This week, Johanna Anderson put out a tweet asking if anyone wanted to join them in Birmingham for a court hearing regarding libraries. As it happened, I was able to arrange my schedule to be able to attend. To be completely honest, I wasn’t exactly sure what the hearing was …
On Friday, July 1st I had the honor of spending the day with director of the Pop Up Festival Dylan Calder. With a sponsored train ticket from London Midlands, I was able to see three amazing authors as they inspired 3 different classes from 3 different schools at 3 different events in …
Yesterday, I went to my library to donate some books (not to the library, but to the Friends of Bridgnorth Library for a book sale we have scheduled soon). As I was running this errand on the way to Rainbows, I really didn’t have much time to stop but was so grateful I …
Following the success of last years #AskACurator day, Jim Richardson and his team have launched AskACurator.com this week. This fabulous resource has striped the restrictions from Twitter and allows in-depth answers to the many questions asked on the #AskACurator Day. I’ve been having a play as although I love IT, …
Manchester Museums and Galleries Partnership in Education Programme ran from 2004-2010. I first came across this project from Twitter and asked to be kept in the loop when the final report was completed. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much, or to be remembered but luckily, Louise Sutherland @lsutherland, the Learning Development …
When we found out we were going to be in London for the Children’s Laureate, I contacted Ian, the Manager at my absolutely favorite museum in the world (Natural History Museum – NHM) and asked if we could meet up. I hadn’t an agenda, or fact, a clue as to what I was going to …
My daughter Charlotte was one of four kids chosen by Book Trust to be invited to Children Laureate announcement after she wrote an email nomination (she nominated Nick Sharratt but Julia Donaldson, ala Gruffalo, won). From that, we had a heads up that Ed Vaizey was going to be …