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The Museum of Dust continuing on its travels
Adding to the Museum is always an adventure … meeting people on my journeys and discovering stories about a location, event or a character. My miniature dustpan and brush, essential for the collection process, has to be replaced after a … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Travels, Workshops
Tagged angels, dust, events, Fenland, Museum of Dust, St Wendreda, St Wite, talks, Whitchurch Canonicorum, workshops
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Punch & Judy celebration May 2026
The first Punch and Judy show in Covent Garden was first mentioned by Samuel Pepys in 1662, but more recently Mr and Mrs Punch and family were joined by other puppets in the churchyard of St Paul’s Church. When my … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged covent garden, Pollocks Toy Museum, Punch & Judy, puppets, Samuel Pepys, St Paul's Church Covent Garden
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The Museum of Dust travels to Doncaster
Last week it was out with bubble wrap and string again as the Museum of Dust had an exciting invitation to head for an ArtBomb event in Doncaster and needed to be carefully wrapped for its journey. An experimental festival … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Museum of Dust
Tagged ArtBomb, Doncaster, Doncaster art events, Doncaster Unitarian Church, Museum of Dust
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Robots, bots and AI
It’s true I have a penchant for robots … the clockwork ones in particular, but definitely not the crawler bots who’ve been visiting my site recently. You know who you are … or possibly you don’t, although I’ve heard bot … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Events
Tagged Association of Illustrators, bots, childrens books, copyright, crawler bots, Faber Children's Books, hands off our copyright, pen and ink drawings, Pull the Plug, Robotina Finds Out, robots, Royal Literary Fund, Society of Authors, stop the slop, the Good Law Project, the People's Assembly
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Snowy
Years ago I worked part-time at a Camden bookshop, before having my first series of children’s books published by Grafton. The bookshop is long gone, its site now occupied by a Tortilla takeaway.My Saturday task was to cash up the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Drawings, Events, Writing
Tagged Camden Town, childrens books, competition, Fascinating facts, handwriting, Herge, London bookshops, notebook drawing, Snowy, Somerset House, Tintin
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Pantomime time … oh yes it is!
This week I was invited to an extraordinary pantomime performed by the Fitzrovia Community at the Soho Poly directed and written by multi-talented Lucia Jaffer, who’d formerly asked me to run workshops at recent Fitzrovia Fetes. ‘A Curious Dream’, inspired by … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and workshops, some involving a Hat of Surprise
It’s not as if I usually wear my Hat of Surprise, but this hat is sometimes an important part of one of my many comic strip workshops, including those at schools, the Institute of Physics, the Guardian, Ledbury Poetry Festival, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Workshops
Tagged children's book illustrator, childrens book author, comic strips, festivals, graphic storytelling, Hat of Surprise, magician's hat, museum workshops, paper houses, portraits, school workshops, storytelling, top hat, visual narrative, visual storytelling, workshops
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Creaky clockwork collection at the Art Workers Guild 2025
What do strange scissors, miniature beds, creaky clockwork, novelty erasers, tools of the stuccatore and coffin photos all have in common? They’re some of the thirty subjects of obscure enthusiasms who appeared, with their owners, one day recently in Bloomsbury … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Exhibitions
Tagged Art Workers Guild, children's drawings, clockwork, clockwork dinosaur, clockwork toys, creaky, keys, Mike Leigh, Robotina Finds Out, robots, Table Top Museums, toys
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Eyes
This summer has been a time of SK eye adjustments. Frustrating as initial eye surgery took longer than expected to heal. Addition surgery tbc. But hopefully the end result will be improved eye power, although currently time looking at a … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Exhibitions
Tagged Art Workers Guild, clockwork eyes, exhibitions, eye power, eye surgery, eyes, GORT, London events, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Table Top Museum
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