This Sunday, Allison and I will be doing a storytelling drop-in for the Scottish Wildlife Trust at the Falls of Clyde reserve at New Lanark. We’re getting paid in the form of a hedgehog house (which we’ll get to help make). In preparation for the workshop, I made a hedgehog hole in the gate of our […]
Read more "Hedgehog House as Payment"Getting out of bed has been a challenge the past couple of days. Despite yesterday morning’s meteorological prediction of 0% probability of precipitation, a glance out the window showed heavy drizzle being blown sideways: what we affectionately call horizontal rain. In July! This morning (17% chance of rain for Edinburgh) was slightly better with only […]
Read more "Rainy days are for stories…How Animals Came into the World"One of my favourite things about storytelling is getting to go to places I’ve never been before. Today, Allison and I were at Cuningar Loop in Glasgow, telling stories in a teepee, sometimes with the sun beaming in on us, other times with the rain pounding down on the canvas shell. Cuningar Loop is one of […]
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