Life of a cat

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Life of a cat

Nap, purr, meow,
Human come and feed me now.
Claw the carpet, chew the rug,
Go outside and catch a slug,
Catch a mouse, let it go,
Fetch the mouse, kill it slow.
Wait for human,
Start to purr,
Look at me, small ball of fur!

Pirrip purr meow.
Human come and love me now.
Scratch my chin, rub my back,
Stand in gooey mousey patch.
Hiss, spit, scratch,
I’ve had enough, I’m hungry now
Human come and feed me Meow!
I gave you food now it’s my turn.
Give me food or feel the burn.

I wrote this for an interview on poetry I did for Vickie Johnstone.

She provided the photo above as a challenge to write a poem specifically for her website.

Vickie has been interviewing established and aspiring poets in attempt to revive the genre.  If you would like to see the rest of the interview and other poems in the post, or you would like to contact Vickie about an interview, follow this link

The Kid Lit Blog Hop

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Howdy folks and folkarinas,

I have joined forces with Mother Daughter Book Reviews in a Giveaway blog hop.

Mother Daughter Book Reviews are hosting a giveaway hop in which you can win Children’s books, stories and other prizes in celebration of Children’s book week.

To win a copy of The Adventures of the Frog Prince enter the rafflecopter below

To find out more  about the blog hop click the Kid Lit Blog Hop button in my sidebar

To view and enter into more prizes go to the Linky tool shown below

This giveaway starts on 13th May 2013 and end 19th May 2013

Happy reading week

For a chance to win a copy of The Adventures of The Frog Prince, or to find other participating bloggers, please click here

On the Joy of Books

Reblogged from 1001 Children's Books :

I went to have a look on my favourite second-hand bookstore's website, A Book Affair, last night, and they had this lovely clip on their homepage, called the Joy of Books. This will make anyone who loves books feel warm and fuzzy inside...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8&feature=player_embedded

I love that the idea that books come alive at night - I hope the books in my house have as much fun while I'm asleep as they do in this books shop!

So many social media sites, so little time.

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My challenge for April was to follow/ friend at least one person everyday on the following sites.

Linkedin, Twitter, google+, facebook and WordPress.

From doing this I actually picked up quite a few useful insights into these social media giants.  How they work and how best to use them.

Very Inspiring Blogger award

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I would like to thank Karen from Drawing Room Days for this lovely nomination.

The Very inspiring Blogger Award, the rules are as follows:

Angela Carter on your history in a book

Reblogged from 1001 Children's Books :

Bring back poetry!

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I have just had the pleasure of being interviewed by the wonderful and talented Vickie Johnstone.

Her mission is to bring poetry back into popularity.

If you would like to be interviewed by Vickie you can drop her a line.

See the interview and poems at:

http://www.bookjunkiesjournal.com/jo-barker.html

The evolution of a story (NEVER delete your work)

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(This post also contains a short story)

I didn’t think I had a method of writing, but it turns out I do.

First I have an idea and I write a little memo.

Then I write a very short version of the story.

Then it gradually gets longer and longer, with more intricate plot points and extra characters.

My April challenge- make new freinds

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A Challenge! A Challenge! Here is a Challenge!

For this April I have decided to set myself a task-

To follow at least ONE person from each of my social media networks every day until the end of this month.

Why?

Because I have met loads of wonderful people on the interweb and there are loads of wonderful people out there that I have yet to meet.

I would like to get to know more people from the online community.

So everyday from now until the end of April I will follow one person from each of my networks which are:

Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and linkedin and last but not least, wordpress.

All the people I follow on those days will be posted onto my facebook page.

If you think I should follow you, or you have any suggestions of people or blogs you think I should follow, please let me know.

 The people I have followed today are;

Nina R from Linkedin

Quayle Station from Twitter

Young Bestari from facebook

Jim Romer from Google+

101books from wordpress

April is Kindness to Animals Month

Reblogged from kandelsmith:

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The virtue of kindness was an important one at the turn of the 19th century and the subject of kindness to animals occurred frequently in children’s books.  “It is almost inconceivable,” one critic notes, “that so many small boys spent so much time as is alleged in pulling the wings off flies, throwing at tethered roosters, and tormenting puppies and kittens…But whatever the truth, the children’s authors were almost unanimous in protesting against such savagery.”1…

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