“Exciting and unpredictable…”
“With whimsical imagery, Patrick’s imaginative novel is entertaining, stimulating and captivating.”
The Book Review Directory.
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Editorial Review – The Sandbox
“Exciting and unpredictable…”
“With whimsical imagery, Patrick’s imaginative novel is entertaining, stimulating and captivating.”
The Book Review Directory.
See the full review here:
Editorial Review – The Sandbox
After a mysterious impact in the dry Oklahoma landscape, three teenagers discover a world where they can do anything they want. Anything at all: Play. Explore. Fly. Destroy. But as a ripple of consequences impact on reality, Sonny, Isla and Dan realise this is far from a game. Do they now have the power to change the real world? Because if they do, they know exactly what they want to do first… Continue reading
For my daughter (Age 6), nothing much beats cuddling up with her dad on the sofa watching My Little Pony. Most of her previous favourite TV shows left my brain bleeding and numb but, like most dads, I was only there for a snuggle.
Long ago I perfected the art of pretending to be interested in something I wasn’t by nodding occasionally and laughing when she did. (This also works well with mothers and wives…). Continue reading
“Hi, what did you learn at school today?”
“We did maths.” (Ava, age 6)
“Great, so what’s 7 add 9?”
“But daddy, we’ve only done 10s and 6s today.”
…”and daddy is a Leprechaun,” said Ava (6)
It’s true. The children always wake up my wife and not me. They do this in the usual ways: standing really close to her and whispering “mummy”, “mummy”. Why do they do that? I mean whisper. What’s the point of whispering if you’re trying to wake someone up? or they cough quietly or they play their Ace card: sob quietly.
Anyway, so why do the children never come to my side of the bed and wake me up? Continue reading
During half term, my daughter (age 6) got to stay up a little longer than usual and while I was out the room managed to watch a few minutes from the beginning of the vampire movie Twilight. She’s always had a soft spot for romantic films and is regularly hooked by teen romances and even grown up films like The Proposal and Grown Ups. Continue reading