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NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day Nine

Well, today has gone better. On many levels. As for haiku writing, for haiku #48 I took inspiration from the #NaPoWriMo day 8 prompt to...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day Eight

My goodness, what a day. What a weird, stressful day here on our workaway experience. It's certainly not going to plan. All the same, I...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day Seven

It's been a great day for haiku writing! This morning I went for a walk with some of the other volunteers down 'sakura road' - a whole...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day 6

The past few days I've been quite busy and struggling to find time to write my haiku. Today I had a decent amount of time... but only...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day Five

Day five of NaPoWriMo, surprised by how many I managed to write today. We had a hard morning of work and aside from a few scribbles when...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day Four

Day four of NaPoWriMo. Cherry blossoms are featuring heavily! They are just on the brink of coming out properly, and they'd better get on...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day Three

Another day spent mostly on public transport... so glad to finally be grounded now for a few weeks are least. The cherry blossoms are so...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day Two

The sakura (cherry blossom) are late this year - some trees are edging towards full bloom and others have barely opened up. Roadsides...

NaPoWriMo 2017 Haiku 575 - Day One

And so begins National Poetry Writing Month 2017. I will be striving to write haiku, as many as I can, every day for the whole of April....

NaPoWriMo 2017

I took part in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2015 - if you are unfamiliar with NaNo, the basic concept is that you write a...

BaBs - Pudding Shop Press

Don't you just love it when you stumble across a really good blog? Something else to follow, to keep up with and share with your friends?...

The True Japan - my recent articles

Here is a link to The True Japan website, which I regularly write articles for. Recent topics I have written about include The Best Time...

BaBs - Interview with Author Sophie Cleverly

Very excited to be kicking off my author interviews with a good friend of mine, Sophie Cleverly. Having done a Creative Writing BA, I met...

2017 Update - February

Hello again from me with another quick update. I've been busy writing my Bits and Bobs blog posts and have some great ones lined up in...

BaBs - Super Simple Learning

As a kindergarten teacher, I am always on the lookout for new materials I can use in class. There are, literally, millions of free...

2017 Update - January

Hello, just a quick update with what I've been up to recently: BaB's - as you may have seen, I have published my first Bits and Bobs...

BaBs (Bits and Bobs)

To celebrate 2017, I'm adding a new section to my blog called BaBs (Bits and Bobs). These fortnightly posts will spread the word on...

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