• If you are doing #inktober2020 and need a bit of inspiration and help, don’t forget that beavers are rodents. Follow the video and learn how to draw a beaver too.

    #inktober ##inktober2020 #inktoberrodent #inktoberday6 #rat #rodent

  • Join amazing childrens’ author, Viv French, and wonderful storyteller, Renita Boyle and myself on Saturday when we will be creating a story LIVE! with your help.

    So, WE NEED YOUR HELP!

    It’s not just the audiences who are missing the Wigtown Book Festival this year – the authors are missing the audiences too!

    In this fun-filled family hour, three of Wigtown’s most devoted and adored children’s authors take on the 60-minute book challenge. That’s right! Taking up their roles as author (Vivian French), illustrator (Shoo Rayner) and storyteller (Renita Boyle) they battle towards creating, illustrating and telling a story based on Wigtown in just one hour. But they need your help – tune in to help shape the story and make your mark on Big Wig history.

    How on Earth are we going to do it when we are in completely different parts of the country? Tune in to find out!

    Sponsored by The Old Bank Bookshop

  • I’ve started a new story channel on youtube, called Learn English Through Story.

    I noticed that many videos that are of a similar length and age bracket to mine are aimed at english language learning interest groups – doing the same as me, sharing the text on screen to follow along with the reading.

    So I thought it would be an interesting experiment to do the same – especially as some of the offerings are quite dire – and some in terrible english!

    It would help me so much if everyone that reads this follows this link and subscribes to the channel and watches one of my videos. It would help to get the channel noticed by YouTube’s algorithm and start attracting some views. It’s so hard getting a new channel off the ground – I need all the support I can get!

    As well as my stories, I’m planning to post some British classics. Today I posted Beatrix Potter’s – The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher. I’m planning to work my way through all her books.

    This is going to be a fun project so do please help by subscribing now!