{"id":15632,"date":"2012-09-01T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T00:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=15632"},"modified":"2012-09-01T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T00:56:17","slug":"the-first-day-if-spring-whats-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/the-first-day-if-spring-whats-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Day if Spring & What’s Coming Up…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daffodil array<\/p><\/div>\n

Today is 1 September–& that means it is the first day of spring here in New Zealand, and I must admit it’s feeling like it with daffodils, forsythia and wattle all busitn’ out all over and adding their different shadings of yellow to my garden, together with hellebores still doing their winter rose thing and magnolia stellata adding a more refined touch of pearl-shell and blush to the general exuberance.<\/p>\n

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Forsythia<\/p><\/div>\n

So here’s a few photos to ‘go with’ the post & share the colour. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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And just to recap on what’s coming up:<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Later today (1 September, US EST) I will be featuring an interview with Juliet Marillier, focusing on her new YA novel Shadowfell<\/em>, which is released this month in North America-. Plus to celebrate we’ll be doing a joint Shadowfell\/The Heir of Night<\/em> giveaway. So watch this space, here<\/a> — and also, spread the word!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Tomorrow (Sunday 2) at 9.30 am I’ll be appearing at the Christchurch Writers Festival<\/a> on the \u201cWhy YA\u201d<\/strong> panel with John Boyne<\/a> and Jane Higgins<\/a>, compered by James Norcliffe.<\/a> We’ll be discussing whether there is a genuine and valid divide between juvenile and adult writing, or whether YA is nothing more than a marketing phenomenon, as well as whether there are different types of YA fiction and what trends can be discerned in writing for the age group.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Also tomorrow and also as part of the festival, this time at 2.30 pm,\u00a0 I’ll be doing one of the Margaret Mahy memorial readings — in my case, I shall be reading from The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate<\/em>, a personal favourite form the Margaret Mahy canon.<\/p>\n

(You can read my personal tribute to Margaret Mahy here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Today is 1 September–& that means it is the first day of spring here in New Zealand, and I must admit it’s feeling like it with daffodils, forsythia and wattle all busitn’ out all over and adding their different shadings of yellow to my garden, together with hellebores still doing their winter rose thing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-events","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15658,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions\/15658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}