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  This is the English children's writer Julia Donaldson and German illustrator Axel Scheffler. Together they have produced several wonderful, well-written and eye-catching children's books that have also been transformed into charming short film versions. Of course, without Little Phoebe entering our lives, I would probably have never noticed their work. It has been rare a  privilege. There's an endearing innocence and quirkiness about the books they have created together I suppose that Ms Donaldson and Herr Scheffler's first major success in this field was "The Gruffalo" concerning a mythical woodland creature with "terrible tusks, terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws". The audacious mouse that The Gruffalo encounters also appears in a later sequential book titled "The Gruffalo's Child". Phoebe is very fond of that one and must have watched it twenty times. There's something quite magical about all of the...

 It was rather fine at lunchtime so helping to weed the pond wasn’t arduous or unpleasant  There was something rather nice working away alongside old friends and the space looked lovely when we had finished  Village leader Ian even saw a frog and As Nick brought the coffee , Bridget sorted out her “own” bara brith I was so sore after the exertion …..shows my age lol  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3iz6pqA

  I am lucky, living in Wales near the border as it’s only 29 minutes ! by car to Chester and only an hour or so from Liverpool.  Last night I bought tickets for A Thong For Europe at The Royal Court , now I knew what I was getting into ( the title somewhat gives away a degree of dumbing down) and I was right. Think of a Liverpudlian pantomime on steroids set against the backdrop of the City’s venture into Eurovision stardom and you may get the gist.  Writer Jonathon Harvey loves his grotesque, matriarchal characters and Lulu ( Lindi Germain) is not a stones throw from Linda Ha Hughes ( His Kathy Burke Character in Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie) she opens the show with a bang, when she gives a hilarious and foul mouthed eulogy for his mother in church , a mother who loved Eurovision and whose ghost will haunt her is she cannot scatter her ashes on the Eurovision stage. I think you are aware of the the level the musical is heading for from its opening moments and despit...