As I can no longer sand the kitchen floor I decided to have an evening of relaxing and reading 'The cat's cradle' by Kurt Vonnegut. I am really enjoying the book so far.…
- Diary of a nobody
Dad compared my blog to "Diary of a nobody". I don't know whether to take his comment as a compliment or an insult. I shall have to reread the book before I make up my mind.
- World book day
Today is world book day. The children at Sophie's school were encouraged to come dressed up as a character from a book. I love seeing all the children dressed up in the playground. Some have very elaborate costumes and…
Personal trainingA very dear friend of my mine gave me two books for my birthday after hearing about my 365 mission and my aim to stretch my 'writing muscle'. With personal trainers like these two, I feel now my 'writing muscle' is in…
VampiresJaygo has recently started reading Darren Shan Vampire series. I am pleased he is reading even if it is vampire novels. In fact as a secret vampire novel reader myself I now have even more that we can chat about…
- Gangsta Granny
Jaygo and I have just finished reading 'Gangsta Granny,' by David Walliams. Its the tale of a twelve year old boy who detests going to visit his sad cabbagey old grandmother until one day he discovers a secret hoard of…
- Aren't kids brilliant
I have been sat on the sofa in the front room roaring with laughter whilst Felix regaled me with funny stories from his sleep over last night. I feel so lucky that he likes to chat with me and that we can share a laugh…
Titus SaltToday we went to one of our fave indoor places in Yorkshire. Salts Mill, Saltaire in Shipley. Titus Salt who built the place in the middle of the 1800s was quite an amazing fella. Whilst a lot of his contemporaries were…
reCAPTCHAreCAPTCHA prompts - don't ya just love em? The internet is an immense collection of data. It's getting closer, day by day, to containing the entire sum of everything that is written. ' Everything' is available online in…
Lomo and booksIts the weekend (hoopla!). Friday night and I've just accomplished the fixing of a camera. Inspired by my post 'shoots some film' from a few days ago, I dug out two 35mm cameras. The Smena 8M on closer inspection was…
The Adventures of Cake DogI love summer. It's my favourite day of the year (boom boom!). This summer (as featured over the weekend we've just had) was a peach. Blue skies and hot. We were so happy that we'd arranged to go camping. Our…