Snow Days - A Walk In the Woods

We had lots of snow last week and my visit to Mivera VA Primary School had to be called off at the last minute as a result. We'll be arranging another day for me to come along very soon though. 

Snow always looks pretty... 

... but it does make getting around a little trickier. Lots of schools were closed as a result - and so were the libraries, so Vicky had a snow day too. After doing a bit of writing we put our boots on and went for a walk in the woods near where we live. 

Wepre Park is always a nice place for a walk, but in the snow it seems even nicer - it's quieter too. 

After walking between the snowcovered trees, over the stream and up a little hill, we arrived at Ewloe Castle - often referred to as the castle in the woods. 

The castle was built in 1257 by Llywelyn, Prince of Gwynedd - who later became Prince of Wales. 

As you can see, it was never a very big castle, and there's not a lot of it left - just parts of the walls, part of the main building and part of the the tower that you can see on the right of the picture above - but it's still worth seeing.

And you get a great view over the surrounding trees from the top.

This week I'm busy writing about dinosaurs, and working on ideas for an exciting new project that involves dragons - but that's all I can say about it for now as it's TOP SECRET.

Happy New Year and Snow, Snow, Snow...

We've had quite a lot of snow over the weekend but that didn't stop us getting out of the house. On Saturday, Vicky and I went for a walk through Wepre Woods and up to Ewloe Castle... It was lovely walking through the crisp, crunchy snow. The rest of this diary entry is going to be brightened up by a few pictures that I took as we walked along... There are hundreds of castles here in Wales and I'm planning to write a few diary entries about the different one's I come across as I travel around so I will tell you more about Ewloe Caste very soon....

Can't believe that it's been so long since I posted anything in my diary. I had planned to make a New Years Resolution to write a diary post each week.... at least one and hopefully more. So far not so good. This is the first post of the New Year. The time just seems to be flying by.

We had a lovely Christmas and hope that you did too... Right now I'm busy working on some new stories - books of my own and some books for educational reading series that you might see in your schools very soon.

I've had quite a bit of good news over the last few weeks - my Rob-runners books are going to be reprinted with nice new covers - and they are going to be available to download onto Kobo and Kindle e-readers very soon too... I will let you have a look at the new covers soon.

Tomorrow I will be visiting St Anne's Catholic Primary School in Ormskirk (hopefully the snow will stay away until then) and on Thursday I 'm off to the Venerable Edward Morgan Primary School in Shotton (just down the road).

See you all soon....