Pshhhht’cooff

Posted on 09. Dec, 2008 by susie in books i've been reading, cooking, girl meets cake, other writers, telly

Oliver Postgate has died.  Like every Brit of a certain age, his was the voice of my childhood.  Smallfilms (Postgate, animator Peter Firmin, and various handy people who were good at knitting) made telly out of bits of string in a shed at the bottom of the garden, with such obvious love and care that [...]

I’ll have a P please, Bob

Posted on 19. Nov, 2008 by susie in books i've been reading, cooking, kids' books i've been reading, music, other writers, telly

Best thing about being a children’s writer?  Meeting readers – enthused, informed, very-probably-taller-than-me readers.  Second best thing?  Meeting fellow writers.  (They’re usually taller than me too.)  So the Oxford heat of the UK Kids’ Lit Quiz last week was a peachy way to spend an evening.  I got to join M.G. Harris, Linda Newbery, Dennis [...]

Ex-san-guin-ate!

Posted on 31. Oct, 2008 by susie in books i've been reading, doctor who, girl meets cake, kids' books i've been reading, telly

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!  THE UTTERLY TERRIFYING DALEK PUMPKIN IS COMING TO GET YOU!
I trust this has put you in a suitably spooktastic Hallowe’eny mood, people.
Speaking of things Whovian (when am I not, let’s face it), evidently we’re getting a new Time Lord in the TARDIS come 2010, after David Tennant’s done a series of [...]

Recipe for Happiness

Posted on 15. Oct, 2008 by susie in biscuits and lies, books i've been reading, girl meets cake, kids' books i've been reading

:D
  Moomins!  Blissful, lovely, mental Moomins.  Finn Family Moomintroll actually made me cry, it was so full of nostalgic small-me familiarity.  (And also mock my brain’s ability to reproduce things without ever consciously realising the source: arch ‘in which the following things happen‘ chapter introductions! an obsessive collector who is distraught to realise his life’s [...]

Mercury Thiocyanide!

Posted on 30. Sep, 2008 by susie in biscuits and lies, books i've been reading, cooking, girl meets cake, internet, kids' books i've been reading

Yes, this does look like…you know what. Yay science!
Burning Mercury Thiocyanide will amaze you!
  I’m not allowed to read books at the moment, what with being a bit busy trying to write one. But I’m dangling, like a carrot before a donkey, the prospect of Moomins when I finish. I can’t [...]

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