Mousie

For his final production Paper Cuts created a Flash animation called The Hungry Mouse: Read More...

Birdie

Following a tip from Lord Lipson I went up to Freedom Fields after college yesterday and took a photo of a bird painted on the side of an old hut by the road Read More...

Dog/man

Wallace and Gromit are a couple - the single male and his trusty canine companion. Read More...

Man and dog

Along the Laira bike track at high tide, a group of young kids shout out It's an old man not an old woman! Up towards the wreck of the Ocean Maid there's a white-haired man sitting on the path, combing the hair of his sheepdog with long silky strokes. Read More...

Kids' stuff

Anthropomorphism: as a small child did I imagine inanimate things to be 'alive' as part of my developing mental abilities and relationship with the world as I grew up, or was it in response to prompts by others - children and adults? Read More...

Mount Edgcumbe

A trip to south east Cornwall with my mum who's staying for the weekend. Inside the country park Sarah and her son peer through the gun emplacements - they're sure they saw a bat inside the battery. Read More...

Monkey snatcher faces jail

On page 10 of today's Guardian newspaper: a man kidnapped a squirrel monkey called Spongebob from Chessington World of Adventures. When he was rescued, Spongebob had to be sent to Battersea zoo 'for his own safety' as the other monkeys didn't want him back because 'he smelled different'. Read More...

Good companions

Anthropomorphism means giving human characteristics to animals, plants, inanimate objects or imaginary creatures. Read More...

A juicy lemur banquet

Some drawings of lemurs from the telly: Lemurs of Madagascar BBC2. Read More...

The beast in all of us

Animal characters today. One of my favourite sessions. We name all the animated animal characters we can think of. People take it in turns to write the names up on the whiteboard. There are so many we run out of space. Read More...