It’s the most wonderful time of the year – this weekend sees the beginning of Courier Country’s fantastic festive lights switch-on events. From large-scale entertainment to smaller community-led events, the streets of cities, towns and villages will soon be sparkling as the countdown to Christmas begins.
DESPITE HAVING spent my entire working life with typewriter then computer, I have mustered only two great claims to literary immortality. One was being featured in a Norwegian newspaper crossword – Clue 7 Across. The second is writing a script for Pansy Potter, the famous strongman’s daughter of comics fame.
The greatest ideas can occur in the strangest of circumstances. When it comes to The Bash Street Kids comic strip in The Beano, the editorial team in DC Thomson’s Meadowside headquarters would use the playground antics of the schoolchildren across the street as their inspiration.