What I do when I'm not writing children's books
I'm an actor and a puppeteer. I have Tim Webb, Artistic Director of OILY CART to thank for my puppetry skills. In 1989, I joined Oily Cart as an actor and spent my first show with a puppet dog inside a CHEST OF DRAWERS! 
Mrs Poopdeck, GOBBLE AND GOOK, Oily Cart 1992
A puppeteer's life is mostly spent inside a small space as I was to be reminded years later when I moved in to the BBC's TIKKABILLA house. I am the original voice and puppeteer of TAMBA on Tikkabilla.
This dog puppet is modelled on my own dog and Little Dog, the character in HIC! who plays hide and seek with Lucy and Cow.
I now have an agent. For more details about my acting work, see my profile on the agent's website.