Turquoise Monster

Jean is the little girl With the hair that likes to curl And she likes a buttered bun

Boiled eggs Fried eggs Poached eggs Pickled eggs Curried eggs Scotched eggs Scrambled eggs Nest eggs Golden eggs Chocolate eggs!

Mary a little girl who likes to be called The Berry Thinks she’s a canary and sings both night and day She churps to the sun and then to the moon Hoping the others will wake real soon She has a story she’d like to tell About adventures and magic spells Of the castle that […]

Merry Christmas, Yule, Midwinter etc…. I like to snug down and write in the winter and we’ve also created an indoor fire/story telling circle using LED lights and empty loo roll tubes – I hope you are all having an equally cosy time if you live in colder climes and a cool festive times if […]

Monday night I inflicted my childrens poetry on an audience in the Waterstones Cheltenham as part of the Villanelles series run by The Gloucester Poetry Society. This beautiful photo of the reading was taken by Kurt Schroeder Photography which is a challenge as I can’t really do flash photography and the light levels were poor! […]

Gnats natter all the time Above the puddles Down the lane Waiting for they human pray Gnats natter all the day Swapping recipes To cook blood – every which way. Gnats natter plotting away With praise For how to raise those Lumps and bumps Of itch on the human rumps

I have created this Christmas Activity Booklet, they are all made at home by me and my husband – rock on printer and binding machine!!! It contains a craft activity tutorial, festive poetry, colouring in, a story and a puzzle. It is one of a series of booklets I am creating at the moment including […]

Just a reminder that I have a few things for sale this festive season! Starting with Love: A Stranger Dream which is a non-linear visual poem on identity presented as a colouring book. < iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=httpwwwsnellp-21&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=1530078490&asins=1530078490&linkId=&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true”> Then there is the audio which you can listen to for free or by […]

Last year I did an Advent painting challenge and produced a painting a day. The results are in this book along with a story-poem I have written to thread the pictures together. It is a tale that pierces right through to the heart of mythology and to our feelings of loss and renewal. There are […]

So a few years ago now I wrote a series of halloween poems for Jean who wanted something spooky but not scary and could only say spoogy as she was four or something. I then did a few more poems and typed it all up and did some illustrations the originals having been lost in […]