• Youtube has a wonderful new system. It looks at video sound tracks and through the power of its algorithms, produces a captions track for the hard of hearing. How great is that?

    Well, I download the text they analysed from my latest video – How to draw a running dog – and was amazed at what came out. See what you think:

    hi and welcome to this year and it’s going
    to have a huge even state attention have to
    these to develop of these upcoming based on
    but political cap and all that and uh
    the help find the cat and dog chased got that
    straight and them
    seventh based on that the forty two of another
    the deal with the caps this is after all the
    talk and and of a different kind of well the
    let’s get going
    has ever point that cancel right that
    the have
    to that could get
    this is going to be just like the the running
    kept thinking and to keep them on
    but this is don’t feed him and that
    it started out in the cold that I wanted to
    another is convicted the to doctors into the
    kind of packaging and stock exactly
    the studio want to recycle find the center
    from the court would rule of mobile could be the
    I can’t find the world turns them into into courtrooms

  • Here’s a new video that goes with the how to draw a running cat video, based on my book Cat and Dog. I tech this to five year olds and they do lovely drawings -so do their teachers, who are often quite surprised that they can draw! Go on have a go.

    Actually, this is a cunning plan to see wether cats or dogs are more popular on Youtube. So far on my drawing channel, dogs are way more popular. We shall see.

  • I must be mad, but I’m working on an online shop again. I’ve had so many problems with this in the past, I should have learned my lessons, But I’ve found a new shop system called prestashop which is pretty cool.

    All online shops have their problems and learning curves. They all have different ways of doing things. Prestashop is french, so it has a certain style about it and a certain amount of confusion. How ever much it is translated, the gallic mind is different and puts things in different places and works on different business analogies. I’m getting there. I keep telling myself that once it is up and running then the hard work is done, but that is not quite the case – there are always updates and security patches to be installed.

    Children often ask me at schools where they can buy my books. What they really want is a signed copy – which they can get from a personal store. I’ve decided that I will hold a specific shop stock, so I know when to re-order.