Some Corney Humour to Help Us All Stay Sane Through the Lock-In

A friend has contacted me and said that previously during the lock-in, she had been enjoying the humour in my blog posts, but that the last post, about diving during in the cold-war, was far too serious a subject for the lock-in, so could I please post something more humorous too, in an effort to …

Cartoons for colouring

Now that we are all stuck at home with children and grandchildren, I’m sending out some more colouring-in pages. These cartoons were done by my son, Daniel, when he was 12 years old. Most of them were published in the children’s page of the Evening Post, Wellington's daily newspaper. Dan's Cartoons (PDF)

Time Travellers and Admiral Lord Nelson

The latest, well-illustrated, adventure of the Imagination Gang, came about because Julie and Tommy had been reading about the famous sea-battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and wanted to go back in time to get just a glimpse of the battle and the life of British sailors back then and everything worked perfectly, almost. Time Travellers …

The Time Travellers Get it Wrong

The latest, well-illustrated, adventure of the Imagination Gang, involves travelling back in time, to 1969 to watch the first landing on the surface of the moon, by the American astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It was a very exciting trip until something went seriously wrong and threatened to leave them marooned on the moon …

The Time Travellers Get it Right

The 10th of April is a very special day in New Zealand, because it commemorates the sinking of the Inter-Island ferry Wahine in 1968. The loss of that ship, and the 52 passengers who died, holds a special place in the hearts of all older New Zealanders and although the four children of the Imagination …

The Time Travellers Trip Two

Another, well-illustrated, Imagination Gang story to keep bored children and grandchildren, busy during the lock-in which concerns the most famous shipwreck in the whole world that even young children know something about. The Time Travellers Trip Two (PDF)

The Time Travellers

I have had a few messages asking if there are any more adventures of Tommy and the Imagination Gang. The answer is ‘yes’ there are more illustrated stories, but unfortunately there are no colouring-in pages. The Time Travellers (PDF, 1.33MB)

The Imagination Gang

Now that we are all confined at home, it is important to keep the children occupied and happy. So here is a little booklet of humorous illustrated stories that you can read to them, then print it off and get them to colour in the illustrations. Download The Imagination Gang (PDF, 3.89MB)

Time travel for beginners

The Imagination Gang were feeling rather bored. Since their space flight escapade they hadn't been able to think of any really exciting imagination games, when suddenly Dan — the youngest but the smartest when it came to computers — mentioned he’d built a time machine so that the gang could go back in history to …

Tommy’s ride to the duck pond

Tommy sat astride his uncle's new motorcycle, trying to look real cool, even though his feet only just reached the ground. John and Dan circled around admiringly, inspecting every aspect of the gleaming machine. Julie had remained indoors because she said she had to catch up with some homework. But the real reason Julie didn't go …