I received this message today on my blog about Oaklands Children's Home. In light of the recent revelations in Wales should he take the case further and if so how? What would you advise? Your response Read more [...]
The adoptive mother describes the child whom they'd taken some years earlier from Ethiopia as having grown into a person with a wild look in her eyes. It was like seeing an exorcist. This is immediately Read more [...]
I received a message that began “I’m shaking as I type all this as I haven't ever discussed with anyone else before.” He wrote his phone number and I called. Immediately. “Do you remember Mr Read more [...]
Today I introduced children's authors onto stage at Southbankcentre's Imagine Festival for Letterbox Live . Letterbox Live celebrates The Letterbox Club for which I am patron. Letterbox Club gets books Read more [...]
For young people who are in or from care a free creative holiday at Arvon in Devon. TEN PLACES LEFT. Read on then please share this post. If you are between the ages of 16 and 24 a careleaver Read more [...]
She Read As She Cradled You part of me Every day your history Every tomorrow your destiny Every growth your mystery Every mother wants a baby Like you Every laugh your personality Every Read more [...]
I've seen TV documentaries about adults searching for their parents and I made one myself but "So Close So Far Away" is the best of all. It was broadcast recently on Al Jazeera and made by Paul Sapin. Read more [...]
I’ve been attempting to write my thoughts on Nairobi and it’s like Juggling Jelly on a bouncy castle. I’ve started this paragraph an hundred times only to crawl out of it splattered with the sticky Read more [...]