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The Handwriting Club with Sally Kindberg

Posted on October 15, 2026 by SallyK

Why handwriting? The next Handwriting Club is on October 15th at Swedenborg House – check out their website for times, tickets and my next event later this month.

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Sally Kindberg’s Hatch An Egg workshop at the Fitzrovia Fete 2026

Posted on August 18, 2026 by SallyK

A couple of weeks ago I encouraged participants of all ages to hatch an egg at this year’s Fitzrovia Fete in London.  Maybe with a surprise inside?  It was a draw, cut out and lift-the-flap kind of hatching, with a … Continue reading →

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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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Snowy

Posted on January 20, 2026 by SallyK

Years ago I worked part-time at a Camden bookshop, before having my first series of children’s books published by Grafton. The bookshop is long gone, its site now occupied by a Tortilla takeaway.My Saturday task was to cash up the … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and the House of Mysterious Objects

Posted on March 25, 2025 by SallyK

Another workshop event at Swedenborg House on April 16th. Check their site to register for a free ticket.  You could bring your own mysterious object to draw, although there are plenty of mysterious things in situ.  You could also could … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and the General Election

Posted on July 8, 2024 by SallyK

Drawn in haste (I was ill so drawing delayed) in the early morning of July 4th, spurred on by the efforts of The Comics Cultural Impact Collective, who encouraged comic strip creators to contact their MP-to-be.  Mine is now PM. … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and a glimpse of childhood

Posted on December 4, 2023 by SallyK

A glimpse of childhood, originally part of Stranger, a work-in-progress but quite possibly in another form or even another story.  Struwwelpeter was a big early influence.  And the Grimm Brothers.

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Sally Kindberg at the Fitzrovia Fete 2023

Posted on August 18, 2023 by SallyK

With thanks to all the Fitzrovia Fete visitors, who with my encouragement, pulled faces and/or drew them. This included newsreader and local resident Paddy O’Connell (who opened the Fete), and poet Jimmy Andrex amongst others.  There were musicians, more poets, … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg, Nottingham Castle and a work in progress again

Posted on July 13, 2023 by SallyK

Nottingham Castle often features in my stories. When a small child, I often had to stay in my grandmother’s house, one of whose cellars had a bricked up door, apparently leading to a network of tunnels honeycombing the nearby castle … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg and secret letters

Posted on December 3, 2022 by SallyK

Yesterday I went to see ‘Hidden Letters’ a film directed by Violet Du Feng about nushu, a secret calligraphic system invented and used by women in the nineteenth century (and probably even earlier) in rural China to communicate with and … Continue reading →

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