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Archive for June, 2014

After a tiring but fabulously fun week of school visits the final two days began with a slightly confusing drive which, thanks to the wonders of sat-nav, took us on a magical mystery tour round the centre of Brighton to a school that turned out to be only 100 yards from our hotel. Once we’d reached St Paul’s (possibly via Inverness) we set up for…


Day three began with a muffin (tasty) and the Bookmobile almost getting trapped in an underground car park due to a faulty exit gate (less enjoyable). Thankfully Beth managed to negotiate our release with a disembodied voice on an intercom or else I may have had to conduct my first ever school visit over a phone from a car park. Once we had a taste…


My favourite song from the classic musical “My Fair Lady” is at its start.  Lowly flower girl Eliza Doolittle is feeling rather glum about her impoverished situation in the cold environs of a Victorian Covent Garden.  However it’s not long before her fellow Cockneys rally together to cheer her up. “The missus wants to open up the castle in Capri” sings a chipper fellow Covent…


Day two and the sun was shining as we skipped and danced like carefree children from our hotel to the Bookmobile. Okay, that’s only half true. I’m not a “morning person” and as a flabby 40-year-old I’d probably do myself a mischief if I tried to skip or dance anywhere. But it was definitely sunny, which was something of a relief as ever since we…


It’s a long way from Fife to Brighton – 380 miles as the crow flies. Unfortunately we weren’t travelling by crow, we were travelling by people carrier, so it was closer to 515 miles. The other problem with non-crow based transport is that someone has to drive. Thankfully – for me at least – I wasn’t allowed behind the wheel (they said it was for…


This June the Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour will be travelling to the (relatively) burning hot beaches of Brighton and Hove with award-winning Scottish picture book author Chae Strathie. We will be visiting ten schools for a week of fantastic events for primary school pupils as well as doing a one off event at the wonderful Book Nook for families on Thursday 19 June. Over…


Have you seen some of the advertising that’s going on for Father’s Day?   At the risk of sounding like Victor Meldrew:  “I don’t believe it!” We’re not talking about a furry dice for dad to put in his car or a pair of shorts to wear at the beach on this summer’s family holiday.   We’re talking about three hundred and ninety nine pounds for an…


For anyone under the age of 15 it might come as quite a shock to know that there was a time when we didn’t have Sky+, TiVo, iPlayer, 4oD, Netflix or any of the range of methods available nowadays to watch TV when it suits you. It might also come as a shock to anyone aged under 30 to know that there was a time…


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