One or two things to mention today, firstly an animated film I recently treated myself to called ‘The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’ which I love because everything has been rendered in stop frame motion, including the human actors. It’s a telling of the classic children’s fairy tale but in such a way that it becomes deliciously dark and slightly surreal, for instance the way in which Tom Thumb’s mother actually gives birth to him, something I can’t remember any of my look and read books dwelling on as a child. Below is the first in the series of clips which are available on You-tube. Look it up!!

Secondly I’m a big fan of Florence and the Machine and have a great desire to float around on a sparkly paper moon, hence