Everyone in our house enjoys World Book Day. Even more so this year! The 5 year old’s school requested him to dress up as a character from his favourite book (disappointing me somewhat…I was hoping that he wanted to go as something rather literary, rather serious – such as Aslan the Lion, but no….bloody Spiderman. […]
The Book Has Left The Building…
It’s finally up there for people to buy. My first fiction book. You can find it on Amazon here. I allowed myself a small, self-indulgent moment when the first dribblings of tweets and publicity trails arrived. I felt good about the fact that I’m honestly not out to make money from this book. It’s always […]
All we want for Valentine’s Day is…
Since my daughter reached the ripe old age of 9, I’ve been doing my best to fully empower her and to facilitate a greater sense of independence (which can also read as ‘get her out of my way every now and then so that I can crack on with my own stuff.’) One way of […]
A Flat Head? EJ Howard, writing and the waterways…
One of our local librarians managed to push aside the fear of her own redundancy in order to try and engage with me. There I was. Wild eyed and raddled mother of second, newborn baby. Desperate for something both entertaining and intelligent to get me through the wee small hours of brain and boobie-overdrive boredom… […]
Mandela – Connecting with the past…
In the late 80’s I was a very politically aware teenager. But it was more about the miner’s, Thatcherite travesties, the threat of student loans… BBC coverage of Soweto uprisings, talk of apartheid, of an old chap who had been in prison for some god-awful amount of years because he felt he was equal to […]
Dennis Ain’t No Angel…
For many reasons (one of them being the inherent verbal diarrhoea prevelant amongst the other three family members) my youngest doesn’t often attempt a complicated conversation with the rest of us. But the other day, the 5 year old confided in me. A fear of rather deep theological concerns: 5 yr old: Mummy – I’m […]
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