It feels permanent; we hope it is.
THIS:
Career decisions and no clues — writing, being a parent volunteer in school, teaching, and science
I'd rather yank out my own stitches than miss a chance to read with children, but I also need to belong, and to write.
Wild storytelling with Grendalilly and Two Shoes
After days of trekking, paddling and swimming, when it was too dark to read and I was almost too tired to speak, I got the kids to flex their imaginations.
Guardian Witness
Review: ELEANOR AND PARK by Rainbow Rowell
Review: SUGAR AND SNAILS by Anne Goodwin.
BARE REALITY: 100 WOMEN, THEIR BREASTS, THEIR STORIES by Laura Dodsworth.
Could the shock of the #Brexit vote be used to combat longterm poverty in isolated areas?
As Cornish children struggle with poverty, their parents voted to leave the EU -- a turn which will, at least in the short- to medium-term, make them financially worse off. Why?
Trying to write in the summer holidays (pa ha haaa)
All through the summer I leave a trail of dying stories -- it's a bit like someone picking apples from trees, throwing them to the ground and walking away. Come September, when I have time to write, my mind will be an unnerving blank.
