by julia | Jul 31, 2023 | Book articles, Singing, Writing
Have you ever suffered the annoyance of an ear-worm, that tune which refuses to leave your head? It seems to be connected with some sort of subconscious mechanism that feels the need to latch on to music and repeat and repeat and repeat. My ear worms often embed...
by julia | Mar 15, 2023 | Book articles, Front Page, Uncategorized, Writing
I have been thinking a lot about the birth cry. Perhaps because there is a rush of spring babies arriving round my way, or perhaps because people reading my book seem to latch on to what I say about it in the opening chapter – that the pitch of the average...
by julia | May 12, 2013 | Writing
CHICKEN COOPS FOR THE SOUL – http://bit.ly/Coops1 When Julia Hollander went to buy her daughter a rabbit for Christmas she came home with a couple of hens. Five years later, the whole family was on its way to the National Poultry Club show, connoisseurs of the...
by julia | Jan 24, 2013 | Writing
People ask who did the illustrations for my book, CHICKEN COOPS.. so I had better own up – ’twas me. Art A-level too many decades ago is the only qualification I can summon to mind, though I have managed to keep my hand in meanwhile with a sketch-book in...
by julia | Sep 21, 2011 | Writing
Like wild birds, chickens are highly attuned to light. Wrap a wing around her face and in a couple of seconds she will be fast asleep, such is her sight’s sensitivity. Which is why she is so much more efficient than my children at putting herself to bed at...
by julia | Sep 19, 2011 | Writing
I should have posted earlier, to describe the terrible demise of my first family of chicks. Well. Peaches’. Five of them hatched. Three were really sturdy and on day two were out on the lawn, learning their mother’s old-fashioned scratch-n-peck form of...
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