Monthly Archives: May 2011
Old Trafford: a review
Like many a tale, oft told, Lee Clark’s ’The 2011 Play-Off Final’, his story of Huddersfield Town’s 2010-2011 campaign to get out of the League of Quagmire and into the Kingdom of Championship began well but had an unsatisfactory ending. It had all the right … Continue reading
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Deja Vu
Now that my blog entries are much easier to scroll down I’ve spent a few minutes re-reading earlier entries. I clicked on ‘May 2010′ to find out what I was doing this time last year and I was in Kiev … Continue reading
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Secrets
There’s a lot of stuff in the media at the moment about ‘super injunctions.’ These are court orders taken out by an individual or group to prevent something personal becoming public. Usually the people taking them out are celebrities or footballers. As I … Continue reading
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New Look Blog
Hi! Do you like my new-look blog? I hope its now easier to navigate and to find old posts. I deliberately haven’t added tons of links to the side bar. Basically I’ve focused on my two areas of interest … Continue reading
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The Cool Kids of Coventry part 2: at Sacred Heart
After a scrummy school lunch of jacket potato, beans, salad, fruit and ice cream at Holbrooks Primary it was a trip across the city to Sacred Heart. Here I was met with a sea of blue as children from Sacred Heart, St Gregory’s and … Continue reading
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The Cool Kids of Coventry part 1: at Holbrooks Primary
Wow! I had a brilliant time in Coventry today. Joy Court, the Learning Resources Manager for Coventry School Libraries Service, played a blinder in fixing me up with a visit to Holbrooks Primary in the morning. Their school hall managed to squeeze … Continue reading
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Denbighshire Writing Squad
I had a great day yesterday at Ruthin Library with the Denbighshire Writing Squad. I’m so pleased that, despite the cutbacks, Denbighshire Library Services has been able to continue this incentive. As usual, the standard of writing the children produced … Continue reading
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Today I will be mostly…
… watching football. The team I support, Huddersfield Town, are through to the League 1 play offs. This means they have to play Bournemouth FC at their gaff today and Bournemouth FC play us at ours on Wednesday. If we … Continue reading
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We’re Still the Dream team, Right?
Yey! Book 9 in Girls FCis out now. Buy it! Read it! It’s amazing and I should know because I wrote it! Gemma Hurst is the outstanding player on the team; the one with that inate talent that everyone can … Continue reading
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Back to work…
I really enjoyed the long break over Easter that continued with the Royal Wedding and extended into the May Day Bank Holiday yesterday. The news of Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of the US Navy Seals added an unexpected and … Continue reading
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