The man wore purple. He teased and joked with his audience. He was perhaps the most gifted musician that ever walked the face of this earth. Nah, I’m not talking about that Prince fella (although I did quite like him too.) I’m talking about another chappie who happens to be linked to royalty. Well, only […]
The Industrialisation of Words? And a Revolution.
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 […]
Bookish But NEVER Boring…
Reporting back from the promise in my previous blog – to expose the kiddywinks to those Public Information films that so many of us were nurtured with in post-war Britain, I have to say that I am rather disappointed. We watched many – and the general consensus was “Freaky! Creepy!” or “well you never took […]
Comic Remedies
….Part 7 (Dictated to me by small, guest blogger/daughter.) “My mum said that I can have the last blog where we talk about the street children in Namibia.The very last thing we did that day – on the day when all of these pictures were taken – after we gave the children all of the […]
Top Shelf with Small Elf
“Mummy why has that lady got her bare bum stuck in the air?” This was the reaction of a certain 4 year old when faced with one of the more unsavoury tabloid front covers. To be fair to the woman in question, her bent over backside which pointed at the camera actually wasn’t bare. If […]