The Writer and the Wizard.

J.K.Rowling was born in England in 1965. She loved reading, and wrote her first story,

“Rabbit”, when she was only six years old. She studied French at university, then worked as a

secretary in London. She had the idea for Harry Potter when she was on a train. “ Harry just

walked into my head,” she said later. She started writing the first Harry Potter book the next

day.

In 1992 she went to live in Portugal for three years. She wrote Harry Potter in the morning,

And worked as an English teacher in the afternoon and in the evening. She got married to

a Portuguese TV journalist and had a daughter called Jessica.

Then she returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh, in Scotland. She was unemployed at that

time, and wrote in cafes because they were warmer than her small flat. After five years she finished the first book, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” The books sold millions of

copies all over the world, and Joanne Kathleen Rowling became very famous. She is now very

rich, but she still writes in cafes!

The family who sailed around the world.

Engineer Jeff Dent, 46, and wife Alison,44, always loved sailing. They first met at a

Sailing club and their dream was to sail around the world.

So, when Jeff became unemployed in January 1999, they decided to make their dream

come true. Alison left her job as a teacher and they bought an eight – metre sailing boat, the

Charlotte Rose. They wanted to sail from Btitain to South Africa, then to Australia, across

The South Pacific to Argentina, and back to Britain across the Atlantic.

They weren’t the first people to make this journey, but this time there was one big

Difference – Jeff and Alison took their three children with them: ten-year-old Oliver, Charlotte,

who was seven, and three-year-old Danial.

Yesterday, after two years and 48000 kilometres, they arrived back in Britain. To their

Surprise, hundreds of friends and journalists were there to meet them.

So how was it? “ It was difficult,” said Alison, “ but it was the best two years of my

life.” The children also loved it. “ We saw things that most people never see,” said Oliver.

“ One day we got up and there were three whales near the boat… that was fantastic!”

There was one question everyone wanted to ask. Did they argue a lot? Jeff answered.

“ Of course we argued sometimes, but we were a great team. It was an amazing journey.”

My life in Thailand

Street food in Bangkok

I love Thai street food – it’s good and it’s cheap and it’s always delicious. I sometimes eat breakfast, lunch and dinner on the street in Bangkok. In fact, I never cook at home!

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