I marvel at how other people write.  The use of description to make an every day task seem so much more alive. 

Take Livvy’s Life for example.  The way she writes about potting plants in the blog entry Planting Up especially the first two paragraphs makes me almost smell the soil.

Anne Brooke is the same.  Her blogs make me laugh out loud at the way she describes her daily life.  I also love that she can just ‘throw together’ words to make haikus, poems, and short stories as well as the novels. 

I came across this lovely little mini story she wrote called Break-Time.  Seemingly effortless but a little joy.

I would love to be more creative in the way I write but I wonder if it would look too false for me now.  Maybe I’ll start throwing in the odd adjectives apart from ‘nice’ and see where that gets me.

But not today.  I have two children at home poorly with different things, although Calpol has kicked in at the moment so both seem ‘up’ for now.  They could be in that advert where Calpol apologise for the difference it makes!

I therefore have all three children at home today.  I’ve already had to make a batch of fairy cakes.  And for lunch they have all  requested pancakes.  So a cheap food day really, just water, eggs, flour, milk and sugar.  Plus the lemon for the pancakes of course.

While my husband was at home I nipped out to the local supermarket stocked up with calpol, tonic (not for the gin I might add, the yummy orange variety that builds you up!) bits and pieces for tea and bought a film for this afternoon. - Over The Hedge.

So you can guess what we’ll be doing later.