I spent yesterday with young people from Maidstone bird watching at Wick Court. It was something of an endurance test as we endured snow, sleet and later rain throughout. Any self respecting bird was hunkered down behind a hedge etc. Surprisingly we saw a Song Thrush which have been an increasingly rare sighting at Wick Court. The children were brilliant despite the wet and the cold. I of course got even wetter and colder pedalling home afterwards! Off later to Story Tell to these young people.

Tomorrow I am off to Wiltshire for another World Book Day gig, visiting a school just outside of Trowbridge for the first time.