Tag: brain
At the auction
It was just a simple chest of drawers in the auction but waiting for the number fourteen to come up got my brain in a fuddle. It was so close to the beginning of the auction I was worried I might miss it. Number fourteen was announced and offered at £100. Nobody went for it.…
How to get your son to University in ten years time
Do you have a son and harbour ambitions for them to go to University in ten years time and wonder what you can do to help? The answer is simple – make them read, for goodness sake! More particularly, make them read books. Of course, as a children’s author, I’m bound to say that, aren’t…
I love it when a plan comes together!
I’ve been telling a story about this little girl in schools and libraries for about ten years now. The story has changed and evolved in that time. I thought I had it cracked when I rewrote it around a pop-up gimmick I invented. But the banks crashed, the recession hit and it proved too expensive.…