Stop! Hammocktime

Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by susie in books i've been reading, cooking, girl meets cake, internet, kids' books i've been reading, my invisible boyfriend, telly

I’ve wanted a hammock since the summer after my GCSEs, when I spent an entire week at a French campsite refusing to budge out of one, while reading Dune.  (Truly, there cannot be more compelling evidence of the comfortableness of hammocks.  Sorry, sci-nerds, but that’s a 750-page turd of a book.)
Today the sun shone, I [...]

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 [...]

Contains Mild Peril

Posted on 04. Jun, 2008 by susie in big woo, biscuits and lies, books i've been reading, films, internet, kids' books i've been reading, other writers

The kidlit world is getting its undies in a right old knot over publishers’ plans to include age guidance on children’s books. Those against include, well, probably every children’s writer you’ve ever heard of. Except for Meg Rosoff who, in typical fashion, is swimming against the tide, and thinks it might be quite [...]

Hear me roar!

Posted on 15. May, 2008 by susie in biscuits and lies, books i've been reading, doctor who, films, internet

Or possibly just mumble a bit in a slightly incoherent fashion. I have the grand privilege of guesting on the Litopia After Dark podcast on Friday evening, and promise to do my level best to be thrillingly audible. (I could aim for debonair and sparkling but, you know, it’s been a long week: [...]

Cookery in Colour

Posted on 05. May, 2008 by susie in big woo, biscuits and lies, books i've been reading, cooking, internet, kids' books i've been reading, other writers, telly

In traditional fashion, I have spent the Bank Holiday doing DIY.  Specifically, decorating the kitchen.

That’s what happens when you burrow in the cupboard for chick peas, and find the turmeric instead.  If I was a C15th spice merchant, I’d be well narked.  As it is, I’m quite impressed by my artistic jar-juggling skills.  I’m calling [...]

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