Monthly Archives: April 2010

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →