• I know, they are really creepy, what with those dead, soulless eyes and, “couldn’t care who I eat,” attitude. Anyway, various people have asked for me to show how to draw sharks, so here’s the video. Enjoy-y-y-y-argh!

  • I’ve always used Apple Macs. I look after four windows machines for the family and don’t understand why anyone would want to use one!

    I hadn’t realised how old my computer is. I’ve been working away with it for about four years now. I have upgraded and upgraded it over the years. When I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, everything started to go a bit funny. Then yesterday, I saw an article that said, “Snow Leopard requires more memory than Leopard.” So, I got onto crucial.co.uk and ordered up more memory which, amazingly, arrived this morning.

    I popped it in my machine and – low and behold – it’s running really sweetly! Maybe I’ll get a bit more service out of the old girl yet. I drool over the new big iMacs, but I can’t really justify the expense. So, if your mac, or your PC for that matter, is slow and sluggish, treat it to a new chunk of memory. You may be pleasantly surprised!

  • On my way home from a walk in the forest this afternoon, I spotted a tiny doll’s cloggy kind of shoe on the pavement. I could have walked past, but something made me stop and pick it up.

    I examined it briefly – not really very interesting – part of me wanted to throw it away, but something made me hold onto it and I put it in my back pocket and carried on walking. Less than a minute later a story formed in my head based on that tiny little shoe

    When I got home I started working out the story as a mind map. You can see it and the toy shoe in the picture. Of course I’m not going to show you the whole plan for the story because – well, that would be telling!

    It is amazing how tiny little things can grow so quickly into something so amazing as a fully formed idea ready to draw pictures and write words – ready to bring the whole thing to life.