It wasn’t so much a White Christmas as an Ice Christmas. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. As a country, we’re obviously not very used to dealing with serious ice, but what I saw on the 23rd and 24th of Christmas was bordering on farce. Circumstances had brought the family and I to Navan for bit of last…
Okay, it’s true. You can’t take chances with explosives. In the wrong hands they can be, you know . . . dangerous. But this sign was spotted by a Weird-Wide News roving reporter on a shelf in Marks & Spencers today. The shop says it’s illegal for them to sell Christmas crackers to children because of a law that…
Suspicious robotic gardener and plant activity.
He has become an old friend. And though I can sometimes stumble or struggle when I first go back to an illustration style I haven’t used in a while, it doesn’t happen as much with Mad Grandad. Perhaps it’s because I’ve drawn him hundreds, if not thousands of times, both for the books and in sessions. Interesting then, that…
Sometimes I look back over my week (or for the purposes of this blog, the last twelve days) and I find it hard to remember what filled all that time. I know I had a couple of really good sessions with kids and parents in Clara Library in Offaly on the 18th. The rest of that week is a…
The National Campaign for the Arts, CBI’s Digital Publishing Seminar and Waterstones and the discount war.
As some children may be aware, it is Halloween. On Saturday night, Weird-Wide News received reports of ghosts, ghouls, zombies, vampires and other vile creatures stalking the streets of Ireland. Some fairies and princesses were spotted too, though they may not have lasted too long out in that chaos, magic wands or no magic wands. Houses need protection on…
Despite not having any events since my two laddish sessions in Lucan library last week, I’ve still been struggling to catch up on work. The car’s had to go in for some major work. Thanks to the trucks serving the M3 roadworks, the mutant pot-holes they cause along the back-roads in Meath have torn up no less than five…
It is the mission of the Weird-Wide News to protect the country – and young readers – from strange and supernatural threats. I will be using my network of contacts across the country to keep a watch out for news of anything out-of-the-ordinary. Not long ago, Old Mother Klepto was spotted hanging from a ceiling in Gortjordan school in…
How we’re living with technology, and how it’s evolving instead of us.