So I have a guest blog over at Fangtastic Books today on fox shifters – funny timing, considering the news that a fox got into a London house and mauled twin baby girls over the weekend.

Mum visited Friday-Monday. We went to the garden centre where she bought 8 bags of compost and topsoil and some plants for my brother's house. Then we walked around the marsh and visited Barnby Hall, which has the largest collection of water lilies in the wild in Europe (or so they claim). The place was...