Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 22
May 14, 2013
GREAT START IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Wow! What a start over in Newark, New Jersey! After a very smooth transition from our hotel in Manhattan to a cosy hotel in Newark, New Jersey, we settled down to watch the second half of the FA cup final – Manchester City v Wigan. It made us feel very much at home, especially as [...]
May 10, 2013
NEW YORK ROCKS!
Yet another ‘cracking’ week in New York schools. So many fans…it’s extremely humbling! The enthusiasm shown by ALL the schools we visited is what drives us on to write more books and entertain our welcoming fans. ‘THANK YOU’ to you all…PS 5, DPE, PS 36, PS 83, PS4, PS 123, PS 72, PS 152 and [...]
April 30, 2013
GREAT START IN NEW YORK
After a very relaxing start over a beautiful weekend in 7th Avenue ( trying hard to get rid of the jet-lag), we finally made a start on our New York school visits. PS175 was our very first school and a great choice by our ‘organiser most efficient’ Dr Judy Parker. PS175 are old fans of ours [...]
April 27, 2013
BERKSHIRE TO NY CITY!
Kath and I are in New York! We can’t believe we’re here. We literally just left our lovely retreat in rural Berkshire after visiting Elstree School on Thursday, and now it’s Sat morning and we’re in a fab hotel on 5th Avenue, just two minutes from Central Park and Times Square. Elstree School proved a [...]
April 13, 2013
ISLE OF MAN
Please forgive lack of updating on this blog! Kath and I are currently working on the fab Isle of Man…but internet facilities are still behind where they should be. Hence I’m sitting in the Ferry Port Terminal on Saturday morning, surrounded by charging, out-of-control infants, typing into my laptop! SCARY!! The schools over the last [...]
March 26, 2013
BACK UP NORTH
After the snowy bad-weather experiences of the Isle of Wight, it was even more frustrating to drive up to our home base in Yorkshire in more extreme conditions. After finally reaching the M1 around Coventry, you can imagine our delight in finding it closed in both directions! When we finally arrived in Rotherham, we could [...]
March 21, 2013
ISLE OF SNOW WIGHT!
After a great World Book Week it was pure magic to be heading off towards one of our most favourite places on the planet…the Isle of Wight. Little did we realise that it really would be white…with snow! We moved into our fab cottage on the Garlic Farm, alongside our good friends, the Boswell family. They always [...]
March 10, 2013
WONDERFUL WORLD BOOK WEEK
Wow! What a week! I think it’s fair to say that this World Book Week was the best we’ve ever experienced in the nine years since becoming an author. And that is in no small way to the help and support we have had from our good friends, Anne Puddephatt of the Dukes Middle School, [...]
February 24, 2013
HIDDEN AWAY DURING HALF-TERM!
Kath and I are ‘hidden’ away in our fab Berkshire retreat…keeping warm, seeing lots of our two boys, Matthew and Simon and their respective families…and I’m writing like mad! Mokee Joe 5 is going VERY well and I’m really pleased with what I’ve written so far. I can guarantee some very spooky episodes in the [...]
February 13, 2013
PATHWAY TO HAPPINESS!
We were pleasantly surprised by the weather on returning from Abu Dhabi to the UK. It was much colder…obviously…but sunny and pleasant. The following morning after our return flight from the Middle East, I rose early and accompanied our older son, Matthew, to a 5K run in a very scenic country park close to Reading, [...]
