It sits there quietly waiting for death. Not its own, but that will surely come too. The house waits for its owner, no longer living there, to pass. Within its walls, it holds her secrets, her dreams, her love. It holds her memories in a way that she no longer can.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – a fun puppy puppet made out of toilet rolls. My last few projects have concentrated on using recyclable materials you probably already have on hand. If you haven’t already seen them, check out Get Organised With These Great Recycling Projects and Marble Run Fun So
As Tess sat on the toilet in the hospital she knew she would have to be brave to get through this. She was a survivor, as anyone who knew the 93-year-old would tell you. Born in Holland, she had endured being raped by first the Russians, and then the Germans, during the war. The
This is the final part of the short story about broken relationships and broken minds. You can read part one of Broken here and part two here. Please note this is fiction and any similarity between real people and places is purely coincidental. Paranoid schizophrenia is a subtype of
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – marble run fun. There is such a fascination with watching marbles whizz down little slides in all directions. It can keep adults and kids amused for hours. I remember buying a plastic marble run for my sons when they were young – they absolutely loved it.
Clint Eastwood believed they were not listening when he ‘talked to the trees’ (Paint Your Wagon) but he may have been wrong. French scientists have discovered trees do talk – well, at least they make noises when they are running out of water. The scientists at Grenoble University, France, used slivers of dead
This is part two of the three-part short story about broken relationships and broken minds. You can read part one of Broken here. Please note this is fiction and any similarity between real people and places is purely coincidental. Part one ended with the doctor informing Melanie the police were waiting to speak with her.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – great recycling projects using things you already have. A few weeks ago I gave instructions for a really cool train desk caddy, How to Make a Starlight Express Desk Caddy. While this one is really fun and uses recyclables, it may not be big enough for
Gleeful Grandiva is brought to you today by the letter R and the number 23,000, honouring the fact there are nearly that many words in the English language where the third letter is R. R is for ridiculous which is what it’s like to type a story on my notebook these days as
This is part one of the three-part short story about broken relationships and broken minds. Please note this is fiction and any similarity between real people and places is purely coincidental. Everything was so loud. The sound of metal scraping against metal, strange beeping noises, swift footsteps. These noises were incongruous against the
