Edward Picot’s blog (incorporating Dr Hairy)

Martha goes to the lake, where she’s infuriated to find that all the geese are gobbling goose treats and honking with laughter. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

When the goose money box comes back from its flight, Martha finds it on her windowsill surrounded by wrappers. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

http://www.drhairy.org/index.php/dr-hairys-research-podcasts –Dr David Hindmarsh and myself discuss articles from the Observer and the BMJ. Subjects under discussion this month, as for the last couple of months, are all connected to the Covid-19 outbreak – what’s going to happen now that we’re coming out of lockdown? Are we going to get a ‘second wave’?

• ‘Germany may have more immunological dark matter’, The Observer, 31/5/20
• ‘All cause mortality/Covid-19 in Nembro, Lombardy’, BMJ m1835
• ‘Too slow and fundamentally flawed’, BMJ m2246
• ‘Can the UK emulate S Korea’s approach to Covid-19?’, BMJ m2084

Martha is aghast when the goose money box flies off with all her money. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

When Martha puts money into the goose money box, it flaps its wings and flies off out of the bedroom window. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

Martha finds the goose money box on her bedroom window sill. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

Martha asks the goblin for help. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book.

Martha tries to save enough money to buy a dog. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

Martha’s Dad introduces her to the hollow tree stump where the goblin lives. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

My interview with Chat & Spin Radio, about my five recent picture-books (three of them co-authored with Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis) is now on their new group page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/275650426789110/ The whole Saturday & Weekend Late Show for 17th May is on that page, divided up into two parts: my bit’s about twenty minutes into Part 2.

Chat & Spin Radio is run by two guys called Ron and Ian, who were both really nice and friendly, and they say they’re going to have me back in July for another interview.