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 [...]

My antic disposition

Posted on 09. Aug, 2008 by susie in books i've been reading, doctor who, kids' books i've been reading, music

Dear Reader, behold: the above represents a fleeting glimpse at the contents of my head.  *shudders*  For every blog post that appears here, there are dozens of others that I intend to write, and decide not to due to knackeration/distractedness/the realisation that probably no one else is all that interested in which bit of my [...]

Pretty in Pink

Posted on 21. Jul, 2008 by susie in big woo, biscuits and lies, books i've been reading, music

Hardbacks!  Pink hardbacks!  Pink hardbacks that when piled resemble some kind of delicious mutant xylophone made from boiled sugar!  OK, maybe that’s just me having gone a bit wonk-eyed from staring at them lovingly.  But honestly, has a pile of books ever looked quite that lickable?  How handy that I have a nice three-letter word [...]

Do Fish Have Ears?

Posted on 23. May, 2008 by susie in biscuits and lies, books i've been reading, doctor who, kids' books i've been reading, music, other writers, telly, the rugby isn't it

Best way to start one’s week: on a train to Balamory Tenby, implausibly picturesque jewel of the Pembrokeshire coast. I last hit West Wales on a post-A Levels holiday, to enjoy those final bits of intimacy with school friends before we all buggered off to university (we went to a very classy nightclub in [...]

Adventures in CSS

Posted on 09. Mar, 2008 by admin in gigs, internet, music

Not as much fun as adventures with CSS, I’d reckon.
Or indeed the Go! Team, who I saw this week and are still so. much. fun live. It’s like being in an unusually kawaii school assembly run by Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem: all splitting the crowd down the middle for a singalong and [...]

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