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Busy month incoming
Hello dear Reader! Here is my brief missive for this week, given that (as indicated below) there may be slim pickings for the next while.
August (or Book Week Month, as it is known in the children’s lit trade) is always a busy time, and th...
Notes from a highly therapised writer
Given that my first experience of talking therapy was with the Rolf Harris of child and adolescent psychiatry (as perfectly described by Georgia Richter), it’s a miracle that I ever went back to therapy of any kind.* But I was not doing tal...
Rage against all the machines
You don't have to bow to tyrants
I recently conducted my own experiment with how useful AI is in doing very basic research. I should qualify this by saying I mean by this free AI tools available to me as a consumer or basic AI tools availa...
Leading by the mouth (or, travels in gado gado)
How long ago experiences of peanut sauce led to learning Bahasa Indonesia
I vividly remember the first time I tasted peanut sauce.
Java journey
A beautiful island of contrasts
Dear reader, this was initially posted inadvertently a note, but which should have been the post you now see before you. I will write more about the second half of the journey at another date, but I will say...
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Award-winning writer, popular presenter, keen consultant. Author of memoir How To Avoid A Happy Life (Fremantle Press). Latest middle grade book Trapped! (also Fremantle Press). Enthusiastic learner of Indonesian, cello and viola.
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