Brief update and News of Nomination for Award

Hi everyone,

I have been going through a lot of sadness in my personal life and so have not posted much in recent weeks. Fear not though. Plans are bubbling away beneath the surface, and I have been closely following some interesting scientists, with a view to collaboration. I am collecting a long list of people who definitely want to commission me, but currently don't have the funds. I think that's good. :/

In the realm of achievements: the Hull University project (for which I wrote a children's play and book) is being nominated for the Guardian Excellence in Widening Participation Award. Credit to Mark Lorch, who set the whole project up, advised me on the science, then went into schools and did the experiments with the children.

See you all again soon, I hope.

Pippa :)

Hello,

I have a whole hotchpotch of different things to tell you about today. One piece of good news is that Hull Uni have found a theatre company to do the play Investigation: Haunted House. They are called Double Take Theatre Company and they will be taking the play into schools.

The second piece of good news is that the novel to go with the play is very nearly written. Mark and I are hoping to start sending it out to agents next week.

A third piece of good news is that The Cotswold Listener, a CD for the blind, will be featuring some of my work, and also my grandmother, Effie M. Roberts's poems.

Finally, on the health level... Some of you will know I have lived a lot of my life with varying levels of disability. I have seen a doctor today who said she hopes to cure me. Watch this space! :)