Edward Picot’s blog (incorporating Dr Hairy)

Chat & Spin Radio are going to be interviewing me about my picture books this evening at 7.55 p.m. The interview will be uploaded to their new Group Page tomorrow, and I’ll post the link when they send it to me.

Chat & Spin were launched six years ago, based in Tyne & Wear, and as the name suggests they try to combine music of all types with discussion and interviews about a range of different subjects. They also try to give airtime opportunities to up-and-coming DJs. Their website is https://chatandspinradio.com/, or you can find them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/chatandspin.

I should also mention that I was introduced to Chat & Spin by Suvi Chisholm (https://www.facebook.com/SuvisReadingCorner/), a US-based picture-book author who I’ve got to know online. How she found out about them I’ve no idea, but she’s obviously much better at networking and self-publicising than I am.

The Prime Minister, Jorrocks Bonkinson, is interviewed about his handling of the croonervirus crisis – with hilarious results!

http://www.drhairy.org/index.php/dr-hairys-research-podcasts – Dr David Hindmarsh and myself discuss recent articles from the medical press. This month, unsurprisingly, it’s all about covid-19 and how the crisis is being dealt with:

• PHE upgrades protective kit advice, BMJ m1391
• Experts Question New Guidance to reuse PPE, BMJ m1577
• ‘Publish UK’s self-isolation evidence’, BMJ m1571
• Concern at lack of clarity over change of ibuprofen advice, BMJ m1555
• Avoid NSAIDs for fever in patients with suspected covid-19, NICE advises, BMJ m1409
• Tackling covid-19: are the costs worth the benefits?, BMJ m1496
• Why does Germany’s covid-19 case fatality rate seem so low?, BMJ m1395
• Deaths of NHS staff from covid-19 analysed, HSJ, https://www.hsj.co.uk/exclusive-deaths-of-nhs-staff-from-covid-19-analysed/7027471.article
• Shameful neglect of social care in the pandemic, BMJ m1465

Martha walking to the lake with her Dad, to see the geese. From The Goose Money Box, my forthcoming picture book.

Mrs Hattersley presents Dr Hairy with some questions about Croonervirus – with hilarious results!

https://youtu.be/mSqOhfAyhMA

My new picture book: fifteen photographs, all processed in one way or another, accompanied by five short prose pieces, each 55 words long. Now available from Amazon, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1654173010.

‘I shall write about the lake instead. I prefer its breadth and simplicity.’

From my new picture book.

Dr Hairy attempts to get himself some personal protection – with hilarious results!

‘The Stream’, picture 14. ‘What I think of as the stream’s colour is really only mud, leaves, and reflections. How can it have an identity, when it keeps trickling away?’

From my new picture book.

‘What I think of as the stream is really only a section of the stream.’

From my new picture book.