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Jonathan has made a video of me reading White Rabbit White Snow for the Storytelling Superstar competition for World Book Day   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgRHH4AR-A4

This is what annoys people about the internet - I copy my story from a word document and in the Blog Post it has squares for the punctuation and I have no idea why (how frustrating!) Seems to be solved by closing and reopening browser (thanks to son for advice!) and also copying from Word cut and paste apparently often causes problems.

So the three grown-up children went their different ways – one to University, one travelling the world, and one to work in the local cinema.  Their mother warned them; whatever you do beware of the big bad wolf that is debt.  But they just laughed at her and said ‘We’ll be alright, we can make ourselves safe from debt’ The first son had a student loan for his fees and maintenance but it wasn’t enough for rent on accommodation in London. His nice bank offered him a student loan and said ‘don’t worry we’ll hardly charge you any interest’ but at the end of the degree, he couldn’t get a job and the bank said ‘you’re not a student now, so we can charge you much more interest’, and his Job Seekers Allowance wouldn’t even cover the interest on his debt.  He had to move in with his second brother. The second son travelled the word taking part-time jobs labouring or farming wherever he went, but then in Goa he got appendicitis and had surgery and had to be flown back to the UK having