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Bologna Dreaming |
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Almost a year ago, I found myself gazing out the window of a bus from Sorrento to Florence (not nearly as romantic as it sounds because I was with 15 Year Ten students at the time). A road sign for Bologna caught my eye. I told my teaching colleagues about how the famous book fair at Bologna is the leading book fair in the world for children’s books, covering all genres and ages up to young adults. “It’s not on our itinerary,” the organizing teacher told me. No, I thought, but it’s definitely on mine one day. This week the 2009 Fair is taking place and thanks to my friend, author Sandy Fussell who sent me this link, it seems I might have got there after all. http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/documents/AboutAandU/bologna_2009.pdf Ciao Mo |
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| Custard PIe Theory | |
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If you’ve read my guest blog in March on http://persnicketysnark.blogspot.com or my first blog for the month on insideadog.com.au or even my new book, Something More, you will now be familiar with my Custard Pie theory. Had another one happen in the last 24 hours. This week was a really big scary week for me. First there was the CBC Book of the Year announcements on Tuesday and Something More was also released that day. Then on Wednesday I had to write my first blog for insideadog and on Thursday I had to meet my first commitment as part of my Writer in Residence for Wollongong Art Gallery’s fantastic Just Imagine project. My job was to run a two hour workshop for teachers to help them get students to write about the 12 art works in the collection. They don’t have to write about all twelve of course— just the one that they feel they can respond to creatively. If they wish, their work can be entered in the writing competition that runs between now and August. So long story short, there I was driving back from my big day yesterday feeling quite happy that I’d overcome my nerves and done a fairly good job. I was thinking about dogs: what would I write for my next insideadog entry? All of a sudden a black scraggy mongrel shot out in front of my car and I swerved violently to avoid it. I was successful in missing the mutt but my two left side tyres slammed into one of those island thingos that you see on a shared pedestrian / vehicle spot and the front tyre punctured immediately. I crawled along to a safe parking spot and called the NRMA (LOVE those guys). When the mechanic arrived he changed the flat and advised me to go along today and get the other one looked at and the spare replaced. I just did. And $400 later … CUSTARD PIE! Next time I feel scintillating I’ll give myself a hard slap! |
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| Pain in the... | |
April went by in a flash this year and pretty much all my musings for the month are on the inside dog web site: May on the other hand has been a real pain … literally. My back went out a couple of weeks ago and I have spent much of that time lying flat in bed. Thank God for laptops and wireless. Anyway, the first one was a British sitcom called the IT Crowd that a good friend gave me for Christmas. It’s about a dysfunctional IT department in the basement of a big company and it’s hilarious. I watched it all in one hit. Fab!
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