So, before Christmas, we took the kids to the National Concert Hall to see ‘The Snowman’. It was a great show, with the half-hour film as the main event, but also featuring the Spotlight Stage School doing some excellent renditions of Disney tunes – although there were a few strange choices, given the range they had to choose from….
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…
It’s a common complaint of mine, but there never seems to be enough time. While most people will be counting the shopping days to Christmas – or most kids will just be counting the days – I’m trying to squeeze in as many work hours as I can among all the other things I have to get done. The…
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…
Sneak preview of ‘The Vile Desire to Scream’ cover and what I’ve been up to lately.
It’s probably fitting that I was reading some of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories over Halloween, as he was truly the grandaddy of modern horror. Any secondary school student can tell you that writing in the nineteenth century was a little wordy and long-winded for modern tastes. But with no television, radio, cinema or console games, they had plenty…
The National Campaign for the Arts, CBI’s Digital Publishing Seminar and Waterstones and the discount war.