Arcadia. Higgs bosoms. Middle Grade novels.
How Stoppard's bestest play found its way into my novel for children 10 years ago, and will I finish it, or will I get stuck in the treacle?
broken telephone
Why do we create? Why is my cat overwhelmed? How do you make mud plaster? What's the recipe for Lyutenitsa? Jo Bradshaw is a writer, artist and mother and lives on a mountain in Bulgaria.
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or, what my #CultureMovesEurope trip to study earth buildings in France taught me...
and how's that working out for you?
(after Oliver Burkeman)
Ludwig finds everything fairly inspiring
Maybe drawing cats is being an activist.
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Lyutenitsa is a love language
You start with the toasted bread...making lyutenitsa in Bulgaria with Baba Radka
what is a broken telephone?
Hi, so here in Bulgaria the name for what we (in the UK) used to call racistly Chinese Whispers is broken telephone, or razvalen telephon. It seems like a fairly accurate description of my life, which consists mostly of trying to work out what’s going on, get or give information to my teenage daughters and convince my neighbours in the village that my neck is not cold.