Monthly Archives: April 2010
Downpatrick’s Sporting Heroes
Well, that was a busy and eventful four days! Four days in County Down helping with County Down Museum’s exhibition on ‘Sporting Heroes.’ My job was to help local schools produce a piece of writing on their sporting hero. Footballers predominated (Downpatrick, like … Continue reading
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Downpatrick’s Sporting Heroes
Well, that was a busy and eventful four days! Four days in County Down helping with County Down Museum’s exhibition on ‘Sporting Heroes.’ My job was to help local schools produce a piece of writing on their sporting hero. Footballers predominated (Downpatrick, like … Continue reading
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Huddersfield Town storm into the play-offs
Huddersfield Town beat Stockport County 6-0 at Stockport today which means we are assured of a position in the play-offs. The play-offs take place between teams who finish 3-6th in the league. The four teams (team pos 3 v team … Continue reading
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Fuzzy head…
Yesterday I had one of those unsatisfactory days when I didn’t seem to get anything done. My morning’s writing was bitty – chopping and changing dialogue then returning to the original that I started with – arghhhhhhhh. Nae bother, I thought … Continue reading
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Upton Primary, Northfield and Burntwood
The legends who are Reads United hit Yorkshire today. Tom Palmer and I were invited by Wakefield Schools Library Service to meet the KS2 pupils from three primary schools. How could we resist? I headed north. Tom headed south. Not … Continue reading
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New! Voting Buttons
Nobody can accuse me of not keeping my website up to date and interactive! First we had the penalty shoot out game, then the team picture screen saver to download and now… da-dah… you can vote. Don’t worry, I’m not … Continue reading
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A strange few days…
Polish card It’s been a strange few days, hasn’t it? The first televised debate between the three political parties ahead of the General Election took place on Thursday and suddenly the Lib-Dems are the new kids on the block. I … Continue reading
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Girls FC wallpaper
Calling all you Girls FC fans out there. You can now download this fabulous picture of my Parrs squad for free to use as your computer screen background. Click on the toolbar on my website when you open it at … Continue reading
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Leap into Books…
Ready to Leap into Books at Laisterdyke bring on the writers… I was at Laisiterdyke Business & Enterprise College in Bradford, West Yorkshire yesterday to take part in the Leap into Books project. Every Easter holiday for the past five … Continue reading
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Daffodils
Spring Following on from what I wrote yesterday about how sometimes poetry is more immediate than prose, I thought I’d choose something appropriate to make my point. Cheerful daffodils are everywhere right now so why not go for … The … Continue reading
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