Celia Jenkins

Hello! I have a bit of an unusual blog post for you today - a recipe! This was a recipe I saw on a cooking show about a decade ago. I...

Two haiku for you :) 24. sunshine, sunglasses, sakura still blooming but, wow! those summer feels! 25. slam of a car door, early...

Well, I haven't been posting my haiku every day, but I have been writing them! Here is a quick catch-up of what I've written recently,...

08/04/18 9. irresistible first breath through new pages, turned open, midnight book 10. petals take flight, leap caution to the wind, the...

In memoriam. 8. wingéd hourglass a young man not growing old, lambs are in the field #NaPoWriMo #NaPoWriMo2018haiku575 #haiku #poetry

6. the bees, oh, the bees! slush mud springtime, crisp fresh breeze, we awaited you 7. primrose, daffodil, thrumming hum, thick...

We have some lovely little lambs in the field down the road. Not too skittish. I've founded four marking colours. 5. born in snow, poor...

Hello, and Happy Easter! So, according to Wikipedia, a haiku is: a very short form of Japanese poetry. It is typically characterised by...

While I'll be having a more hands off approach to blogging this year, I'll still be doing interviews etc from time to time. I'm pleased...

A belated Happy New Year and all the best for 2018! 2017 was a pretty good year, all things considered. I spent most of the year out of...

Every year my new years resolution is to try and read more books than the year before. I've managed this every year since 2012, and hope...

The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition is a prestigious annual contest offering the winner a worldwide publishing...

As a TEFL teacher, I'm always on the look out for new teaching websites and blogs that I can get tips and ideas from. This month I got...

This year I got married. Yay! I know this blog has been long awaited by friends who want to know more about my special day, and all the...

If you know me as Knitty Bee, you'll know I'm nuts about knitting. So nuts about it I even published my own e-book of knitting patterns...

There are a lot of authors I've been keeping my eye on recently, and one of them is Sarah Driver. With the first two books in her series...

Bookshops are my heaven. True, over the last five years or so, most of my reading had been done on the Kindle, but this is only because...

I've been reading a lot of fiction for children and teenagers this year, and have been delving into old favourites as well as trying out...

Earlier this year I had the chance to speak with Ellie about her experiences on the YWAM Ships. I think the work she does it so fantastic...