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Peterhead Christmas Lights

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After Mallku’s party it was a quick tidy up and off to Peterhead for the Light Up Peterhead event! There was so much on and I was lucky to be telling Christmas stories in the Muckle Kirk. (Just look at those stained glass windows!!)

Of course this required a quick costume change from Viking to Christmas Tree Fairy. See I’ve got my shiny tinsel crown and aathing!

I had some wonderful audiences throughout the afternoon and had the help of Fizzy the Fairy and my wee Tomte/Nisse pal – who is insisting he is not a gnome or a gonk!

A Viking Birthday Party

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Well WHAT a busy day I had yesterday! In the morning I had the pleasure of telling Viking tales to Mallku and his guests for his 8th birthday out at Haddo House. After the stories they made clay tablets with their names in Norse runes – and what a great job they did!

Here’s a photo of me with my pal Bjarni who needs to be told that Vikings did not wear helmets with horns OR Ikea rugs over their shoulders 😛 (Also note the amazing birthday cake in the background!)

HANDSS Tea Party for the SISF Story Ripple

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The Reid Queen O Aiberdeen hid a grand time on Tuesday night!

I had my second session at HANDSS as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival ‘s #SISFStoryRipple😃

Can anyone guess the theme?

We all had a tea party with yummy cakes and the Queen announced that she enjoyed it so much no one would be allowed to leave unless they gave her the present of…. A STORY!

Luckily our friends at HANDSS. Are great at making up stories. We had a quest for seaweed, a gift for an imp, gold for a troll, shrinking potion, magical scones and a tiny but firey dragon who managed to save everyone from a land of ice and snow!

To top it all off, HANDSS have been telling jokes to each other and putting them up online as part of their Ripple Good Deed. Every day in November- that’s 30 jokes recorded, animated and uploaded to social media! A massive round of applause for all involved 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Telling Stanley Robertson’s Stories at Greenbrae School

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Yaay! What a great session I had this morning with the P6s at Greenbrae Primary School!
Here’s a quick selfie taken after tales and ballads about the treasures of the earth, death in love and gory revenge!
Thanks you lot for being a great audience!

This session was my second last one for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival‘s #SISFStoryRipple of 2022!
The pupils will be writing some tales of their own, inspired by Stanley Robertson’s stories and they will then take their stories into a local care home to share for their Good Deed

Stanley’s Stories at Greenbrae Primary School

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I’m heading off to Greenbrae Primary School tomorrow to tell stories to P5/6 as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival’s 2022 Story Ripple. ( #SISFStoryRipple)

Their current theme is “Could You Be An Artist,” so I’m going to be telling them some of the stories I learned from the wonderful Stanley Robertson.

Stanley was a storyteller, ballad singer, piper and an inspiration to anyone who wanted to learn the tales and songs he taught. He was a Scottish Traveller and spent many years as a fish filleter in Aberdeen before writing 7 books of his stories in Scots, Doric and Cant as well as traveling the world telling his tales.

I was privileged to learn many of the songs and stories he shared and here’s a photo from May 2009 of the last time I shared a stage with him. I’m looking forward to sharing some of my favourites that I learned from Stanley with the pupils 🙂

Hazlehead Primary School’s SISF Ripple Visit

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It may have been a dreich day yesterday, but the pupils of P6/7 at @hazlehead_primary_pc fair cheered me up with their enthusiasm for their stories and workshop!

The school is exploring different cultures through their sports and so we had two tales – one about a Sumo wrestler and another about a Heeholua (Hawaiian Lava Sledding) race!

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Middleton Park Primary School Parent Council’s SPOOKTACULAR!

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What a wonderful night I had last night at Middleton Park Nursery and Primary School – the Parent Council and the school organised an amazing evening for all the pupils (and their grown ups!)

As well as telling spooky stories with the help of an annoying fairy (you know who!) and a grumpy skeleton (aye he was there too), I got to judge the Halloween poster competition – which was really tricky with all the impressive entries!

The school got some funding from the Scottish International Storytelling Festival‘s #SISFStoryRipple and in return their good deed included a book hunt around the school grounds (books all donated by families and locals in the community)!

A photograph of the school hall at Middleton Park Primary - Pauline stands on the right of the photo dressed as a fairy in green robes and with blue fairy wings. She is facing lots of children and their grown ups who are listening to the story