• Wow! I’ve just added up my drawing school videos and I’ve had over 100,000 watched worldwide. I think that’s a bit of a milestone. I’ve been plodding away adding my videos to teachertube as well. It’s a bit of a process as their US Servers area bit slow over here and I’ve had to resolve various issues to be able to upload sucessfully, But I’ve just realised that I’m serving about 300 videos a day on that site alone. On Youtube I’m serving a thousand videos a day now. It took me a year to reach my first one thousand videos!

    It’s fascinating how I’m beginning to build a world-wide community, drawers pals in the US, Australia, Croatia and Sweden to name but a few. I’ve had a couple of video responses for my win a signed book competition and the subscribers list is growing. It’s an awful lot of hard work, but worth it!

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    On Wednesday, I spent the day with my friends at Whitchurch CofE School. They were hosting their pen friends from, Welford School in Handsworth, Birmingham, after a reciprocal visit on Monday. Afetr viviting the quaint village Church, we all tramped up to the Forest School, a wonderful, overgrown wooded area, that is all laid out for the school to use as an outside classroom. We sat round the Campfire and Mrs Powell showed us how to make popcorn. It was such fun, I filmed it and speeded it up for you here.

    The sun was shining and it felt so Rural, I read Dylan Thomas’s Fern Hill to them all. I’m not sure what they made of it, but I bet they’ll come across it later in life and go, “Oh yeah!”

  • Axel Storm PictureWell, that’s the second book of Axel Storm finished. Phew! Off to the Post office with it tomorrow and away it goes to My Publishers, Orchard, in London.
    One more story to write, which I really must get down to this week. But I’m off to visit a school near Caerphilly tomorrow and on Wednesday I’m going to have a fab day with “my class” (that’s Rowan Class at Whitchurch School in Herefordshire), who are going off to visit a school in Handsworth in inner city Birmingham tomorrow. The Handsworth School are coming to Whitchurch on Wednesday and we are going to spend the day in their Forest School, having campfires and such like. Should be fascinating to see what the children that live in totally different areas make of each others lives!