Sneaky snails and a great trickster tale

Do you have a trickster, a joker in you family? Someone who enjoys being a little bit devious? Well, The Great Race by Nathan Kumar Scott and Jagdish Chitara might just be the next book you could read with them. Within a few pages M realised that The Great Race is a story not unlike [...]

All you need is a stick

Things-I-have-learned-as-a-parent number 359: A walk for the sheer fun of it, in our local park or nature reserve, is never complete without a stick. The sooner the girls can find one which meets their ideals for the day the happier they are. A big one to lean on, a little one to become a wand, [...]

A few more words on slugs…

I meant to include this earlier in the week but it slipped my mind, so here today, is probably the funniest poem you’ll read all week – Slug by Matt Harvey (in his collection Where Earwigs Dare). SLUG low-born land mollusc high-impact intruder free-loader, sprout-spoiler meandering marauder disrespecter of my broad-beans’ border you’ve a one-track [...]

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