What an exciting time. A total of 5 local Hampshire outlets have shown real interest in selling my book, and two of them have already got books in stock. To see my book on display in a shop is a rather surreal but exciting experience.

In a few short days I will finally see my Chinese coversheet for Global Warming for Young Minds, which means that it is ready for the book exhibition in Beijing later in the year. Watch this space - more to come about China!

As some of you may know, I am involved with Carbon-info.org.

Carbon-info.org has for some time supported a Blue-eyed black lemur project, which is being run by the international ACCEL (http://www.aeecl.org/index.shtml).

I am pleased and proud to tell you that we this month was able to contribute a cheque for £140.00, which will go towards planting trees in Madagascar. The trees will over time turn into new forest, which will benefit the blue-eyed black lemur – providing habitat, food and shelter.

Anyone who is interested can read more on: http://www.carbon-info.org/tree_planting/Plant_and_Save.htm

Summer and the world almost grinds to a halt. We are harvesting beans, spinach and radishes from the garden. The first tomatoes are almost ready to eat too. Lovely. Home-grown vegs are so crisp and full of flavour - they really don't compare with the vegs you buy in the Supermarket. And how can it. There is a massive difference being picked too early, driven on a truck across Europe before finding it way into a supermarket and onto my plate, compared to picking it and eating it just a few hours later. Yummy!

On the book front things are moving forward too. My local Waterstone bookstore will stock my book, which is fantastic. What is interesting is that the store manager repeated the same advise I have had from three other sources: go speak to primary schools in the area. And that is exactly what I am going to do.
I would be a little silly if I did not listen to good advise like that.

So, I am now in the process of planning how to best approach local primary schools. Would like to offer to hold a small talk for the children, if the school would allow this. Would perhaps also allow me to sell a few books at the same time. Would really allow me to spread the word.

Flemming
Summer 2010