An addendum to this post: I wrote it in Heathrow during my layover but the internet was so shit that I couldn’t upload photos. So, I’m now back in Vancouver, safe, sound, jetlagged, and reveling in memories. Here I am in Heathrow airport, with a longish layover till my flight to Vancouver. Flew in from […]
UK & Ireland Domination Tour – Part 5
This has been a whirlwind 30 hours or so. Yesterday I said goodbye to my lovely British publicist, Sarah, when we arrived in Manchester from Lytham St. Anne’s. She hopped off at Manchester central and I continued to the airport (that’s us, above, in Lytham St. Anne’s train station, including our cab driver’s shadow which […]
UK and Ireland Domination Tour – Part 4
I think I’ve used this analogy before, but here goes. When my husband was a little boy, and he was having a really really awesome day, he’d say, “I’d better eat some green peas.” Because he HATED green peas (they came out of a tin in Sweden at that time). And he felt he needed […]
UK & Ireland Domination Tour Part 3
It’s been a great couple of days. Yesterday I did a couple of school visits around Huddersfield (remember, it’s pronounced Oodersfield). This area is full of old mill towns, and really very beautiful. The school visits went well; not much different from Canadian school visits, except that they marveled at my odd accent. I was escorted […]
UK & Ireland Domination Tour Part 2
What an amazing couple of days. I managed to get through my talk yesterday at the CILIP YLG conference, and it went well I think. Librarians are a lovely, welcoming and forgiving bunch. I was disheartened to discover, however, that librarians in the UK are under fire (a true endangered species) even more so than […]
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