Wednesday 24 November 2010

Jack Dawsons Big Idea

I've just had some great news. I wrote a book a couple of years ago, not a poetry book, but a book book y'know called Jack Dawsons Big Idea and i have finally found a publisher for it. The publisher is called Tonto Books who are based up in Newcastle. The boss is a bloke called Big Stu or Little Stu if he is standing far away and he wants me to write not one, not two but three books in the same series starring Jack Dawson. The first book will be out next March followed by the second one in October. I'm dead chuffed with it all. The fact that some one wants to spend money on getting your own book out there is an amazing feeling really. it looks like I'm going to be busy. I'd better get scribbling away....

Diary Of A Whitby Kid

I went to the pictures the other day to see Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. I thought it was great, very funny. My sons have the books and i'd seen them lying around the place but i've never picked them up and read them.
I will now.
One of the characters is called Fregley and he looks like i used to look when i was a kid. AARGGHH!! In fact he looks a lot like i used to look. He's a bit smaller than i was but he had the ginger, curly hair, the glasses and all the rest of it. What a geezer he was. Fregley played like the goofy kid uncool kid that everybody takes the micky out of but i liked him a lot. Well i would do wouldn't i?
I like the title of the film as well. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, it sounds good and titles are important. I could write a book called Diary Of A Whitby Kid about this soft lad who goes to the East coast of Yorkshire for his holly jolly days.
Maybe not eh???

Sunday 21 November 2010

What Is A Bloke?

I've had some comments from the Cyber people in the USA. All Star wanted to know what a bloke was!!!!!! A bloke is a guy, a geezer, a chap, a man!! I suppose its a slang word. That Poetry Bloke!! That's me brothers and sistras!! and ta for all the great awesome like comments. Ta by the way means thanks before you ask. Keep smiling!!

Monday 15 November 2010

Cyber School USA

WOW!! WOW and WOW again!!

Today i did something that I've never done before. No i didn't wrestle an invisible camel or dance with a gaint man eating duck or eat a whole pizza in less than one minute. I spoke, via the wonder of the web, to a cyber school in Pennsylvania USA. The pupils, about 30 of them, could hear me talking from Huddersfield in England, as they sat in their rooms in America, 3000 miles away or something like that.
Amazing really innit?

We talked about sausages, ice cream and fish and chips as well as writing poetry and all that kind of stuff. It was ace to think we were talking across the ocean. Its something i have never done before and i really enjoyed it. A big THANK YOU to Deanna for setting all this up and to everyone who asked me great questions, oh and Elissa, i don't know the Queen but if i ever meet her I'll say hello for you!!! Cyber school rocks!!!!

Saturday 13 November 2010

Toxteth Tale Of Trousers

I'm in Toxteth library with Georgia, Chai, Darcy, Susan, Denise and Trisha. We have been talking about trousers and accents and pants and all that type of stuff. It was all part of something called Evolving English, which is a BIG BRITISH LIBRARY thing about collecting peoples voices. We talked about pants, undercrackers, kecks and different words for different stuff. It was really good or sick and awesome and boss. See ya la!!!

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Song After Song After Song

Today i was a human radio!! I was in a school in Bradford called St Edmunds Nursery School, speaking to young people aged 2-4. I normally work with pupils ages 5-11 so this was a bit different. i have been into this school before but it was still different!! They wanted me to play the guitar and sing silly songs all day, so that's what i did. I did 11 sessions through the day and must have wrote and played about 6 or 7 brand new songs that we made up in class!! It was ace. We wrote songs about Ben 10, the classroom and we wrote songs about each other. And then we sang and danced to them!! Yeehah!!!A BIG thanks and well done to everyone for a funny, creative, daft, day that was full of sparkle, madness, noise and ideas.

Now i just need to lie down in a dark room somewhere....

Friday 5 November 2010

I Heard The Rain Sing On Bonfire Night

When it rained on Bonfire night
i could have run and hid
instead i stood out in the rain
and this is what i did...

I listened to the raindrops
singing like a choir
falling out of a darkening sky
and sizzling in the fire

Bellybutton

What are bellybuttons
supposed to do
its just a little hole
in the middle of you

They
don't help to keep
your pants up
or fasten up your sweater

what about a belly zip?
yeah, thats better

Bionic Brian

Bionic Brian

Bionic Brian
is made of iron
there's nothing that he fears

But he complains
when it rains
cos sparks fly out of his ears!!

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Firewood and Mushy Peas

Its Plot Night this weekend or Bonfire night whatever you call it. I have actually seen the school that Guy Fawkes used to go to, its St Johns in York - one of the oldest schools in the country - and they don't do Bonfire night cos they don't burn old pupils!!! Anyway... i went to the woods today to get some wood for the bonfire that we have in the back garden. The woods is a great place. Its full of shadows and dark corners and it has a great musty, damp, earthy smell of fallen leaves and wet muck. Its great being in the woods during the day, its empty and kind of a bit scary but still good!!! I AM THE WOOD MAN!!! I got two big bags full of wood, then came home and started making the mushy peas. My Mum used to make these mushy peas that were like little green diamonds of taste and delight!!! Mum used to put some meat in there as well. The best ever!! The secret with mushy peas is to soak them for about twenty years, that makes them go all soft, squidgy and, er...mushy. (Great word Squidgy innit!! It wins the Word Of The Day Award) Can you believe that some people actually don't like mushy peas. I mean what is wrong with them!!! I have to go now cos i have to go to a dead serious place called Huddersfield University and talk to dead serious people about dead serious stuff. Maybe I'll just talk to them about mushy peas.

Monday 1 November 2010

Monkey On A Motorbike

I saw a monkey on a motorbike
whizzing down our street
he had big leather boots
on his little monkey feet

He had a little leather jacket on
all shiny, black and red
and a little monkey helmet
on his little monkey head

He did wheelies and tricks
and jumped off a ramp
he flew through the air
like a monkeybike champ

Then he rode off
and waved at me
the worlds greatest daredevil
chimpanzee