Lynne Chapman workshop

Me and Charlie had a fab time at the Linton book festival last weekend. It was great we did lots of running around with all our new friends and Steve was doing lots of story telling - he was reading my lovely books, of course! You can find them at www.haroldtheplatypus.co.uk Anyway we went along to a workshop (we weren't very keen to start with, workshop sounds a bit like hard work and we don't like that! But it was really good fun!). The workshop or funshop (as we called it) was with a smashing lady called Lynne Chapman. She is brilliant at drawing, almost as good as Molly and Jess(well we are biased as Molly and Jess were kind enough to do the gorgeous drawings of us on our adventures). Me and Charlie are top drawers now, although Charlie doesn't seem to be able to get my beak quite right! Off to do some drawings, Lynne says practise makes perfect, as we think she has done alot of practise! Laters H X

Book festival

Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but Steve has been writing some stories about the cool adventures that me and Charlie have had. There are 5 stories now: Harold and the mermaid Harold saves Christmas Harold on safari Harold in space and Harold wins gold Well, the people organising the book festival thought that stories we're so good that they asked Steve to go and read the stories to the children at the festival. How exciting for the children to meet me and the person that wrote the lovely stories about me, all at the same time! It was great, we all had lots of fun. Mandy brought cheese and pickle sandwiches for lunch (our favourite, yum). She said I might have gotten a bit over-excited, all that running around with all my fans was tiring. Another great day. I' m off to bed. Laters H X