Just in time for the next round of COP talks 🤦🏽‍♀️ it really shows that they couldn’t give a toss for the environment.

😢 I hope it didn’t create too much damage on the way down

I hope you didn’t lose any more trees this time.

I was absolutely gobsmacked to discover there were Charlie Kirk memorial services in several towns and cities in Aotearoa NZ at the weekend, including here in Kaitāia 😳 but sadly the right wing evangelical churches are well entrenched here, so I probably shouldn’t be so surprised.

Oh Sue, big hugs, I’m so sorry to hear this. She’ll live on in your hearts forever xxx

Just had another look at my shelves - Alan Garner, Nina Bawden, Steve Augarde’s The Various, Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, Cynthia Harnett, Elizabeth Laird, Madeleine L’Engle, John Masefield, TH White

Has he worked his way through Rick Riordan & John Flanagan’s books? Those should keep him going for a week or two surely! William Horwood’s Duncton Woods books would slow him down somewhat, very much of the Watership Down genre

At that age I was reading The Wizard of Earthsea books by Ursula K Le Guin, and Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence. Also anything by John Rowe Townsend, Geoffrey Trease, & Rosemary Sutcliffe - lots of historical fiction there

My share too! And we’re probably not alone, so some folk must be really stepping up 😳

Oh no, you poor thing. Gentle hugs, I hope you feel better soon xx

It’s one of those laugh or cry things; unfortunately self-entitled Brits are not the critically endangered species they ought to be by now.

Looking at my shelves now, not including any of the above, I own more than 5 of:
1. Sally Nicholls
2. Ursula K Le Guin
3. Terry Pratchett
4. Tamora Pierce
5. Diana Gabaldon
6. Philip Pullman
7. Jodi Taylor
8. Anne McCaffery
9. Richard Bach
10. Douglas Adams
And that’s not all!

I was a voracious reader and got through a hefty chunk of Holmfirth Library as well as anything I could get my hands in at school. John Rowe Townsend would probably be next on my list. Lots more authors I read 5 books of too.

The first 10 I could think of as a child, roughly chronological order:
1. Beatrix Potter
2. Roger Hargreaves
3. Rev W Awdry
4. Enid Blyton
5. Hugh Lofting
6. Michael Bond
7. Tove Jansson
8. Arthur Ransome
9: Noel Streatfield
10: Rosemary Sutcliffe
There were many more!