I can’t believe how often I’ve been up and down to Reading this Spring without realising that the Museum of Reading has an exhibition about my favourite children’s author, Michael Bond, who grew up in Reading. You can find out more about it on the official Paddington Bear website.

There’s a choice of prompts this week:

1. Write about your favourite book or character in a book when you were a child

2. Write about something you have left behind, like luggage at the station, from the perspective of the thing that’s been left. Is it waiting for you to return to it, or looking forward to starting out on its own? What will happen if it remains unclaimed and how does it feel about it?

If you want, you could combine both options and write about a book that you’ve lost from the perspective of one of the characters in it.