Blog in France

There was a meeting at Ruadhri’s school Tuesday night so that we parents could get a look at the new teacher and hear what she plans to do to/with our kids this year. I’ve already had a minor skirmish with her over pochettes plastiques in the form of notes to...

First up, great excitement on the book front. Do please give Books Are Cool a quick look. You’ll see that I’ve published a free book on Smashwords, now that I’ve finally got to grips with the formatting required to upload your material to the Meatgrinder that converts it.  So grab...

I was writing a blog about packing for going away to Uni, since that is what our Benj is busily not doing at the moment and he should be, but this arrived in the latest batch of email. Here is the superb cover artwork for Heads Above Water, my forthcoming...

OK, what fruit is being described in this eighteenth-century snippet: “A fruit, vulgarly called an open arse; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that it is never ripe till it is as rotten as a turd, and then it is not worth a fart.” If it’s any...

I’ve discovered rather late in the day that it’s wool week. It will end on 11th September, so I’m only getting in on the act with 48 hours to go. Prince Charles has been instrumental in getting Wool Week underway. He began a campaign for wool in January 2010, to...