Coming soon .........

Starting in January on our 'Alex and Friends' website there will be a FREE downloadable activity for children plus a special offer on our goodies each month for the whole of 2010.

Merry Christmas!

The Christmas picture is from one of our Christmas cards which you can buy from our website. Good quality, reasonably priced, A5 cards, with envelopes, and the Christmas greeting in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Russian. Plus a 'Spot the Difference' picture on the back.

The National Honey Show

Thanks partly to an upsurgence in interest in beekeeping, The National Honey Show was a great success, with good attendance both from experienced beekeepers, and newcomers.

The standard of entries of honey, wax, mead, cakes, art and crafts was sky high; the trade exhibition hall was buzzing; and the London & Surrey Beekeepers' display with its observation hive in the Green Room was constantly packed with interested visitors.

One of our exhibitors hosted a visit from the High Commissioner from Mauritius; we also had Sky Channel 813 filming and interviewing people (including my Dad) and The Food Programme came along to make a programme about honey, which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Sunday 8 November at 12.30, repeated at 4pm Monday, or you can listen again on the BBC iplayer. Don't miss it, or you'll have to wait another whole year for the next National Honey Show.

Zazzle

Zazzle, Vistaprint and Lulu are such a major help to small outfits, enabling small quantities of promotional items to be ordered at a sensible cost.

Having just discovered Zazzle, we can now offer the Dragon/Wolf mug for sale without the outlay and storage for a minimum order of 1,000. To say nothing of the invoicing and postage. Check it out, and design your own coffee mugs, T shirts and mouse mats!

Dragon Mug at Zazzle

Frankfurt Book Fair

It seems almost unbelievable that we've been home a week. The bookfair was certainly an experience. Several football stadium sized halls filled with stands of publishers from all over the world.

The 'veterans', returning each year have back to back meetings each scheduled for half an hour throughout the day to discuss deals to sell their books in new territories, new languages and new formats throughout the world.

We had several meetings and look forward to following up .. and of course, being in the middle of the meeting season, there is the National Honey Show to look forward to this coming week......... From the Kids Section on the NHS website, you can download a free bee picture for children to colour, and spot the difference.

Inside a Beehive

The new book is well underway. You can look through the brood box of a real beehive from the comfort of your armchair, with no risk of being stung. Amazing.

New book: 'Alex and Friends' text in English and in French

We have now published the text of the 'Alex and Friends' story in both English and French. Yay! It is a little pocket book which will fit into the DVD case alongside the CDs. All made possible by Lulu.