Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Friday, 9 September 2011

Close encounters with children's writers, part 3

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In 1991 I was spending three weeks as a guest lecturer at the University of Reading. My good friend and colleague Tony Watkins mentioned, am...

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Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Q&A

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Pinched from my daughter's blog , pinched from someone else. Some of the questions are obviously asked – and supposed to be answered ...

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Three years in the system

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Today is exactly three years since I started my employment in Cambridge. This is what I wrote three years ago . I do remember the feeling of...

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

A veteran's memories

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I have just learned that my colleague and blog chum, the autodidact Philip Nel is replacing Jack Zipes as the editor of the Routledge seri...

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Tuesday, 30 August 2011

One ordinary day

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Yesterday was a bank holiday, and today I realised that summer is over because work-related emails have started arriving: meetings, inductio...

Monday, 22 August 2011

Book of the week: The Borrowers

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Last week I went to see the new Japanese animation, Arrietty , based on an old favourite, Mary Norton's The Borrowers . I work from home...

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Saturday, 20 August 2011

Lost and found

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Wait a minute, I said to myself over a cappucchino and carrot cake after I had safely delivered my granddaughter to the other set of grandpa...

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