All as it should be, once more.

Thanks to my ever helpful web host, http://hosthere.co.uk/ (manned by real people), I now have my domain name back again.

Did anyone watch Lost Land of the Jaguar, on BBC1 last night? Tremendous stuff, with howler monkeys and piranhas and even a jaguar. I snapped this capybara at Marwell Zoo, to give this post the right sort of South American flavour...

A Plug for the Cotswold Wildlife Park

I love lemurs - they're only found in Madagascar and the surrounding islands, and there are several different species. They're primates - like monkeys, apes and us. The Cotswold Wildlife Park has recently opened its Madagascar exhibit, where you can walk through a planted area full of Madagascan birds and lemurs. It's absolutely delightful - I took this photograph there, and I would like to recommend it to everyone. http://www.cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk/park/madagascar/index.php

My website is now back up, although it currently only works as www.elizabethkay.co.uk, and not www.elizabeth-kay.co.uk, as printed in my books.

Website troubles

If you've reached here by some circuitous route and can't link back to my website, it's because it's down for the moment. I hope to have it back up and running soon - in the meantime, if you want to contact me, use elizabethkay@hotmail.co.uk

Hay-on-Wye

The Hay-on-Wye Festival is a treat for all book lovers, although the weather this year was absoutley frightful, and the car park was a mud wallow. This is me signing autographs with Penny Dolan, whose latest book The Third Elephant, published in 2007, is all about a little wooden elephant who follows his dream... to India!

The kids we met were extremely nice, too - there are so many avid readers out there, who ask really tricky questions and expect really good answers...

Lilywithers advises...

Dear Lilywithers,
I'm a carrionwing, and my absolute FAVE hobby is screeching in thunderstorms.You want to hear my problem? One word: TONSILITIS! Help!
Stormcrow

Hiya, Stormcrow.
Whatever you do, don't be tempted to try one of Snakeweed's remedies. Tripleheads recommend pukeberry sauce as a cure for just about everything, but I think you should just shut up for a bit.
Cheers, Lilywithers

Back again!

The hot sunny weather has been good news for snakes. I haven't seen anything of the adders this year yet, but I watched a grass snake hunting for over an hour. It didn't catch anything, though.

Another problem for Lilywithers

Dear Lilywithers, I'm a female brazzle. I'm only young, so my historian skills aren't amazing, but I am a bit of a perfectionist. I had spent ages using my father's dirtboard to write out historical facts about spells and things like that, and when I had finished I showed my father. It was the first big fact page I had ever written so my he gave me a big celebration. I was so proud of myself that I read through it all again, and I spotted a MISTAKE!!! It was terrible! Now I'm checking my work through so much that I'm working really slowly... I know it's not much, but I get a panic attack every time I think that I've done something wrong...PLEASE HELP ME!!Thunderwing

Hi Thunderwing, You need to learn to chill out. Try having a dust bath. Dirt boards have other uses too, you know!
Cheers, Lilywithers