Interview with Ellie/BlueBeretMum – Letters to Peanut

Lovely Stephanie from Beautiful Misbehaviour has published an interview with me. She writes a wonderful blog that focuses on creativity and motherhood so if you have not read it before you are missing out!

A warning – I may be revealing some dark writing secrets 🙂

Interview with Ellie/BlueBeretMum – Letters to Peanut.

Love

BlueBeretMum

Letters to Peanut E-book Out Soon!

Here is how it started…

Dear Peanut

One day you will ask me what you were like as a baby and whether you have always hated broccoli. And if it is not you who asks this, it may be your psychoanalyst.

I will not always have the answers you want. You know the score, too little sleep and too much gin have done some damage to your mother’s already distressed brain cells so I have scribbled down all my memories of you in the first year of your life.

…

This is the story of your beginning.

Love

Mum

Xxx

And here is a sneak preview of the cover designed by Helen Braid:

I did it – took the plunge and typed up all my poems and letters written first to the ‘bump’ and then to the newborn Peanut.

Letters to Peanut will be available on Amazon very soon.

So watch this space!

Love

BlueBeretMum

xxx

Haiku VI

Dear Peanut

This week is all about language. Your first words that sound more and more ‘real’ and less like baby babble (which I find very adorable by the way).

Everyday we listen to you commenting on the food and demanding Unidentified Forbidden Objects. You get frustrated when we don’t understand what you want – sorry wee man. Sometimes we get it wrong.

You are growing up surrounded by two cultures and languages and I joke that you will be phonetically confused for a while. On one end of the spectrum – the pesky English sounds of th and ph. On the other end – Polish surging sz, cz and szcz as in szczcescie (luck in Polish).

I may be biased but your little voice is the cutest I have ever heard (even when you throw a tantrum – see below).

Love

Mum xxx