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Week One Of May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship - Dithering 101

4.bpspot/-rDbOMaRBleY/XANiHvl0hcI/AAAAAAABO_M/U6yBuv6smaQbLvPKnJ1kFqKO1fPOOPY8gCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_3369.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> I'm baaaack! Where to begin? This Week One post will likely be all over the shop--I just have so much to tell you. It was the most unexpected month away, and of course--it went in a gumnut heartbeat. I've been wading though a million photos and I'm still not unpacked. It's already 2 December and there's nary a Christmas bauble in sight in our house (quelle horreur!). I'm melting the butter in a ray of afternoon sunshine as I type, because my annual Christmas cake is two months late. Since arriving home yesterday, I've cuddled and yabbered with my kids, performed repotting surgery on two fiddle leaf figs, put on three loads of washing (ironically, most of it not mine), walked straight past the mountain of ironing without batting an eyelid (I'm a changed w...

Week Two Of My May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship - Hitting My Stride

2.bpspot/-IFu7VdOWRYI/XAS06pK0rmI/AAAAAAABPBc/hohWu15psd48Vd9bRM3meB-8863GTrjPgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_3187.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> My MGCLT Creative Time Fellowship gained momentum in week two. In the Fellows' Journal, I called it 'hitting my stride'. And I did. Much of that striding was performed in local cafés and can I just say the coffee is GOOD in Adelaide. My favourite spots were the Lion Hotel, First Pour (where my anabawang fiction series magically poured forth--'scuse the pun) and St Louis, all in North Adelaide. Oh, and the Art Gallery of South Australia's café in the city. Below is my view at the window at First Pour. I always sat here. 2.bpspot/-z6Gi5hUO-7Y/XAXWdzdBwHI/AAAAAAABPBo/iTtRsehXr84od73K7NCVIw-9ugH06RoKgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_3007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> It was a much busier week, with lots of skittling a...