• I came second at the Wigtown’s Got Talent competition on Saturday! (I hadn’t really intended to – I was merely padding out the bill!) The winners were the wonderful MacFarlane sisters, who were rightly described as Wigtown mermaids with angel’s voices. (That gives me an idea for a book!)

    Any way for your amusement, here’s a video of my performance that was taken by Peter Bestel, proud dad of last year’s winner, Zoe Bestel. I made a video of her fabulous, winning song, 35 missed messages, last year which you can see here.

     

  • I’m very tired after a long weekend entertaining children and adults at the Wigtown Book Festival http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/ so this is a quick video for the junkies who won’t cope if I don’t do one!

  • I thought it might be fun to work my way throughout the chess set and show you how to draw all the pieces on the board. What better place to start than the lowest of the low ands the simples of them all – a pawn?