I have spent the last few weeks writing and
illustrating a Puzzle Trail around Rodmarton Manor, an extraordinary Arts and
Crafts house near Cirencester. The Puzzle Trail will be part of an event called
Crafts Alive: The Gloucestershire Guild
at Rodmarton Manor which takes place between Wednesday 5th and
Sunday 9th September, and includes exhibitions by makers from the
Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen and others, workshops, talks and a puppet
show. There is also a Jousting Tent (but I’m not sure how much jousting will be
going on it). Tickets are £8 and available here and on the door. There's more information here .
Rodmarton Manor is an amazing house, built
between 1909 and 1929, and one of the last country houses in Britain to be
built and furnished entirely by hand by local craftsmen using local stone and
timber. As part of my research, I was lucky to be taken around the house and
gardens by historian Mary Greensted and have my attention brought to many
unusual details and interesting stories connected to the house.
The Puzzle trail is a leaflet that you can pick
up by the door for free and is full of little drawings and rhyming clues like
this:
Many thanks to Liz Lippiatt and The
Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen for inviting me to do this. Do come along to the exhibition if you're in the area (and try your wits on the Puzzle Trail!)
Here’s my page in the brochure, including one
of my gardening cartoons:

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I’ve recently had some more cartoons in Private Eye (numbers 1474, 1475, 1476). Here's one of them, set 250 million years ago:
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