Sun, Sea and Scarborough

I have just got back from three great days by the sea. First i was in Keyingham, which is by Withernsea by the sea and then i went to Scarborough, to Overdale Primary school. I stayed over in a B and B and got up really early because the sun was shining and i wanted to walk on the beach. It was fantastic. If only the sun shone a bit more!!! I was just listening to the waves and i got into the the rhythm of it all and i wrote....I hear the waves upon the shore, i hear this sound and nothing more, just the waves ebb and flo, in they come and out they go....which sounds like a poem written by a bloke with a big beard about 100 years ago!!! But on Scarborough beach i wrote this one...well i didn't write it, it just sort of popped up in my head....

I saw a man
a bloke like me
and he was talking
to the sea

He was standing there
having a chat
talking about this
talking about that

He looked serious
he wasn't playing
i wondered what
the waves were saying

I thought it was strange
a little bit weird
but when i looked again
he'd disappeared.....

On scabby beach i saw this bloke going out in a little tatty old fishing boat. I watched as he got further and further away on the sea until he was just a little teenyweeny dot on the horizon. I thought wow, imagine doing that everyday. All out there on the sea all on your own. I mean all i do for a living is read poems out in schools. This guy gets on his boat and takes his life in his hands and he does it everyday. But maybe being a poet is a bit like being a fisherman. We both try and catch things like fish and ideas and we both wait for a good thing to turn up. He works with the waves i work with the words. Hey c'mon lets ride this wordwave together!!!!

Headstands Down The Loo

I was in a staffroom in a school the other day, trying to nick a Kitkat and i saw a book on disgusting things. I looked in it and i learnt that a slugs bum is behind its head!!! Behind its head!! Holy malonie!! Imagine if we were built like that, i mean how would you use the toilet?? You'd have to do headstands down the loo??

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!!!!!! Hello by the way to any slugs who are reading this!!!

WORLD BOOK DAY 2011

Today was World Book Day which is like Pancake Day but without the pancakes and the syrup, maybe we should sprinkle sugar over books, see if it sweetens them up a bit!! Books for breakfast anyone??? I was in a great school in the middle of nowhere in Langton up in North Yorks. It is by an old ruined church called Kirkham Priory which is by a river. it was a lovely place so i stopped and had a cheese butty. Butty me up big!! The school was great fun. There are only 86 people who go to this school - lots of the girls wanted to be horse riders when they finish school- and i think i talked to every single one of them. It was doozy. Yesterday i was in another brilliant school called The Gleddings Prep school in Halifax, where i grew up. Its always wicked going back to my old home town. THANKYOU everyone for a supa dupa day!! I hope you all had a great World Book Day and that you keep on reading and enjoying books!! READ ON BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!!

By the way, my son Ben won a prize for the Best Dressed Book Character at his school. He went as Robinson Crusoe, with a torn shirt and a toy knife tucked into his belt and everything!! Well done Benny Boy!!!