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Sweating on the cross trainer in the gym I noticed a headline about Kyrgyzstan scrolling across the bottom of the Sky News screen. Sadly it was not a positive one; an England football fan had been shot in the leg. Great, I thought, now news channels will be negative about Kyrgyzstan. Having lived there for three [...] After years of hard word and fretting over writing Revolution Baby: Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan it’s always very rewarding when people contact me to say how much they’ve enjoyed reading it. Carole very kindly sent an extremely detailed review and it was especially gratifying to see that she had enjoyed and interpreted the book [...] Great excitement – I am published in The Telegraph. An article which I have written about the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan has been published in The Weekly Telegraph and is on-line at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/01/15/kyrgyzstan.xml&page=1 I am delighted to read that Father Christmas has been told to relocate to Kyrgyzstan. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DZ35HFBALUSONQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/23/nxmas223.xml A remote spot in this little known country has been declared the “geographical centre of the world’s spread of children” by a team of Swedish scientists who have advised that if Santa started his journey in Kyrgyzstan he would achieve the [...] I’m sorry, I’ve not written for ages. My only excuse is that I’ve been busy: busy marketing Revolution Baby and busy preparing for Christmas with my two children, but I’ll tell you about that another time. I was on the radio again yesterday – is this becoming tedious? This time I was on GWR Bristol, on [...] I just listened to myself on the radio – and was pleasantly surprised! I was expecting to cringe but instead felt proud that I actually sounded as eloquent and authoritative as other radio guests. If you are now intrigued you can go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2007/11/23/revolutionbaby_feature.shtml to listen again, read a feature article and look at some [...] On Monday I recorded my first radio interview. It’s going to be serialised every night next week (starting Monday 26th November) on the Drive show on Radio Bristol. You can listen on-line (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/local_radio/) and I’m told I’ll be on shortly after 6pm. I’m very nervous about how I’ll come across. A spoken interview is scary. When [...] The launch of Revolution Baby: Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan on Saturday was fantastic! As we were setting up, the room filling with two yurts and colourful craft stalls, I suddenly felt excited that it was all coming together. I had wanted to create a Kyrgyz festival where people could learn something of the country. [...] My mind has gone numb. In four hours I am launching Revolution Baby and yet my mind is empty. I’m hoping that everything I need is packed in the car. I’m hoping that the words I was planning to say will come back to me when the time comes for my speech. I feel out [...] Momentum is building for the launch: we’ve had a family photo taken for The Thornbury Gazette (should be in Thursday’s edition); a local bookshop has bought copies; a London bookshop (Daunt Books) has ordered wholesale; poor Matthew is busy creating promotional bookmarks and I’m ticking off names on my guest list. Tomorrow I face my greatest [...] |
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