The Best Job in the World!

Would you like to look after a private Austalian island for £70,000 a year, working part-time (12 hours a month) and all you have to do is write a promotional blog about how beautiful everything is? Er, so would I!

Is it true? Yes, but hence the competition. Click the pic above!

Anyone for squirrel?

Click the pic to find out how squirrel is now hitting British dinner plates. Mmm, squirrel!

Pic (for no reason at all) # 6

The ever trusty British telephone box!

Merry Christmas!

Click the pic for the history of Christmas - "Christ, Claus and the history of our most popular holiday!"

If only - click the pic for the news. Welcome to the White House, President Obama, and perhaps you can bring to the Middle East what's been missing there for so long!

University of London - teaching postgrad class!

I'm pleased to say I'll be teaching a postgraduate workshop (for the M.A. in Creative Writing) at Royal Holloway, the University of London alongside UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, in Bloomsbury, Central London. I'll be teaching the workshop from January - April 2009 (the spring term in the UK).

The above pic shows the main campus, approximately 20 miles outside London in Surrey. The MA in Creative Writing will be taught in Bloomsbury, though, close to Bedford Square:

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I'm definitely looking forward to working alongside Professor Andrew Motion, the UK Poet Laureate, and poet Jo Shapcott. It's a great opportunity and I'm pleased to have it.

Below is the college coat of arms! The Latin motto "Esse quam videri" means "To be, rather than to seem." I hope to do the same!

Blighty here I come!

White House Christmas Tree!

Dear England, Last night I took this pic of the White House Christmas Tree. I am quite pleased with my skills, although the lights may have something to do with it! You can just make out the Washington Monument in the background. No sign of W. the elf though...

Click the pic to learn the history of the tree and how they get it into place! Pretty interesting actually - 'The Tree' won the National Christmas Tree Association's (NCTA) Christmas Tree contest held back in August in Des Moines, Iowa!

In case you're wondering, it's a massive fir tree.