For any of you setting out on a summer hols car or train journey, we have written a very interactive children’s book to help them through the journey. It’s a mixture of quizzes, observation questions, guesssing games, memory tests, etc. It’s really for primary school age kids - say 6 to [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Happy Christmas! I’m sitting up with a sore back, and waiting for the tablets to kick in, I passed the time by looking at the Christmas cards we’ve been sent. We all put them up, but do we really LOOK at them?? So - and how sad is this - I thought I’d just do [...]
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Reading: Raise your game, by Peter Shaw, but selfishly, only because I get a mention…. Watching: went to see The Proclaimers last night, at the Apollo in Manchester. Brilliant, as usual. Listening: As you may know, I’m a fan of ‘House MD’, and I think the music they choose, particularly to close, is brilliant. I’ve tracked [...]
Sunday, October 11, 2009
As my most devoted fans will have realised, the supply of daily tracks dried up mid-September. This was entirely my fault, as I’d saved but not published them….! So the fault has now been rectified, and normal service has been resumed.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Overheard in conversation recently: “If you can manage to find a sentence that doesn’t begin with ‘I’, then get back to me…” - brilliant!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Caroline and I are taking a long weekend break in Guernsey, and I’m writing this from our hotel, the fabulous Fermain Valley hotel, at Fermain Bay….and the sun is actually shining!! Our main reason for being here - and you’d better be sitting down for this - is to see ‘Eddie and the Hotrods’. Caroline [...]
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Some of you may have already seen this, as it is doing the rounds via email. But if not, it’s well worth a read… Dear Mr Darling, Please find below my suggestion for fixing Britain’s economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the [...]
Sunday, July 25, 2010
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