Having spent the last week on a writing retreat with first Impressions...
I have a bit of a thing for superheroes, growing up I greedily read Spider-man and Spawn comics and the relatively recent spate in superhero blockbusters that are fairly faithful to the genre's universe has got me terribly excited. Superheroes reflect what is best in humanity and...
Paraphrasing Toni Morrison - Poets write good prose, they just cut up the lines. Many talk of "headspace" when writing - I have done myself. There is a belief that it takes one "Headspace" to write poetry and another "Headspace" to write prose etc. I have...
So I'm scared of leeches, mosi's and blood sucking in general. Whilst at Khoa Sok National park we reluctantly prepared for a jungle trek- reluctantly because leeches were said to be common in this part of rainforest, we were not bothered about the marauding elephants,...
Last year I held a survey online and at schools I visited for the most popular title for my debut children's poetry collection with Frances Lincoln Children's Books. The results came in and WEREWOLF CLUB RULES came out on top. I want to say a...
[youtube=http://youtu.be/6eJJHIkddcU] Mimosa Pudica also known as "shy plant", "Touch-me-not" and "I died, I lived" I was totally awed when shown this weed on our stay at Mindful Farm in the North of Thailand. Moving plants have always held a fascination, I think ever since seeing Little...
Snorkelling in deep water around Tatchai island- a beautiful white sanded place. We've both faced some deep water fears on this trip including some pretty hairy Speed Boat and Speed Catamaran trips across the Gulf of Thailand. Being purely pool swimmers the idea of being...
There are these tiny crabs on the beaches of Thailand that scurry spherical parcels of sand back and forth from their burrows creating amazing sand 'crop circles'. The crabs are tiny and so easy to miss but as I walked the sand today I caught...
"As we jot down ideas, they shift and grow, spawning new ideas...
[caption id="attachment_707" align="alignnone" width="500"] The Floating Market - Damoen Saduak[/caption] It's our 8th day in Bangkok and the souvenirs on offer are still coming thick and fast. We've more or less resisted the 'Fans that turn into hats', the 'Packs of Spices' and 'The pencils that...