Category Archives: Family

Snow Ghost

Posted on February 26, 2026 by SallyK

  In May 2025 a BBC2 programme showed a venue called SantaClaus Village in Rovaneimi, Northern Finland, on the Arctic Circle, where tourists could visit Father Christmas all the year round and meet his attendant elves.  The unusual thing about … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg thinking about the Paper Theatre again

Posted on January 28, 2023 by SallyK

With thanks to Roland Denning for filming an extract of my story Defying Gravity and Paper Theatre performance in 2018. Roland added the sound effects. An almost disappeared copy of a family photo.  My elegant older sister (now dead) on … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and more Nottingham connections

Posted on November 30, 2022 by SallyK

Recently I visited Nottingham, had a very positive meeting with a representative of Nottingham Castle to discuss plans for running writing/comic strip workshops at the Castle, explored the Castle tunnels and stayed with an old primary school friend and his … Continue reading →

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Christopher Kindberg

Posted on September 1, 2022 by SallyK

My dear younger brother Christopher Kindberg died in London on 31st July, and was buried in Snowdonia on the 31st August 2022. Here we are in happier times.  Christopher is on the far right with my lovely little sister M, … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and the death of a brother

Posted on August 14, 2022 by SallyK

Early on Sunday 31st July my dear brother Christopher died. He was in hospital for three months, at University College Hospital and the Neurological hospital in London.  I read to him and held his hand when I visited over the … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and the Arthur Spooner portrait

Posted on January 30, 2022 by SallyK

In the early 2000s I visited my mother with my daughter and asked to see her large portrait, painted by Nottingham artist Arthur Spooner, whose painting of Goose Fair I mention in the last blogpost. This portrait, blotchy with damp, … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s notes about her childhood in Nottingham

Posted on December 8, 2021 by SallyK

This seems to be a recurring theme (far too often?) in notes for my graphic mystery/memoir. From the age of three I occasionally stayed at my grandmother’s house in Nottingham, periods coinciding with my mother disappearing, then turning up with … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s work in progress/identity

Posted on August 25, 2021 by SallyK

These are name tapes I had made for my mother when she was in her 90s and living in a nursing home.  Apart from being shocked when she attempted (three or four times) to strangle me – I tried not … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s notes (possibly for her mystery/memoir)

Posted on April 9, 2021 by SallyK

UNDERGROUND From the Nottingham Caves Survey February 2011 http://nottinghamcavessurvey.org.uk/mycave.htm  One of the major goals of the project is to assess the archaeological importance of Nottingham’s caves. Some are currently scheduled monuments and are of great local and national importance. Some … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s Stranger, a work in progress (pencil roughs)

Posted on January 29, 2020 by SallyK

Pencil roughs for Stranger, a work in progress, a mystery/memoir in comic strip form.  It’s moving slowly, but moving at least …

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