Brown brown-noses toffee-nose Tory |
Taking his lead from B.liar, Gordon Brown has had the same strange compulsion to confess to the nation his love of Margaret Thatcher.Like B.liar, Brown's love of the grim-faced corpse-like milk-snatch...
Posted by Jon Blake on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:37:00 PST |
Peace and Love out Oct 18 - House of Fun being re-branded |
The next House of Fun spectacular comes out on October 18th - it's called "Stinky Finger's Peace and Love Thing" and features the great housemates having fun with a gruesome hippy rock festival toilet...
Posted by Jon Blake on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:11:00 PST |
Margaret Clark RIP |
Really sorry to hear of the death of Margaret Clark, children's book editor, whose obit was in the Guardian today. Margaret gave me my first break in publishing, after another editor at the Bodl...
Posted by Jon Blake on Fri, 18 May 2007 10:13:00 PST |
Holiday Mania and Jordi in Feb 10th double success! |
After five weeks at the University Hospital of Wales in intensive care, then high dependency, then the nursery, Jordi was finally given his marching orders after his weigh-in on Feb 10th, and comes ho...
Posted by Jon Blake on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:39:00 PST |
Why I won't forget January 8th, 2007 |
Last night I was woken at 1.30pm by Natalie, my partner. Her waters had broken - two months ahead of schedule. Five and a half hours later she gave birth to a 4lb 2oz baby boy, with the he...
Posted by Jon Blake on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:18:00 PST |
Blair's latest freebie and when I looked down on Harold Wilson |
So Tony Blair has been caught out taking another freebie holiday from one of his celebrity friends. This surprises nobody. Nor it is any surprise to find that his host is yet another self-aggrandizing...
Posted by Jon Blake on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:18:00 PST |
An encounter with Bono |
Blinding Light an encounter with BonoSound of toilet flushing, door opening, RONNO whistling. Whistling stops as footsteps enter. Sound of zip and flowing liquid. RONNO It's you. BONO Y'...
Posted by Jon Blake on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:09:00 PST |
Holiday Mania At The House of Fun out January 19th! |
"Holiday Mania At The House of Fun", the fourth book in my House of Fun series for juniors (25,000 sales so far) comes out on January 19th. Besides other things, the story features Icky and Bryan bein...
Posted by Jon Blake on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:57:00 PST |
I am awarded a great honour |
After living in Cardiff for twenty years, being published by almost every major publisher and selling over a quarter million books, the Welsh Academi (Arts Council) has finally got round to offering m...
Posted by Jon Blake on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:22:00 PST |
Everything What I Wrote and Also the Proper Jobs I Done (i.e. my cv!) |
PRODUCTIONS AND PUBLICATIONSTelevision ScriptsTodd and Blod - ten animation scripts for Curriculum Bites, teaching creative writing skills (BBC, 2002).Life - play for English Express (BBC, 1995) - sh...
Posted by Jon Blake on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:18:00 PST |
