{"id":1550,"date":"2019-05-09T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:29:36","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m almost ready to fly to Barnes (but in a green way!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flamingo shopping trolley. Check. Superhero cape and masks. Check. Wool, glue and felt tips. Check. Copies of\u00a0The Niggle<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Check.<\/p>\n

Yes, it looks like I\u2019m nearly ready to take part in the Barnes Children\u2019s Literature Festival <\/b>this weekend. I\u2019ll be in the Bookshop Marquee<\/strong> at 10.30am<\/strong>, reading my book about being brave and resilience,\u00a0The Niggle<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and helping children turn themselves into superheroes with the help of scissors, glue and some off-cuts of kite material, disposed of as part of a house move.<\/p>\n

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I \u00a0only mention the provenance of the materials I\u2019m using in my craft activity because I am making a conscious effort in all my workshops now to use, as far as possible, only recycled or otherwise-destined-for-the-bin materials. In the past, I have been as guilty as anyone of buying those brightly coloured little packets of bits and bobs for crafts (and I still have industrial quantities of foam letters from\u00a0Isabella, Rotten Speller<\/em><\/a> workshops to prove it.) But I now believe, not only that it\u2019s cheaper and greener to craft out of recycled and reused materials, it\u2019s more creative and satisfying too.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in the Barnes area on Saturday, please come along for some story and gluing fun. My event is part of the Free Programme<\/a> (more details here), so it won\u2019t cost you a penny!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flamingo shopping trolley. Check. Superhero cape and masks. Check. Wool, glue and felt tips. Check. Copies of\u00a0The Niggle.\u00a0Check. Yes, it looks like I\u2019m nearly ready to take part in the Barnes Children\u2019s Literature Festival this weekend. I\u2019ll be in the Bookshop Marquee at 10.30am, reading my book about being brave and resilience,\u00a0The Niggle\u00a0and helping children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}