We have had several human additions to our family recently. Invariably, the announcements of their arrival are followed quickly by, “Any name yet?” Guessing games ensue with suggestions offered generously. Suitable names might relate to parents or grandparents, or places where the child may have been conceived or even linked to football teams or...
The weekend of 27th-29th January 2018 is the RSPB’s Big Garden Bird Watch. In preparation for the weekend, RSPB Liverpool is holding an event at the Palm House in Sefton Park, Liverpool on Sunday 21st January. I will be telling Barney’s story, signing books and selling copies of ‘Rock on Barney’. You will also...
Roald Dahl famously had his writing hut at Great Missenden where he could weave his stories of phantasmagorical characters and situations. Sitting there, he could forget the outside world and concentrate fully on writing. He referred fondly to it as “my little nest, my womb”. J.K. Rowling’s inspired Harry Potter and Hogwarts stories...
How would you summarise you? What comes to mind? If you played a word association game about yourself, what words would you use? Physical attributes often come to mind first. Height, hair and eye colour which may then be followed by personality traits. Are you friendly, sensitive, ambitious, funny, intelligent? Which adjectives would you...
