It’s a busy week for nature stories and nature places!
This Friday I’m going to be telling stories at Forvie National Nature Reserve ‘s yearly summer Fun Day!
Stories! Crafts! Fine pieces! And hopefully the opening of the moth boxes (our favourite!)
Come join us from 12 noon 
Nae lang noo!
Wild About Aden returns on Thursday with hunners o free activities for abdy! Storytelling in the Aberdeenshire Farming Museum being one of them!
Come hear tales from North East farms and wild places! 11am to 1pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
If you’re driving to Aden Country Park, there will be plenty of parking – bring £5 cash which will allow you to park for the whole day!
I’m not bragging or anything… but I’ve had the most wonderful day!
It’s truly spring in the NE and today i had two wonderful storytelling sessions which were full of fun and joy!
First I was at the Broomhill Primary School Spring Fair where Fizzy and I told some of our favourite folk tales from around the world… to an amazing audience of bairns and their grown ups!
Then it was off to a private party at the GORGEOUS Ballogie House
Oh wow I was seriously in awe at the Fantasy, Mythical and absolutely Legendary costumes! 🥰
Fairies! Faun! Atlas, Medusa, Icarus , a rogue Anubis, Green Men, Green Women, Green Bairns, Mushroom Fowk and all round wonderful people!
(I seriously need to up my headdressing 😂🥰)
Thanks so much to both events for having me (and Fizzy the Fairy) along to tell our tales! 🤩😘😍🥰
A wee photo fae last wik’s Bring A Puppet To Life workshop at Whitehills Playing Field !
The bairns (and their grown ups!) worked with the puppets learning to make them talk, move and most importantly… come to life!
We then had some stories and songs before a Scots Variety Concert in the village hall in the evening.
Thanks to the organisers for having us along!
A wee photo from Friday this time!
Here’s mi – posing in the super library at Banchory Academy Library
I was in for a full day telling three sets of my favourite stories – some spooky, some with a twist at the end, some that needed solving – to the S2 pupils.
Each group were a fantastic audience and kept me highly amused! Particularly chuffed with the enthusiastic pupils who told me about ghosties their great granny saw, about folkloric characters to look up for more tales and to those who sat on the edge of their seats. It was a real pleasure to visit!
I made a pal this morning at Stonehaven Library!
I was there telling stories to a wonderful crowd of bairns and their grownups for #bookweekscotland #aberdeenshirelibraries
The bairns were fantastic listeners and great at joining in and we (and my puddock pal) had great fun!
Thanks for having us along Aberdeenshire Libraries!!
As the snow falls on the North East of Scotland, here’s some photos from last night’s storytelling at Drumtochty Castle near Auchenblae.
The occasion was the night before a grand wedding – and I’d like to wish the happy couple the most wonderful day today! The snow is lying on the ground and many of the wedding guests are from considerably warmer climes!
I hope you all enjoyed last night’s stories and thanks for having me along to share some local folklore and tales!
(Pic 1 with a bonny boar – telling Tad Losgann got bumped when white stags were mentioned and I spotted a foliate head in the decor, Pic 2 outside the castle, Pic 3 – I had a good look at the decor and paintings to see how much tied in with the stories I’d prepared! Pic 4 – it was like arriving at Hogwarts! Pic 5 – I so seldom get to wear this outfit!)
A grand visit yesterday tae Durnhythe Care Home in Portsoy – anither ABC visit fae @doricbooks !
Wid ye believe Fizzy demanded an ice cream aifter or she widnae come oot tae spik tae abdy!?
Here’s Strawberry Moose enjoying a day trip on Wednesday – My two Promise Groups were enthusiastic, creative and joyous puppeteers!
Both groups started off with a story (the classic Stone Soup) and then had a lesson on how to effectively bring hand puppets to life. It really is SO tricky, when first picking up a puppet, to make it open its mouth for each syllable. We had a lot of fun with that.
Then both groups started creating their stories with me. They’re going to be very different from eachother and displayed in a different way – one will be a film and the other will be a storyboard (maybe with animated drawings!) watch this space!
@we_care_aberdeenshire #PromiseGroups #KeepThePromise
I had my first of two Big Scottish Story Ripple visits to Aye Aye Club on Monday night! We created a story – and when I say I LOVE creating stories with the Aye Aye folks – you have to know it’s because there’s going to some amazing ideas AND cabbages AND uranium !!
Because I’m a bit rubbish and get carried away and forget to take photos, here’s me asking AI to draw me our main character. (Charlie).
Next visit we’ll be making shadow puppets of the characters and the scenery! #sisfstoryripple2025
Pauline Cordiner - Scottish Storyteller 