Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, I apologise for this post arriving a day late, last night I had envisioned a nice quiet night in preparing this post and the history podcast for Friday, I was however instead treated to the spectacle of a chinese lantern setting itself on fire and then starting to take off, with just the quick thinking of one person kicking it out of midair stopping the whole scene from escalating into a disaster... Long story, I’ll save it for another time!

    I have a review with a slight difference to normal this week, as it is not about one particular book or item it is about a general collection of things from a certain person, that person being Edward Monkton.

    I was given an early Christmas present the other week, you can see it in the photo above, the book “The Pig of Happiness” it is a very peculiar book. The story is very VERY short, most of the pages feature on big drawing in an incredibly basic style and a short line of the story. This is nothing other than a children's book in reality, yet it seems that somehow it is an adults book. This might just be down to clever marketing or presentation or maybe it is just one of those things!

    It did make me smile however, which surely makes it a success no matter what it is meant to be. I was then out shopping a few days later when I happened to stumble upon a collection of stuffed toys and mugs etc from this interesting fellow. There is something about the whole art style and how a lot of the writing seems to be without point or meaning, and sometimes even sense! For example if you click on the amazon link below and take a look in the list at an item called “The Power of Cake Mug” you will know exactly what I am talking about, these things don’t seem to have purpose of reason, yet for me at least they do!

    I apologise for how unusual this review post is, but it is impossible for me to explain a story without destroying it as they are so short and I can’t very well review a mug! I just thought that this was a discovery that deserved to be shared with as many people as possible! Take a look at his things on amazon, they really are fascinating little oddities.

Make sure you head back here tomorrow for the history podcast, we will be looking at a few stories from a small town in shropshire...

Thanks for reading folks,

Until the next time as always,

look after yourself and have fun,

dan