Me and the world’s greatest magician (and Keith Chegwin)
 
By Ross Welford
11 Mar 2017
 

Me and the world’s greatest magician (and Keith Chegwin)


Uri Geller is at it again, and proving once more that our appetite for his particular brand of film-flam remains remains unsated. Check this out: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/uri-geller-cia-wanted-turn-weapon/ Yes, this is Uri is on the front page of the UK’s Daily Telegraph today with a story picked up by most of the other newspapers. He is claiming (yet again!) that, back in his […]

World Book Day and the nicest school I have ever visited
 
By Ross Welford
5 Mar 2017
 

World Book Day and the nicest school I have ever visited


  I have now done two World Book Days as an author, and I always think back to the ones when my own two children (now 14)  would dress up for school as a favourite book character. We did, among others, Angelina Ballerina (a fairly easy costume, that one, largely achieved with face-paint and a […]

The Monkey Who Fell From The Future

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My pet dog is called Mr Mash. We named him that because he's a mishmash. A total mongrel. He smells terrible. He'll eat literally anything. He can't see very well. But I love him more than anything. (Sorry dad.) And without him, the world is going to end...

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