True facts about ferrets: Ferrets are half-light creatures who sleep about eighteen to twenty hours of the day, and very active for two hours twice a day. Ferrets also awaken roughly every four hours for a few minutes to eat, relieve themselves and play briefly. […]
Come rain or come shine, the rainbow badger can be spotted by lucky chancers out on walks in the Norfolk broads. It is believed that their peculiar colouring is due to their steadfast diet of gold spy beetles, luminescent blue frogs and perhaps even more […]
This exceptionally shy creature is rumoured to live in the depths of Somerset woodlands – and may have been spotted in times immemorial, linking it closely to the legend of Arthur and his knight. Local lore even implies that Lancelot wooed Guinevere by taming a very […]
I got a liiiiiiittle bit obsessed with collecting leaves last autumn… The thing is, they’re really pretty when you start paying attention, a bit like snowflakes, except you can’t see snowflakes with the naked eye and they’re not in colour, right? Bo-ring! Anyway, it all […]
The Veees is a brilliant band from Bristol – they are all about femality in power, seduction and cheek. I heart them. Singer Anne was keen to showcase what Wonder Women they truly are – and so I helped a bit with the visualisation bit, and […]
I’ve always loved Barbapapa – and my kids have taken the bait big time – which is great, as it’s very imaginative and also it’s in FRENCH, which is forcing these blighty bilingual little buggers to practice la langue de mon pays. This was born […]
And when the elderflower buds end their delicious bloom, these gorgeous pods appear… It made me think of simple pleasures, like dancing round a tree to celebrate everything that is good about summer… This is again working on a very small scale, with each create […]
This one was definitely a tricky one as had to work very fast – the delicate and tiny (think grain of rice tiny!) flowers start wilting as soon as picked up from the tree, and had to be detached one by one with very thin […]
In the Spooners series, let me introduce you to someone a little complicated – but rewarding in the end. There is a little bit of controversy here about the spelling of Pavia’s surname. Is she a Dutch aristocrat? Should this be Hentersinn? At present, frankly, […]
Karuski's little shop of colours 