[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-draw-a-wallaby-with-your-eyes-shut":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today is \u003Cb>International Draw-a-Wallaby-with-Your-Eyes-Shut Day\u003C/b>! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/draw_a_wallaby_eyes_shut_zps94ce4c38-0b8d221d6d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIf you're on Twitter or Instagram, give it the hashtag \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23drawawallabywithyoureyesshut&src=hash&f=realtime\">#drawawallabywithyoureyesshut\u003C/a>. Go on, you know you want to! :D (I'll post some up here in my next blog post. \u003Ci>Edit: \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/600054.html\">here they are!\u003C/a>\u003C/i>)\\r\n\\r\nYesterday was my Australian day, it was pretty awesome. I got to try my first-ever Tim Tam, specially delivered to our Fleece Station studio all the way from Canberra by visiting bugs-and-beetles specialist, coleopterist \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/americanbeetles\">Ainsley S\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ainsley_aussie_card_timtams_zps4d0b1295-2fd43817ee.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nNot only did Ainsley bring dark and milk chocolate Tim Tams, but she painted detailed instructions about how to eat them! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ainsley_timtams_comic_zpsc03ae78d-e138711608.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nAnd can I tell you, the Tim Tam Slam is something truly special, basically eating molten chocolate. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ainsley_timtams_zps45c84599-3e6a8f23ce.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAinsley's someone I've followed for a long time \u003Ca href=\"http://americanbeetles.livejournal.com/\">on LiveJournal\u003C/a> (as \u003Ca href=\"http://americanbeetles.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">americanbeetles\u003C/a>) and her comics just get better and better. Here's a page from the mini comic she gave me:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ainsley_minicomic_zpsccc40ea8-98574c2ad8.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nGo check out more of her maternity-related comics work at \u003Ca href=\"http://operationbabyhave.tumblr.com/\">operationbabyhave.tumblr.com\u003C/a>. She mentioned possibly pitching a comic strip to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/\">The Phoenix Comic\u003C/a> and I really hope she does.\\r\n\\r\nThe other Australian-themed thing yesterday was dinner with writer/editor \u003Ca href=\"http://hayleycampbell.com/\">Hayley Campbell\u003C/a>, and her dad, \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Campbell\">Eddie\u003C/a>, who had come over to visit from Brisbane. (We like to swap Scottish-immigrant-dad stories.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayley_and_me_zps861f0742-53ae57bc6a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOur friend \u003Ca href=\"http://audreyniffenegger.com/\">Audrey Niffenegger\u003C/a> was there, too, and she showed us this video of a \u003Cb>wallaby that's been spotted in London's Highgate Cemetery\u003C/b>, where she occasionally works as a guide:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2434\"/>\\r\n\\r\nBut I think my favourite wallaby video is this one, \u003Ci>How to Catch a Kangaroo\u003C/i>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2435\"/>\\r\n\\r\nSpeaking of exploring the world, I've done a blog post about designing the Explorermobile in \u003Ci>Oliver and the Seawigs\u003C/i> over on Hive Books blog. \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.hive.co.uk/2013/10/23/oliver-and-the-seawigs-inventing-the-explorermobile-with-sarah-mcintyre-philip-reeve/\">Go have a peek if you like!\u003C/a> \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://blog.hive.co.uk/2013/10/23/oliver-and-the-seawigs-inventing-the-explorermobile-with-sarah-mcintyre-philip-reeve/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hive_guest_blog_zps6b3e81fb-fd4badf233.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2013-10-23T11:06:00.000Z","draw-a-wallaby-with-your-eyes-shut",[],"draw a wallaby with your eyes shut",1776628725752]