The National Trust London Voices workshops start again next week with families from Liberty school in Mitcham, with a theme of ‘journeys’. Each family is going to make a boat like this sample I’ve been testing, and they will decorate it with their own family stories ready for a boat race on the Wandle at Morden Hall Park in March. Today I had a meeting at the park with sculptor Simon Kent - he will be creating a huge carved wooden ’story boat’, and I will be working with him to incorporate some of the families’ work into the design. This project is going to be very exciting!

Myrtle wanted to make sure her head didn’t get cold.

Maxwell and Myrtle have been playing at home.

A page from my sketchbook…Jill brought me a new year present of a bag of doll limbs she found strewn all over the road. I’ll definitely make them into something one day.