Friday 27 August 2010

Top Tent Terrific Tent Trip

Just come back from a camping trip to Ripley in North Yorkshire. Ripley is famous for its castle and its fantastic ice cream. Here are the holiday highlights...
1. All of it.
2. The sunshine on Sunday.
3. Going for a early morning walk with Benny Boy and seeing rabbits and rainbows.
4. Going to Brimham rocks. If you haven't been, go there NOW!!!!
5. Watching the full moon nearly every night.
6. Looking at the Chinese lanterns.
7. Watching a big red hot air balloon float past right above us.
8. Meeting the pigs at breakfast. They were called Barbara, Prudence, Emma and Matilda. If you had a pig what would you call it??
9. Watching other people getting mad trying to put up their tents.( shouldn't laugh but i do!!)
10.Feeding the ducks and watching them fight!!!

Saturday 21 August 2010

Big Shout For Bradford Libraries!!!

Its been a busy old week. I have been all over Bradford, doing my thang in the libraries. Yeah man!!!!I have been into 15 of them!! Standing up and reading your own poems out in public libraries is always interesting because you never know what you are going to get. I am used to strange looks!!I must have had every different kind of audience over the years. I have done gigs where no -one has turned up and done gigs where everyone in the world seems to be in the same room. Bradford was good though, here are the highlights.... The stinkbomb in Keighley (Pooo), the mobile in Cullingworth, the heated biscuit debate in Holme Wood and the bucket chair in Baildon!! All good stuff. Now i am going camping in a big field somewhere, to sit and stare at the stars, eat Hobnobs and dream up some new poems......See yuz later brothers and sistras!!!!

Tuesday 17 August 2010

Another Mobile Poem

Here is another poem from the crazy mobile library in Bradford. Whoever thinks that libraries are quiet and boring wants to try this library!!!

Alisha, Alisha
that's my name
singing and dancing
is my game

I like animals
monkeys are the best
i wanna be a zookeeper
you'll be impressed

Pizza and ice cream
is my favourite tea
especially if its just
Luke and me

I am a tomboy
and a cool ice skater
my poem is finished now
so see you later

Another poem written on a bus in Bradford. You really can write poems anywhere!!!

Poems on the Mobile

It is the 17Th of August. I am in a place called Cullingworth.I am sat on the mobile library bus with two crazy people writing poems about everything. One of these people is called Lash and J+G. We have written some poems. Here is one...

My name is JB Brown
you will often see me shopping in town
Jayden Smith is a good looking guy
his face is sweet like an apple pie

Chicken Korma that will do me
i think I'll have it for my tea
In the Crown of the girls
i am the jewel.

I go to Excape
with my snowboard
and in the summer
we go abroad

I wanna be a dentist
with my drill
Jaydens dads cool
he's called Will

This is my poem
it can't be beat
one more thing Jayden
I've got nice feet!!!!


Wow, a poem written on a bus in Bradford!!!!

Friday 13 August 2010

Jaws - Even The Music Is Scary

Today i watched a film i watched years ago. It called JAWS and its about a dentist, no its not really, its about a shark, a great white shark. Great white sharks are called that because they are great and white and er... sharks. My sons Lilly and Rose, sorry, Ben and Jack watched it and Ben said that even the music at the beginning is scary. He's right. It is. The music goes like this....Bumbum, bum bum, bumbumbumbumbumBUMBUM. That's a lot of bums. Jaws is a great film though. And its not even about bums. Whats that all about????????

Saturday 7 August 2010

That Bloke Called Tom

Today was a really cool day. I got locked in a fridge. No i didn't, just being daft. I walked on the canal towpath for about 7 miles, from a place called Sowerby Bridge to a place called Todmorden. It was a bit drizzly and wet. Well you don't get dry drizzle do you?? Drizzle is like baby rain. I got attacked by two geese ( Dave and Bob) who hissed and honked like mad and then ran at me. Maybe they have read my books and don't like them. I fought them off with my rucksack. I felt like Indiana Jones. Then I got really close to an heron. I could almost touch it. Herons are big bird who like paddling about in water. you can always tell if they are there cos you can see their towels on the riverbank. Then this heron, who i think was called Malcolm, flew off, i think he had a train to catch. Herons are great though. When Big Malc flew off he looked like one of those dinosaur birds, a Terry Dactill, i think they're called. Then i went to a cafe in Todmorden to meet my old mate Tom Palmer. Tom writes books, sometimes two at the same time about football. He writes the Football Detective books about this detective who, er.. likes football. I only get to see Tom about once a year cos he is all over the place like me, going into schools and dong stuff like that. He showed me his fancy new iPhone. I was so impressed i had to buy some cake. Then i walked home. No goose attack this time. Bob and Dave had gone shopping in town.

Hey, this is my 50th blog entry!!! Lets celebrate!! Time for more cake!!!

Monday 2 August 2010

August

You wouldn't think it
looking out of the window
at clouds the colour of unwashed undies
but it is August

It really is,
August
the time for butterflies and B-B-Q's
and sunny days and orange juice

We should be picnicing
by the sea
stuffing our faces with crisps and pop
these summer days will never stop

This is a summer i'll never forget
just tell me, has it started yet??