It seems not so long ago that I started this blog. In those first days of being on the blogosphere, the son was eighteen months old and I was getting very lost in this world of publishing. In what I can only conclude was some sort of time-travel I wasn’t aware of, we are here today with a school-ready four-year-old …
Dave Pigeon Swoops To Success
So very proud to be joining the Greenhouse family all thanks to a pigeon called Dave.
Pinch, punch, it is the first day of the month (no seriously, pinch me…)
This morning: Gary the hamster produces the most colossal hamster turd known to hamsterkind (and by some inexplicable sorcery it has landed OUTSIDE of his cage) It takes almost an hour to drop the son at Drama Club and then I realise I’ve forgotten his lunch Not wanting to face the judgement of the Yummy Mummy coven by sending the …
The results are in…
So chuffed to find out this morning that Princess Sausage Roll has been not only been shortlisted but also received the KBR highly commended stamp of honour.
Curing the post-holiday blues
The perfect antidote to the post-holiday blues? Well, that would be coming home to glorious sunshine and falling out of one’s chair on the news of being shortlisted for the KBR Picture Book Manuscript Award 2014 Happy Mondays!!
Sometimes I am better at blogging than Mummy
I invited my four-year old son to guest post, with some IT assistance from his PA (yup, that’s me), about our recent holiday in Europe. He has chosen ten of his favourite pictures from the adventure.
All aboard the bandwagon
The Christmas tree is up, the son has posted his letter to Santa and I’m eating my way through my fourth batch of mince pies. Something about this time of year compels me to write tales of mystery and enchantment. The son reminds me every day how magical the world is so when the husband and I heard about the …
Inspired
The son is back at nursery and to fill the music-festivals-and-museum-trips-and-bike-rides-and-swimming-at-the-seaside-and-ice-cream-and-crafts-and-ice-cream-in-crafts-and-punting-and-fruit-picking void in my life, it’s time to fill it with all things writer, starting with this blog. The summer began with award buzz. I couldn’t believe it when I placed second in the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award. Such a huge honour. I wasn’t so lucky at the …
Yippity Zippity Zooooom!
They say a picture says a thousand words so the son will tell you how utterly astounded and flabbergastedly amazed I am to be shortlisted for this year’s Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award