My favourite book as a child was - Han's Anderson's fairy tales illustrated by Jiří Trnka. It was bought brand new for me in 1967 - please don't do the maths! This was the book that made me long to illustrate children's books... an unfulfilled ambition which – as I mentioned in my previous blog – I'm taking steps to rectify by taking a Children's book illustration course with Lilla Rogers and Zoe Tucker, at MATS.com But... I digress ...Jiří Trnka was a puppet maker, illustra

On the 13th of June I wrote about Andy Warhol's illustrations. Click the image if you want to go there. Yesterday I went to what was our city library – it has moved up the road to the Storeyhouse – to an exhibition of Pop Art. And, I saw a "recipe book" open on... ... not any old "recipe book" but a recipe book called "Wild Raspberries", full of wonderful ludicrous recipes created by Andy Warhol and Suzie Frankfurt in 1959. For those who are interested – and why wouldn't you