Category: idea

Finsbury Park to Highgate by bike


“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato (427 BC – 347 BC) I went for a bicycle ride with my six-year-old daughter on Parkland Walk, a trail that used to be a train track. She’s new to riding and this was the…… Continue reading Finsbury Park to Highgate by bike

Back to the Future


“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” -Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) This is an experiment with watercolour. I have a new text to play with and am making the visuals in watercolour, in the hope that I can find my own way of using this medium.

Building Site


This is from a project for Peaceable Kingdom Press. Its part of ‘My Toolbox – A memory concentration game plus a challenging puzzle’. It was fun to work on something like this with many components, especially after working on picture books solely for the last couple of years.  I could do another one, (hint).

The struggle continues


The look of the blog struggle continues! We’ve changed again this month and are still looking for the theme that best works for us until there is enough spare time to design one ourselves. This coming week Ken is at a number of libraries in Brent doing Life Size workshops with children as part of…… Continue reading The struggle continues