• Here’s a video that shows you how to draw an evil-looking tree that’s just perfect for halloween posters. This drawing comes from my Little Horrors book, The Sandman.

  • What a busy few weeks, and it’s not over yet. On Tuesday I went to visit Coalway Infants School, just up the road. My own children went there what seems like for ever ago and yet just like yesterday.

    I had a wonderfully warm welcome because hardly anything has changed since my children were there! A great team of teachers are still together after all these years. Schools change personnel so frequently and so change their style and culture. It’s so nice to see a sense of stability in these rocky times.

    Whatever you are doing at Coalway, please carry on. I had such fun with the children and they did some brilliant drawings too. Thanks for a great morning.

  • Coleford, where I live, has hit the national headlines in the past for being the earliest Christmas decorations in the country. Well, they have started going up this week.

    It’s no real surprise. They are put up on weekends by volunteers over the weeks before Christmas. It takes a while to sort it all out.

    When Santa arrives and turns them on, it is worth the wait. Coleford’s lights are quite magnificent, for such a little town, and we are all quite proud of them.

    I spotted the one on the picture, all ready to be connected up, above the entrance to the Rose Nursery, next to my opticians, where I ordered some incredibly expensive glasses this afternoon – they’d better be good!