[youtube=http://youtu.be/6eJJHIkddcU] Mimosa Pudica also known as "shy plant", "Touch-me-not" and "I died, I lived" I was totally awed when shown this weed on our stay at Mindful Farm in the North of Thailand. Moving plants have always held a fascination, I think ever since seeing Little...
Snorkelling in deep water around Tatchai island- a beautiful white sanded place. We've both faced some deep water fears on this trip including some pretty hairy Speed Boat and Speed Catamaran trips across the Gulf of Thailand. Being purely pool swimmers the idea of being...
There are these tiny crabs on the beaches of Thailand that scurry spherical parcels of sand back and forth from their burrows creating amazing sand 'crop circles'. The crabs are tiny and so easy to miss but as I walked the sand today I caught...
"As we jot down ideas, they shift and grow, spawning new ideas...
[caption id="attachment_707" align="alignnone" width="500"] The Floating Market - Damoen Saduak[/caption] It's our 8th day in Bangkok and the souvenirs on offer are still coming thick and fast. We've more or less resisted the 'Fans that turn into hats', the 'Packs of Spices' and 'The pencils that...
Bangkok is a hectic city and we're in the tourist centre! Surrounded by touts, bars, and fried insects. Today we escaped to the amazing Chatuchak Market where you can buy anything and everything from puppies to iphone cases to solid carved furniture. Alongside the market...
Teachers take part in an Inset at Discover Children's Story Centre where they got to taste an Actor Interruption first hand. I have been running quite a few teacher insets of late through @Discover_Story sharing some practice that we've developed through the Catching Words project and...
I've Just had an explosive assembly performance at Keir Hardy Primary where a student told us about his three legged cat! I love performing new work at schools it's by far the best way to find out whether the writing works for the age group...
Here is a short documentary about the behind the scenes process of working on Tree Child with The Spark Children's Arts Festival. I feel very passionately about encouraging people to use their libraries and so was so pleased to be commissioned for this project. Theatre makers...
Check out my latest poetry video and accompanying Key Stage 2 resource as developed by The Poetry Society. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/77003431]...