Monthly Archives: August 2010
Polish for beginners…
We had relatives from Poland over at the weekend. It was fun (if exhausting!) having tiny children around the house again. Dominik, on the left, is almost two and Zuzia almost six. The children and I communicated well enough through sign language … Continue reading
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Boxes
Please bear with me if the typsetting of the next few blogs seems a little weirder than normal. I’ve just had my new hard drive fitted on my computer and am now working on Windows 7 which is more sophisticated … Continue reading
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Mental Illness
I don’t know if ‘enjoying’ is the right word but I have been impressed by BBC3s ‘What is an adult?’ season. It’s taken some hard hitting issues and shown how young people are affected by them. As a children/YA author … Continue reading
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Accidental Friends and other near misses…
My YA book ‘Accidental Friends’ was mentioned in a blog last week. Go me! It was written by fellow children’s writer Catherine Johnson on the An Awfully Big Blog Adventure forum (a subsidiary of the Scattered Authors’ Society). While I was … Continue reading
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Match of Death August 9th 1942
On this day in 1942, FC Start played Flakelf at football in what became known as The Match of Death. FC Start, made up of players from Dynamo Kiev, were ordered by the Gestapo at half time not to beat … Continue reading
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Notts County 0 Huddersfield Town 3
And so a new season begins, the World Cup but a memory to be forgotten as quickly as possible (unless you’re Spanish). The sun shone down on Meadow Lane in Nottingham, home of Notts County. Newly promoted and hoping … Continue reading
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Lifelines…
Confucius I have spent this afternoon browsing the internet (or research as we used to call it back in the day) for ‘wise’ quotes my character can use at the beginning of each chapter. The device might not make the editing process but … Continue reading
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Can’t I Just Kick It?
Meet 9 year old Tabinda Shah. She’s excited because the Parrs are having a Halloween party (officially a team-building exercise) at Sweet Peas, her mum and dad’s garden centre. She’s less excited by her dad’s blinkered attitude to her football. Why can’t … Continue reading
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Can’t I Just Kick It?
Meet 9 year old Tabinda Shah. She’s excited because the Parrs are having a Halloween party (officially a team-building exercise) at Sweet Peas, her mum and dad’s garden centre. She’s less excited by her dad’s blinkered attitude to her football. Why can’t … Continue reading
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Bad Hair Day
Not a good day yesterday. My computer had been making weird clicking noises over the weekend but it seemed OK when I wrote in the morning. Disaster struck in the afternoon when the clicking re-commenced followed by the blue wall … Continue reading
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