Continuing my focus on library-adoration and generating more love affairs with the lit, in today’s blog I wanted to focus a bit more about the challenges facing the great British public when it comes to getting your mitts on a decent book. First of all – let’s start with the schools. Now, I realise that […]
Sharing the Love
Now this wasn’t planned, but my 100th blog post has ended up addressing the love of my life; Books. Reading. Writing. Otherwise known as literacy. But rather than wibbling on about why I’m so besotted with all of the above, instead, I’m going to kick off with a bit of Shock and Outrage (because hey, […]
70’s Kids; The Drifter, The Domesticated. And The Anti-Christ.
Post 2 – for ReadKirklees I’m interested in what people do or don’t believe – whether it’s matter of faith (or non-faith) or attitudes towards society and the world. Usually though, we only ever hear the views of the grown-ups; of them rattling on with their profoundities (and profanities if you’ve got a gob like […]
No Iron Age. No Iron Lady.
The Kid (aged 7) mooched into the room. He took one look at me and shrieked “Muvvah!” (yes…that’s how he refers to me – he listens non-stop to Just William audiobooks as read by Martin Jarvis.) And then he goes; “Hey, Muvvah! What on Erf are you DOIN?” I felt a little bit disgruntled. Knocked […]
We don’t need another (Yorkshire) Hero…
I’ve got plenty of plans to post more blogs about the pull of Disney, Marvel, DC Comics and their marketing prowess. About the guilty crimes that they should all atone for when it comes to failing to effectively combat gender stereotyping (especially that Disney crew…) but just for today – let’s have a bit of […]
Theft of a Feathery Friend
The greatest pleasure of having children is when they Achieve. With a capital A. When they come home with straight A’s, get into the ‘best school’ and then ‘choose’ that highly respected or financially lucrative career path that you’ve been not-so-subtly prepping them for. Ah yes. Nothing more rewarding than when you finally see the […]