[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-epic-journey-and-friendly-chaos":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vivyak-56bd96174e.gif\"> \\r\n\\r\nI will post more photos and news very soon of Saturday's brilliant \u003Cb>Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival\u003C/b>! But some friends came over for the afternoon and their joyfully bouncy sprogs managed to do a real jobbie on my books, toys and flat and I am still recovering, so I will put it off til tomorrow. \\r\n\\r\nIn the meantime, you can see the yak I drew on the train when \u003Cb>Viviane Schwarz\u003C/b>, my very tired, blu-tack-obsessed 7-year-old neighbour friend and I had a yak drawing session on a journey that was supposed to be fifteen minutes and turned into a three-hour voyage. \u003Ca href=\"http://vivianeschwarz.blogspot.com/2009/04/books-and-yaks.html\">(Viviane has written it up here on her ultra-addictive blog.)\u003C/a> I didn't know Viviane very well before Saturday, but now I can confidently say that Viviane's fab and that there are few people with whom I would rather be stuck on a train and sing show tunes.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vivcat-0136e3296b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPhoto of aforementioned disaster zone, before it got \u003Ci>really\u003C/i> messy:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kidchaos-e3d860b383.jpg\">","2009-04-26T21:32:00.000Z","epic-journey-and-friendly-chaos",[],"epic journey and friendly chaos",1776628732106]