Summer Tuesday challenge 09 – week 6

Hello everyone! I am back from two lovely relaxing and scorching weeks in Croatia. I did lots of swimming in the sea, eating truffles and reading – including the first three books of the ‘Twilight’ series. (By the way, I have to say I am definitely team Jacob rather than team Edward).
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Tuesday Challenge Number 5: let’s get cooking!

George’s Marvelous Medicine display, detail of George himself with Granmda’s medicine, originally uploaded by tiramisucake22.
Welcome to challenge number 5! I’ve really enjoyed reading your previous entries, so well done. It seems to have been a baking week this week. I made some banana bread, my sister baked some lovely carrot cake, and a friend of [...]

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Summer Tuesday challenge 09 – week 3

Cup of tea, originally uploaded by ondravojta.
I don’t know what you think but in my opinion, there’s nothing quite like sharing a cup of tea and having a good old chat with someone. As I’m on holidays from school, like some of you are, I’ve had the chance to catch up with lots of friends, [...]

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Summer Tuesday challenge 09 – week 2

 
Time Travellers, originally uploaded by larukucafe.
Thanks for all your comments on last Tuesday’s summer challenge, you all seem to have busy summers planned! I have a made a note of all your book recommendations and will let you know when I read them. This week’s challenge is written by Caroline, one of our volunteers: 

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And the winner is…

L1010250, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
Kathy Whitestone!
Well done, Kathy. Your £10 voucher for the Book Nook children’s bookshop will be winging its way to you soon.
Thank you to everyone else who took the time to give us feedback on our open mic night last week. Kathy’s favourite parts were ‘all the great poems and stories’ and [...]

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And the winner is…

Well done Carmen! Your name was picked at random and you will get  a prize at the workshops today. Carmen wrote a fantastically gruesome sentence using the word shark – take a read! Well done to everyone else who entered, I was impressed by how you all took the instructions and used them in different [...]

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Summer Tuesday Challenge Winners!

Well done to everyone who entered our Tuesday challenges over the summer. We enjoyed hearing your creative thoughts over the blog and hope it kept your imaginations working. There were some great responses. We have however chosen our two winners. They are:
Ione and Leah
Congratulations! You both put a lot of effort into responding with your [...]

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There’s my story!

Waterstones display, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
After saying goodbye to the Piglets group until September at our final session last week, I wandered into town to pop into Waterstones. Rumour had it that our entries into the What’s your Story competition were on display in the window! I think all our Piglets and Saddlebacks made it [...]

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What’s your story?

  
Piglets and Waterstones competition, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
  
Both the Piglets and Saddlebacks wrote entries for the Waterstones What’s your Story writing competition yesterday. It’s amazing how the chance to win £500 of book tokens got the creative juices flowing! With the Piglets group we played a word association game to come up with the opening [...]

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