Fox E Parker

The Time Keeper is published - AAAAAAHWOOOOOOO!

2010-12-18T03:58:00.000-08:00

The Postie found the mailbox under snow at Pockets Park gate - I'm one happy beastie with Christmas copies of my first published short story THE TIME KEEPER, in 'A Pocketful Of Moondust' (Rebel Books)
Some splendid treehouse reading for me this winter.
AAAAAAHWOOOOOOO! Presents!

You can order your own copies of the children's magical anthology from the Rebel Bookstore
ISBN: 978-0-9565035-4-1 Price: £8.99

Happy Holidays!

Two Heads And A Third Eye

2010-11-09T04:02:00.001-08:00

The leaves are falling and THE TIME KEEPER is on its way!

With two heads and a third eye, Rebel Books, we've finished the final edits! This is Fox's first fiction to be published for young readers 7+.

The creatures of Pocket’s Park are there if you dare to look…

Twins Frank and Fern are captured by a lizardy-bird who lives in a clock tower hidden in the tallest tree in Pockets Park.

They must escape but have they got the power to outwit a magical creature who controls time itself?

The Time Keeper will be published as a short story in A Pocketful Of Moondust, a children's magical anthology (December 2010).

Haapaniemi's Fox in the Capital

2010-10-24T03:18:00.000-07:00

Fox - making ourselves at home in the capital with Klaus Haapaniemi

Nickel Creek "The Fox"

2010-09-08T06:27:00.000-07:00

Nickel Creek play The Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night. Slide to the 3 minutes 45 mark if you're short of time.

Chris is on the mandolin
Mixing up the music (Subterranean!)

Looking for a new den

2010-07-16T07:17:00.001-07:00

See more photos of the Small Spaces Exhibition at London's V & A 15th June - 30th August 2010

Bill Bryson and Old England

2010-06-30T04:50:00.000-07:00

Because the countryside is so generally fine and looks so deceptively timeless, it’s easy to think of it as somehow fixed and immutable and safely permanent. In fact, it is none of these things, of course – though it is very ancient, even more ancient than people often realise.

Bill Bryson's Speech

Cafes and Ice-Cream

2010-06-01T05:30:00.000-07:00

Photo Sue Eves
Discovering there was a 19th century ice-house in the grounds of a local school led to interesting plot developments and further reading...

Harvest Of The Cold Months
Elizabeth David

Common Land

2010-05-22T07:55:00.000-07:00

It all began here - our local South London common was the inspiration for THE TIME KEEPER.

Photo Sue Eves

clipped from www.oss.org.uk

COMMON LAND

in England and Wales

It’s not publicly owned - but we do at last have the right to walk there. It is historic land which has largely remained undisturbed and unploughed through the centuries - a remnant of medieval life, when people relied on common land for their survival.

There are 1.3 million acres of common land in England and Wales, registered in over 9,000 separate units covering all types of landscape and habitat - from the moors of Dartmoor and Bodmin in the south west, to the fells of the Lake District and mountains of Snowdonia, the Surrey heaths and the Norfolk coast.

Many commons have common rights registered on them - for grazing animals, collecting wood and bracken, digging peat or allowing the pigs to eat fallen acorns, for example.

Trees, Dens and Hiding Places

2010-04-18T09:46:00.000-07:00

Photos Sue Eves

Trees - hollows, dens and treehouses feature in our story. They are an important part of the plot. Oaks, Hawthorns, Lime trees and Horse Chestnut or Conker trees help define the time lines in the story.

www.british-trees.com

www.english-heritage.org.uk/

London Cafe History

2010-03-02T09:51:00.000-08:00

Photo Sue Eves

Our Cafe built 1906 - South London.

We found some excellent sites about the history of coffee houses and Tea Shops. Here are some of our favourites:

Lyons

clipped from www.kzwp.com

Classic Cafes

clipped from www.classiccafes.co.uk

Jamaica
Wine House, St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London EC3

Classic Cafes By Adrian Maddox

Tea Council

clipped from www.tea.co.uk