Hope Estella WhitmoreOn toddlers, and being a noticerIn The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger, best known for Midnight Chicken, the heroine Isobel Petty is ‘a noticer.’ She doesn’t have a…Feb 14Feb 14
Hope Estella Whitmoreremind me (poem for David.)when I am snotty faced with piggy tears,Oct 22, 2021Oct 22, 2021
Hope Estella WhitmoreNarnia, a love poem‘But do you really mean, Sir, that there could be other worlds all over the place, just around the corner, like that?’ — C.S. Lewis, The…Aug 1, 2021Aug 1, 2021
Hope Estella WhitmorePeople who helped me across the roadAround this time last year, I developed Dromophobia, an irrational and total terror of crossing the road. It came from nowhere. A van…Jul 31, 2021Jul 31, 2021
Hope Estella WhitmoreGlad ragsOne day, when I was seventeen our neighbour Liz,May 18, 2021May 18, 2021
Hope Estella WhitmoreWalking StickI own an electric eel-blue walking stick, or a walking stick I thought was the colour of electric eels until I Googled them just now, and…Apr 16, 2021Apr 16, 2021
