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Words & Books, and More Words & More Books!

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Writer, Poet, Blogger, Editor, I write things, because words are my main tools for what I love to do, to write, and to speak, and if I’m speaking in public, for a purpose, words will be written, probably to properly say what I really want to say.

And this year is definitely a year of words, and books for me! I put out a call for words to be written and sent to me, and I know have a book on its way to being printed, so it can be launched and then provided to all of the wonderful people who’ve sent in their responses as requested. This book, and anthology of both poetry and prose is a fine look at what creative people thought on, regarding Covid-19, from the serious to the ridiculous, and all things in between.

This book will be launched during the Gawler and Adelaide Plains Festival of Words (Recovery), and this Festival is another perfect storm of words, with writers, and poets doing thier thing in a variety of ways, in a variety of different places, taking words to the community!

And today, I’ll be talking with a friend and one of the things that will be mentioned is another book a book that may well be written, and then published next year, with a launch, perhaps, because, well who doesn’t like to celebrate a new book come into the world?! I love book launches! This book with be the fourth in a series of books begun way back, when my son was at Primary school. He’s now a grown man, working for a living, with his own house … Wow.

And of course, there are the things I do regularly, a writing group meeting every Thursday, Poetry reading every month, and the Festival, an annual event held in July, with the seventh such Festival happening this year 22-25 July. What fun, what lovely words!

And there will be workshops run for that Festival, and I hope attendees might end up writing their own new book, and have a book launch, so I can attend, and feel joyful for having been involved in that new book coming into the world, a precious time for sure!

And of course there are also books in the library, where I visit every month or so, to find some more books to read, then take back again, free of charge. I love libraries, and I’m glad to live in Australia, where our library system buys books, and loans them out to readers the way they do, it’s great!

Yes, I love words, and I’m so glad there are many people in the world who love books too! Do you love books? If you do, leave a message to tell us about it!

One of my books, and a brochure, all about multiple sclerosis, which I’ve written about, raising funds and awareness about my chronic illness …
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The Books are in the Fridge

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Books in the fridge? What madness is thins, who would put books in a fridge? It may seem like a weird and way out thing, but in the small South Australian town of Mallala, there a brightly coloured fridge carefully placed just on the other side of the fence, so it’s between the Dublin Road, and a house. that is loaded up with books.

I know about this strange thing, and I was happy to be able to go along and have a look. The fridge is actually a Little Free Library ! If you’ve never heard of Little Free Libraries, they are tiny libraries, most often out in the open, often near someone’s home. That ‘someone’ may be the ‘steward’ who looks after the Little Free Library. There is more information about this cute little book homes here – Little Free Library

I’d heard of these little book halfway homes before, but had never actually seen one, even though I certainly thought about the possibility of having one myself. I decided my house doesn’t have enough traffic pass through it to make it a viable option for me. So, like some other good ideas, nothing more came of it.

I still love books, and libraries though, for sure. So when a resident at my closest town put up a notice on a Facebook Page I have, Mallala Crossroad Chronicle, I immediately wanted to help out, with further advertising this wonderful service. The town of Mallala certainly has a normal library, inside a room at the Adelaide Plains Council building in Mallala, but that is only open twice a week, for a few hours on each of those days.

Now, Mallala has its own Little Free Library, and yes, it’s inside a fridge! This fridge is an old fridge, that was bought and painted in bright colours to make it beautiful, and also obvious. If you drive past the house where the fridge is place in front of, you can miss seeing the Little Free Library.

So I got some more information about this Little Free Library, from the people at whose house the fridge is, and I put it on the front cover of the May issue of the Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. This a newsletter that I edit, that comes out once a month. So on the front cover of the May 2020 issue of the Chronicle is the story all about the Mallala Little Free Library. Christine, the woman whose idea it was, wrote the article, and provided me with a great photograph of the fridge/Little Free Library.

If you go here, and scroll down, you’ll find another photo of the Library, as well as a little bit about it all. I’ve been thinking about taking a look at this library ever since I heard about it last month, and today, when I visited my mother, she gave me two books for me to take along and put in the library! I was thrilled, finally, I would finally get there! So I did. I opened the fridge door, and there were many, many books! Grown up’s books, and children’s books, fiction and non fiction, lots of lovely pre-loved books.

So I placed the two books from my mother into the library, and took out four books to bring home. One of the books I took, I will give to my mum, and the others I will keep. I’m going to take some of the books I have at home, to the Mallala Little Free Library soon, perhaps tomorrow. I have lots of books, and sharing them feels like a good thing to do!

Have you heard about Little Free Libraries before? Do you have one at your place? This is a big thing, a world wide thing, and sharing books with others is surely a fine thing to do! I’d love to hear any thoughts you have about it!