2017

2017 was a really busy year for us!

We went to Paris, Pisa, JHB, Makhado, White River, Richmond, McGregor, Shrewsbury, Nottingham, Much Wenlock, London, Oxford, Cape Town and residency at Nirox Scuplture Park.

We launched two more Oaky books - Oaky the Brave Acorn and What is Happening to Oaky?

Athol published his fourth book of poetry INVITATION.

Read to Rise turned 4! To date we have given out over 92,000 new story books.

We saw snow in Oxford.

Athol graduated (MPhil Political Theory) from Oxford University.

What a great year!

Weekend in Nottingham 15-18 December 2017

Athol attended a poetry workshop in Hockley, Nottingham on Saturday so we decided to make a weekend out of it.

Nottingham is known for the tale of Robin Hood as the Sherwood Forest is nearby. There's a statue of Robin Hood by the Nottingham Castle.

It is a nice vibrant city with tons of shops, even two malls. There are trams in the city. Nottingham has over 500 sandstone caves under the city. Really liked the city. There was a big Christmas market by the Old Market Square, there was a fair and even an ice rink. It was very busy!

This was the Sky Mirror, an art piece by the Nottingham Playhouse.

 There is a lovely canal tow path.

 This is Mortimer's Hole by the Castle.

 Had a lovely breakfast at  Pitcher and Piano, which is a chapel converted restaurant/bar.

Our first snow in Oxford

On Sunday 10 December 2017, it snowed in Oxford.

We haven't seen snow since our time on Boston, 5 years ago.

Still love seeing snow :) it's so beautiful and dreamy!

Even built a mini- snowman, we call him Charles :)

It's so cold though, thank goodness for the heating. Schools were closed on Monday due to the snow.