Poor Benni is freezing his knees off on my new website PenniAndBenni
You will also notice that there is a countdown, letting you know there are 15 days to go til, “Something special comes this way.”
That’s when the whole point of Penni and Benni becomes clear.
Listening to the news just now, about MPs being jostled and abused while trying to get into Parliament, makes me realise just what a Pandora’s Box the referendum turned out to be.
The referendum was supposed to be advisory, just to find out what the country wanted, assuming it would return a good majority to remain.
But oh my goodness, look what curiosity did. Look at all the forces that have been unleashed. All the attitudes and positions we were blissfully unaware of, that have been emboldened.
If you are wondering how to explain Brexit to little ones, you could do no better than to go back to the original warning story of them all.
Teach children now about when to leave well alone, so they don’t make the same decisions when they grow up and take control themselves.
Tell them that Parliament was so curious to find out what the people thought, they decided to ask them. The referendum was like a Pandora’s Box, they knew should be left well alone – their job was to make the choice themselves, but Parliament was just too curious, it had to lift the lid and find out. It never expected what was going to happen, how their failure to govern and make decisions has brought us to this.
I’m currently working of the finished artwork for my forthcoming middle-grade novel, Walker – the boy who can talk to dogs. It’s a bit of a thriller and adventure and has lot and lots of dogs in it!
I love it and am putting together the the beginnings of Walker’s next adventure while I’m doing the artwork and my creative juices are flowing and my mind and visual memory filled with the characters.
Meanwhile my other project goes o hold a bit.
Other project?
Yes, Later this month I will be launching a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to publish anew picture book called Special Delivery. The story revolves around Penni and Benni, who have their own website already!
I began the website before Christmas to really get these characters in my head. 
They have no idea what is about to hit them, later this month. It is a bit weird posting blogs, as if I were these two characters. Penni is a fashion blogger – her role has quite changed my outlook – I now linger longer over the fashion pages in the colour magazines!
Go and have a look at Penni and Benni in their quiet, before the storm hits them and why not join their instagram account?