I’m back at Singlegate Primary School in Colliers Wood this term - this time the project is to enhance the library on a theme of birds. Step one: making these papier mache birds to hang in a flock - they have a button on the base to hold the wire in place…we’ll also be making bird books, a nest-like wall hanging and cushions. The children had some nice ideas to make clouds, rain and eggs too.

I went to visit Ross at JMG studio to look at the letterpress equipment. We are planning a letterpress collaboration based on the river poems made by the families I worked with earlier in the year at Morden Hall Park.

I spent the afternoon sketching at the Grant Museum of Zoology, part of University College London. It’s an amazing collection of zoological specimens and other oddities, such as the mid-18th century Blaschka glass specimens - beautifully detailed life size models of snails, slugs, jellyfish and squid. Other favourite items included a disembodied chimpanzee hand, a jar of moles (rather like a jar of sweets but more macabre, with little pink paws instead of wrappers), and a large model of an elephant’s heart.