adventuresofalgy:
Uh-Oh! More stormy weather ahead…
Algy hopes that your weekend won’t be as stormy as his is forecast to be 🙂
Have a lovely weekend, everyone xoxo
Blog recommendation of the week – interview
1. Tell us something about yourself for a start:
For a start, I’m a unique fluffy bird
There is no other fluffy bird quite like me anywhere in the real or
virtual world, so far as I know. I live on the wild west coast of the
Scottish Highlands, where I was cast ashore after a long ocean voyage on
a raft, and I have many adventures.
2. Tell us something about your wonderful assistant Jenny and how you met?
One
day, when I was perching on a rock in the sea, close to my cliff-side
nest, two human creatures came walking along. They perched on another
rock nearby, and I noticed that the female human was taking lots and
lots – and lots! – of photographs. When I was sure that they were
harmless, I flew over to talk to them, and that is how I met Jenny and
her husband.
Jenny told me that she was a multimedia artist and a
writer, and she had always loved fluffy birds and animals. I learned
that she had spent years studying animation and illustration at art
school, and she had also been taking photographs since she was first
given a Kodak Instamatic as a little girl. When I heard that the very
first photos she ever took (as a chlld) were of a fluffy white baby
goat, and a beautiful white peacock, I knew at once that she was the
right person to photograph me and my adventures. The rest is history
Since
that day, Jenny and I have had many exciting adventures together in the
rugged landscape of the West Highlands of Scotland. She started posting
photos and GIFs of my adventures on Tumblr in March 2012, and in 2015
she began to produce illustrated stories from my adventures in
children’s books too.
3. You’re a really brave (and fluffy) bird, what was your biggest adventure so far?
In
some ways my bravest and fluffiest adventure is the one that is being
recorded in my second book “The Tree with a Golden Heart”, due to be
published soon. This new adventure needed more courage than the others,
and was undertaken to help a sick friend. In other ways my biggest
adventure was one that happened by accident – my dangerous journey
around the world on a raft, and arrival in the Scottish Highlands,
washed up half-drowned on the beach. That adventure is important to me,
because it reminds me of all the little refugee children who are making
dangerous journeys to new lands by sea, and I hope very much that they
don’t get washed up on the beach too, but arrive safely in new homes and
make new friends.
4. You’re writing your second book, what is the biggest challenge about this?
The
biggest challenge about this is sifting through all those million or so
words in the English language, to choose only the ones that will fit
together nicely, and then putting those ones in the right order and the
right place to tell the story. I have heard that many people want to be
writers, but watching my assistant struggle day after day with that
enormous tangle of words, I often wonder why!
5. And now a personal question, but I think many people want to know that too: How can Algy always be so fluffy?
This
is a question which many people ask, and I don’t really know the
answer. But the West Highlands of Scotland is an exceedingly wet
environment, where it rains most days of the year, and it is also a
very, very windy place. So I guess it may be the result of frequent
washing with soft rainwater and blow-drying!
Thank you so much
for featuring my adventures on PWS. This is so exciting, and I can’t
tell you how much I appreciate it! I’m sending you, your PWS colleagues,
and all the wonderful people on Tumblr who follow my adventures, lots
and lots of surprisingly fluffy hugs.
Thank you, Algy for the great interview
PWS – Stephi
The Adventures of Algy 