Lesley Watts

I still think about this a lot.

You are welcome! I had to keep dipping in and out, listening to time-checks, to find the segment, so thought the slider reference would help. Jeremy Bowen put so much of what’s happening in context.

Starts at 2:10:29 on the seek bar (that little slider that shows where you are in the broadcast)

The Shortlist for the #Carnegies2026 Medal for Writing is here! 📖 With subversive storytelling, reimagined folklore, and inventive verse and chronology, this shortlist has a story for everyone. 📚
Congratulations to the talented writers.

https://carnegies.co.uk/2026-shortlists-announced/

The Shortlist for the #Carnegies2026 Medal for Illustration is here! 💫Showcasing a diverse range of unique artistic styles, these illustrations will capture your heart. Congratulations to all the talented illustrators. 🎨

https://carnegies.co.uk/2026-shortlists-announced/

Among other more obvious horrors, this war is closing our window to mitigate climate breakdown

Iris reticulata 'Louise'

Looks like this Iris Reticulata. I have some purple ones flowering in pots

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My sons would look after a friend’s rabbits whilst the family was on holiday. Parents brought round the hutch, food etc. to our garden. My boys enjoyed this, but it was enough to convince them they didn’t want their own rabbits. Do you have friends who could give you a ‘trial run’?

Socks Are Not Enough Mike Swarbrick's life couldn't get any worse. His pervy best friend gets him embroiled in a scandal involving the girls' changing rooms, his idiot brother

It’s out of print now, and an older read than Charlie and Me www.marklowery.co.uk/socks-are-not-enough/

Nice isn’t it? Have you ever read Socks Are Not Enough by the same author?

Son and friend went to a fancy dress party as Jack & Rose from Titanic. They met two people they didn’t know, who’d come dressed as ‘the doors on the Titanic’

Primary libraries pledge includes converted cloakrooms and corridors Treasury has committed to ensuring that every primary school has a library by 2029, but these facilities could include former ‘storage spaces’, Tes can reveal

In light of the Govt’s pledge to provide a library for every primary, Caroline Roche, Chair of CILIP School Libraries Group argues there’s a danger of a “missed opportunity” if the focus is more on physical space than staffing.
https://ow.ly/s24c50Yq4Ku

a cartoon character says " me fail english that 's unossible " Alt: a cartoon character says " me fail english that 's unossible "

‘A filmed version’ not ‘An filmed version’

Callum is a dryly funny character and out of his depth

Charlie and Me: 421 Miles from Home by Mark Lowery

Film version of Charlie and Me by Mark Lowery entitled ‘500 Miles’ with photo of Bill Nighy and the two young actors who play Finn and Charlie.

An filmed version of this book came out last month #KidsBooksFriday

Almost Nothing Happened by Meg Rosoff. The pink cover is illustrated with the Eiffel Tower, a couple dashing along on a scooter, a dog and a bag of money, someone playing the oboe and other items featured in the book.

After a dull exchange trip to France, Callum decides to see what Paris has to offer. This madcap adventure would make a fun tv show #KidsBooksFriday

Why you should read children’s books even though you are so old and wise by Katherine Rundell Written for children by John Rowe Townsend Babies need books by Dorothy Butler The child that books built by Francis Spufford The lore and language of schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie From spare room to war drobe by Katherine Langrish Tell me: children, reading and talk WITH the reading environment by Aidan Chambers The child and the book by Nicholas Tucker The ordinary and the fabulous by Elizabeth Cook The cool web: the pattern of children’s reading by Margaret Meek et al The haunted wood by Sam Leith The Oxford companion to children’s literature by Daniel Hahn

A pile of books about young people and their reading for #WorldBookDay

In so many tv thrillers where people on the run go to safe houses, or the central character’s apartment, I don’t hear much of the dialogue because I’m yelling ‘Close the damn curtains!’ at the tv.

I always feel so sorry for the poor tight-lipped person dealing with a huge queue and no help in sight, or when they vainly keep ringing the bell to no avail.

Librarianship- utterly mystifying!

A long time ago, a meeting was convened in the school I worked in (no current staff were involved) about whole-school reading/reading for enjoyment where I only found out about it afterwards (ditto an author visit)

There is a bursary up for grabs for the YLG Conference #YLGOxford26 for someone that lives &/or works in London, from @ylglondon.bsky.social (ticket price only). Deadline to apply is 20th March, details in link below www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Infographic about how books are published, sold, and enter the school library. Available at: tinyurl.com/how-books-2026

Remember my infographic about How Books Enter the Library? In this new version, I’ve added an annotated summary of Kelly Jensen’s “Books Don’t Just Appear on the Shelves.” Use this mashup to help folks understand how the claim of porn in school libraries makes no sense. tinyurl.com/how-books-2026

Peacock butterfly perched on some leaves. Photo from https://fleetpond.org.uk

Brimstone butterfly with yellow wings and a single orange dot on each wing. Photo from https://butterfly-conservation.org

Gardening this morning and spotted a Brimstone and a Peacock butterfly

6 wonderful books set in Wales for St David's Day

For #StDavidsDay, author Olivia Wakeford shares some of her favourite contemporary books set in Wales, by some of her favourite Welsh children’s authors!

https://bit.ly/46v0zdi

Like ‘poppety ping’ not being the actual Welsh word for microwave, ‘pyscod wibbli wobbli’ isn’t the official word for jellyfish 😁

View of Cardigan Bay and buildings along the front in Aberystwyth

St David’s Cathedral in Pembrokeshire

South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey. White lighthouse on rocky peninsula jutting out into the sea.

Small stone bridge over a rocky river surrounded by greenery in Mid-Wales.

It’s St David’s Day, so here are some of my photos taken in Wales

A fox with his nose in a daffodil and eyes closed bilssfully.

It's March 1st! Dydd gwyl Dewi Sant hapus -- Happy St David's Day to everyone, enjoy this fox enjoying a daffodil.

Charlie and Me: 421 Miles from Home’ by Mark Lowery shows colourful illustration of seaside town with a dolphin jumping in the foreground.

New film based on the lovely little book by Mark Lowery ‘Charlie and Me’

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