This is the School Dog at my children’s school, who I saw this week sporting an Inflatable Anti-Scratch Collar. I’d never seen an inflatable one before – it looked like a big black doughnut.       

And this is a dog NOT wearing an inflatable collar. She’s not gloating though.

Like many people, since the shocking news of the recent earthquakes in Nepal I’ve been wondering what I could do to help.

I came up with the idea of a sponsored Drawathon at the school which will last for one school day, with other artist friends helping too.

All the children in the school will come and draw with us, and the money that we raise will go directly to a school in Patan, which is South of Kathmandu. We’ll draw onto one long piece of paper and have one class at a time working on it. I’m still finalising the details!