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Half-baked Life of Pi

July 23, 2010 By Ellen

Novel Idea for Tara’s GalleryTara’s wonderful gallery this week suggested the theme ‘A Novel Idea’ for a photo. Brilliant theme and how much fun to be had. All week I’ve chuntered ideas around in my head without settling on one. Then I remembered how The Panther of News had commented on how Boy Three in […]

Filed Under: books, film, gallery, Life of Pi, movie

Tigers – coming to tea and turning to butter

May 25, 2010 By Ellen

There I was at one of my jobs, subediting for a paper – pushing stories into boxes and making them look accurate and pretty. It’s a lovely thing to do, a bit like being paid for doing a crossword, that has a pleasant side effect of keeping you quite up-to-date on the news, or at […]

Filed Under: books, gender roles, newspapers

A month for springing forward… no?

May 1, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned during April The train makes for a very smooth transition for the big Boys from their dad’s. I’ve written before about the trials of transitionitis at Readyforten. So when the ash clouds stranded the Boys at Euro Disney, poor lambs, and they had to come back by train I thought I was […]

Filed Under: books, gender roles, general election, other things I have learned, readyforten

Write about now they’ve gone and done it

April 17, 2010 By Ellen

There’s an old joke about two journalists who meet in the pub. One says: “What have you been doing?’The other replies: “Oh, writing my novel.”The first one says: “Yeah. Me neither.” That’s the thing they – we – are all writing ‘the’ novel and waiting to be discovered as a serious writer not just a […]

Filed Under: books, journalists, writing

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