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Week Two Of My May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship - Hitting My Stride

2.bpspot/-IFu7VdOWRYI/XAS06pK0rmI/AAAAAAABPBc/hohWu15psd48Vd9bRM3meB-8863GTrjPgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_3187.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> My MGCLT Creative Time Fellowship gained momentum in week two. In the Fellows' Journal, I called it 'hitting my stride'. And I did. Much of that striding was performed in local cafés and can I just say the coffee is GOOD in Adelaide. My favourite spots were the Lion Hotel, First Pour (where my anabawang fiction series magically poured forth--'scuse the pun) and St Louis, all in North Adelaide. Oh, and the Art Gallery of South Australia's café in the city. Below is my view at the window at First Pour. I always sat here. 2.bpspot/-z6Gi5hUO-7Y/XAXWdzdBwHI/AAAAAAABPBo/iTtRsehXr84od73K7NCVIw-9ugH06RoKgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_3007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> It was a much busier week, with lots of skittling a...

May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust High Tea + Scotch College Visit

Agen BandarQ 4.bpspot/-nhm8Vky-0s8/XAh_lbZqeiI/AAAAAAABPEU/UKHi-8q8kJ8r6vypv4w3b2vsXK-tbSm5ACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_4701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> We all have those events that will stay for us a lifetime, and during my MGCLT Creative Time residency in Adelaide, I had one of those. The gorgeous women at the Trust organised a beautiful high tea in honour of my Fellowship (and in celebration of May Gibbs!) at the Lenzerheide Restaurant in Hawthorn. Around 60 of us sipped champagne and gathered in the sun-strewn conservatory for a divine high-tea style lunch. The MGCLT Chair, Julie Wells, introduced me, then I spoke about both May and my Mamie journey. It was a bit of an emotional speech and what a thrill to have fellow May Gibbs-adorers in the room, nodding and smiling and sighing as I spoke. I signed copies of Mamie afterwards, and had some beautiful conversations, including one woman who made me cry! (in a good way...