The Diary of a Tame Otter

My book 'Funnily Enough' features the antics of our first two tame otters Bee and Jims. Rudi, another hand-reared otter, can still be found wriggling about inside my mother's clothing.

Having appeared at the Royal Welsh Show he will be at the Royal Berkshire Show, near Newbury this weekend, 19th & 20th September.

He is currently staring in the role of Otto in the movie Scottish Mussel opposite Talulah Riley, Martin Compston and Harry Enfield. It was premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June.

To watch 'Scottish Mussel' online, please click here 

If you would like to meet Rudi, please click here for

the 2015 Diary of a Tame Otter

The Otters this Summer

Our tame otters, who romp through the pages of Funnily Enough, are still going strong. The have a huge number of fans including Her Majesty the Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales, Sir David Attenbrough, Joanna Lumley, David Bellamy, Angela Ripon, Michael Meacher MP and Michael Fish the weather man.

In 2013 they appeared on ‘Wild’ on CBBC, 

at the CLA Game Fair and Royal Welsh Show and in the Sunday Telegraph. 

They also enjoyed meeting people in Devon at the Honiton Show,

at Frampton-on-Severn in Gloucestershire and The Romsey Show in Hampshire. 

~ click here for their diary ~

Parrots, pirates and fancy dress ~

I f you can see yourself as a porcupine,

a Pink Lady

or even a panda,

whether you go to cold party

a gold party

or just want to dance, 

dressing up will raise the spirits and must be good for the health.

If you can imagine yourself as Captain Flint, the town of Hastings in East Sussex is hosting a massive fancy dress party this Sunday 21st July ~ Hastings Pirate Day ~ They promise a parrot-flying display and a pirate ship donated by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL American football team. Beware, there may be more than 15,000 pirates in town - they are current world record holders' for this sort of thing. 

Download the programme of events here.