On the toot, with drum and floot! By Jan Needle
Only a few hours until my next blog is due to burst upon the unsuspecting public, and I ain't got a thought in my head. Added to which, I'm using my new voice recognition software, so it could be a damn long time before I've actually finished it. (Actually, that wasn't so bad. I had to correct damn, which Dragon presumably thought was something you hold water back with, and it wrote I for I've. Not bad EH? And who cares if it put that all in caps.) Where was I? Ah yes, a blog subject. Well on May 1, my ‘version’ of Wind in the Willows will be published as a paperback, and an e-book. Not just any old paperback either, it would bring tears to a rare book collector's eyes. Not to put too fine a point on it, it looks wonderful. And I says so as shouldn't! It's called, for those of you who have been asleep at the back, Wild Wood, and it's Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece retold from the point of view of the Stoats, Ferrets and Weasels ...