Dan Morelle
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October 2007 archives
School Children’s Book Awards
I’ve always been a bit cynical about awards. From my days working at !K7 records I learned that just to be considered for the nominations cost thousands of pounds and once you got through that stage the label signed up to more expense. When I saw Michael Rosen on teachers.tv ranting about book awards my [...]
Really Random?
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Too many coincidences recently, so after another chance meeting I was compelled to map the connections. I took out the words for you here so it might actually make more sense. To me it looks like a weather forcast. A hurricane perhaps. Hurricane random?
To celebrate the randomness here is another musical podcast I made with the same name - it has a very special introduction from the marvelous Maurice Sendak. Have a listen and tell me if its just me that's drawing all the connections?
Really Random?
I’m in that podcasting mood again. Here’s a little mix i’ve assembled with a bit of randomness in mind. Its not shuffled but the links are pretty abstract. I’ve been observing a lot of freaky coincidences lately and felt this a good opportunity to celebrate it. Chances are, if we’ve not met yet, we will. [...]li’l owl
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my name is owl
and i'm happy to be
the only one
up this giant big tree
poor little rosa was so miserable tonight, ella and i sang made up silly haikus and doodled quick pictures of birds up trees. rosa cheered up a little.
Nelly
Dan Morelle posted a photo:
My friend and ex-neighbor popped over unexpectedly a week or so ago. He told us that his good natured, gentle and sweet (if a little smelly!?) Staffordshire Terrier had passed away. Its a very sad story. Its a shame to lose a good friend like Nelly - we looked after her a few times and you will never meet a more gentle creature.
I made this for Ben and his family. My sepia brush pen and some over zealous rubbing out.
Ladybird Love
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I discovered these two beauties after putting my two little beauties off to bed tonight.
A yellow ladybird with black spots and a black lady bird with red spots.
They were at either end of the blind but gradually crawled towards each other - when I caught them having a sneaky kiss I felt incredibly privledged to witness it, the hairs stood up on my neck. I switched the light off and went back downstairs to give them some privacy...
Turns out that these two are variations of the Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) also known as the Multicoloured Asian Ladybird and the Halloween Ladybird. The black dude is called H. axyridis spectabilis and the yellow lady is called H. axyridis succinea. If you would like to know more about them look here: www.harlequin-survey.org/
Moments like these convince me I must invest in a proper camera, one of these days...