Welcome back.
Hello there! Welcome to the updated version of the Bobsy Blogs site!
Do have a look around.
Do come in, feel free to take off your shoes or pop those metaphorical slippers on. Or better yet, pop on your real slippers! Consider this blog a virtual tea catch up.
I hear the kettle boiling as I type this.
After discovering writing children’s stories a year ago in the spring, I have just loved continuing my writing and experimenting with different ideas and sharing it with you.
In the first lock down of last year, when staying with my parents in calming lovely Cornwall, the children’s story writing came and lightened up my small world to give me an outlet for something creative I could do to somehow connect to people, particularly children.
I don’t know that if I was anywhere else, the idea would have come at that time. There was something about being by the sea with a cup of tea that put me in the mind set.
Initially, the first story (the seashell sisters) was a one off little creative project, to personify social distancing for children, to help explain it. But I loved the whole feel of it. So I wrote and wrote and wrote all spring and all summer and here we are now! True bliss. (And scrambled to finish my degree at home!)
From magical rhinos, to wise sea shells, to a world with a very sleepy head, to courageous robin’s, It has been quite a cathartic way to channel my weird and wonderful thoughts into stories for children. Two of my passions: childhood and children’s books, so it’s been very nourishing and exciting to find a hobby that I just adore and hope will stay with me for all of my life!
I found that my degree in Early Childhood Studies gave me little moments of creativity when we had to do more hands on assessment work, I remember in my first year, my group and I made a little book about different representations of childhood in the style of a fairy tale book and it was just a lovely and wholesome way to begin my degree.
Despite clearly enjoying the world of children’s stories, it wasn’t until i made up my own story (later adapted version of Robbie the Rhino’s magical kingdom ) for an interview in my third year, that my friend who I was living with was observant enough to say ‘’You really love this don’t you! You need to have more of this in your life.’’ This stuck with me and I’m so grateful for my friend for saying this, she gave me a little boost of faith about it. The encouragement from a friend can be like a little pocket of stardust, even if it's put away for a little while.
During this lock down, I have found the time to adapt ideas from the archives of the summer, and some that are brand new.
I certainly hope to share with you more stories, and keep embracing out of the blue ideas that come to me at strange or mundane moments of the day.
I have loved your feedback, and knowing that children have been hearing them and actually enjoying them has made me so joyful.
Until next time, I will be enjoying my writing and reading of some fond children’s books.
I look forward to seeing where my journey goes, and watch this space for my youtube channel to be started later on this year where I shall dedicate my account to recorded readings of my stories.
Happy reading and happy being, friends.
Until we meet again,
Bobsy. Xxx
