Village newcomer Alex must vanquish a vicious feathered foe to finally feel at home in this madcap caper from comedy genius and bestselling author Jo Simmons. 

 Alex is not happy that his family are moving to the village of Noggings. He’s even less happy when he discovers that Noggings is under siege from a vicious jackdaw called Graham who has been dive-bombing kids in the school playground and terrorising locals. Surely, it’s only a matter of time before Alex himself is targeted. But can he defend himself against the flapping fiend and learn what’s really behind these angry avian attacks?

The Day of the Jackdaw, By Jo Simmons, Illustrated by Lee Cosgrove, Read by Will Close

Welcome to News from the Backyard Universe for the summer
of 2024 with me, Helena White. I’ve just returned from a trip to the United Kingdom, so I’m going to start the summer with backyard sounds from England. This time I’m in Buckinghamshire, a rural county in southern England. I’m staying with my cousin Janis who lives in a small village in a house with a large backyard.

News From the Backyard Universe UK Edition: Buckinghamshire

I'm staying in West Cork, where at sunset a load of rooks and jackdaws all take off and fly together at the same time, it's like a city of birds is above your head! I didn't manage to get a photograph so this photograph is of a rook from a few weeks ago.

2024-12-19 17_13 Rooks and Jackdaws

2024-12-20 12_19 Jackdaw

The single from my upcoming second album, "Jackdaw".

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I have a great distaste for not making music.

Here you’ll find all of the songs I have written , my improvisations, as well as a good few weird experiments. I aim to keep changing my music, hopefully never getting stuck in a musical rut or staying in the same genre too long. When I started it was all one guitar stuff (no overdubs), and very bad sound production (i.e, no sound production!), but since then I’ve started adding more instruments such as drums bass and saz and I’m slowly but surely getting better at sound production. And last but not least, I am slowly but surely getting into singing. I welcome all feedback whether good or bad. Or indifferent. I also want to hear from those who are apathetic about my music! I recorded three albums:

Lifespan (2018):
soundcloud.com/user-429211267/sets/lifespan
The Telescope (2019):
soundcloud.com/user-429211267/sets/the-telescope
On these first two there is no sound production as such because I didn’t understand that stuff at the time, then I recorded this one:

 Argentavis Magnificens (2021):
soundcloud.com/user-429211267/sets/electric-juniper-saz
at which point I was finally starting to get my head around the sound production thing. I’m currently working on an album called Neurotypical Empire, Vol 1: 2244, the first song of which I have released:

https://soundcloud.com/user-429211267/neurotypical-empire-vol-1-2244-edit-1-export-1

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