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Extreme reading No 2

I’ve just spotted this on The Fidra Blog, who in turn borrowed it from Steve Augarde’s blog.  Enjoy!


 Steve Augarde, by the way, is author of the Various trilogy and, when I looked at his website, I realised he also wrote The Tractor Factory, Lifeboat to the Rescue and a number [...]

Extreme reading

I’m sure you’ve all heard of extreme ironing…

 
 
 

 
 
 
What lengths we have to go to to get boys to read.

 

Fidra books

There are a couple of recent posts on Fidra books that may be of interest to any EduBuzz or Edinburgh based readers. 
The childrens’ writer  Steve Augarde  is visiting the shop  “on Thursday 8th May at 7.30pm to talk about the joys and problems of writing for children and young adults and to give plenty of practical advice on how [...]

Mother at Large

Mother at Large is becoming a book!  As an older mother myself, I’m well impressed.  And on that note (the older mother one) I’m contemplating running a sweepstake on the number of people who comment on my grandchildren when the boys come to visit me in hospital this week.  Always assuming they come to visit, of [...]

Those Deathly Hallows

I was reading the new Harry Potter at breakfast the other day when GP2 took it off me, saying “You shouldn’t be reading that. You should be revising!”.  Too true unfortunately.  Surely three years can’t have whizzed by quite so fast?  I’m sure it was only last year that I did that much loathed 2 [...]

Surveys old and new

We had the first meeting to organise this year’s Haddington triathlon the other night.  With all the new building that has gone on in Haddington in recent years and associated changes to road layouts, we have decided to alter the run route this year to separate the cyclists and runners at a few dangerous bottlenecks.  [...]


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