Peter J. Murray's Blog, page 5
October 6, 2021
HAPPY (ECSTATIC) IN HEXHAM!
After a more-than-successful visit to Ovingham Middle School, it was ‘all guns blazing’ as we made our way up the road to our old friends at the newly located Hexham Middle School. Our two hosts for the next couple of days were our good friend, Ms Roff, and the newly-appointed Ms Hayler (or as we […]
September 28, 2021
WE’RE BACK!!
I can’t believe we’re back! School bookings are now rolling in and we have over 20 school visits in place over the next few months. First of our return visits to schools was to the wonderful Ovingham Middle School. To say the pupils (and staff) are fans of ours is surely an understatement! What a […]
July 29, 2021
THE BIG RESTART!
Hi to all our fans! Yes…we’re still here, itching to get back into doing what we like best – getting into schools and exciting pupils re literacy, our books, and of course…all things spooky! And dare we say that September may be the restart that we’ve been so long hoping for! A good few schools […]
March 21, 2021
WORLD BOOK DAY LOCKDOWN!
As some of you know, I’m lucky enough to be Patron of Reading for the Delta Academy Trust. I love working with the schools in the trust and already have lovely memories of my visits over the last few years. And so it was great to be asked by Fiona Marks – the trust’s Director of […]
November 12, 2020
DOUBLE LIFT OFF!
With all the downbeat happenings re the pandemic and such, I’ve just had two great uplifting events and I want to tell you about them. A wonderful batch of letters (30 in total) were sent to me from a school in Staffordshire. The school in question is St Benedict Biscop School and the letters were from the […]
October 3, 2020
COVID FRUSTRATIONS!
Well, at least the schools are back – even if we aren’t! It’s so frustrating for me and Kath still being stuck around the house and not yet able to resume our much-loved school visits. We miss all our fans – pupils and teachers – more than you can imagine. The only positive coming from these […]
July 9, 2020
HOPING TO BE BACK IN SCHOOLS BEFORE TOO LONG!
Hope my fans are staying well and coping with all the strange happenings going on around us. As someone once said, ‘It could only happen in a book!’ During lockdown I’ve been working on my new book, exercising more than at any other time in my life, and generally trying to keep busy. I’m not very good […]
April 29, 2020
AUTHOR IN LOCKDOWN!
If there’s one good thing about this lockdown period, it’s that it’s a good time for authors to write and a good time for readers to read! Hence, I’m enjoying writing this blog entry and I hope when I’ve finished, some of you will enjoy reading it. Like most people out there, my wife, Kath, […]
March 25, 2020
HIGH ELBOWS IN BRADFORD!
Apologies for the delay in writing this blog, but as everyone knows things have been a little strange and surreal over the last week or so! I’m still not sure how we managed to finish our week visiting four wonderful Delta Academy Trust schools in and around Bradford. We chose to stay at the scenic Hewenden […]
March 16, 2020
FOUR ‘LUVLY’ SCHOOLS!
A great week spent in four ‘luvly’ schools all quite close to our South Yorkshire home – Bawtry Mayflower Primary, Holme Hall Primary, Hopton Primary and Abbey Wood School (only half a mile from our home!). Our son and author, Simon Murray, had already visited Bawtry Mayflower Primary and could not say enough good things […]
