Seer Green is a lovely little Buckinghamshire village not too far from me. It's known as the 'Cherry Pie Village' because, until the early part of the 20th century, it was a mainly an agricultural community known for its extensive cherry orchards. The remnants of some of these orchards remain and, in honour of this tradition, the local school holds a 'Cherry Pie Fair' every summer which usually involves a fancy dress parade and a procession through the village.
It's quite an affluent place and among the former and current residents you'll find names like Val Doonican, Jon Anderson (of prog band Yes), weatherman Iain McCaskill and author Frederick Forsyth. In fact, I did a 'Writers for Ukraine' event with Frederick just last year.
However, yesterday was all about the beer ... although, not so much for me.
I was asked if I would run a monster art workshop for local kids. So that's what I did. I got them to invent their own beasties and then helped them by demonstrating how to draw various features like eyes on stalks, tentacle arms and be-fanged mouths. It was great fun and they created some fantastic monsters.
Here are a few of them (plus a little monster dressed up as a monster): 
A great fun day out (for all involved).
A great fun day out (for all involved).Watch for a video about the event on this blog in the next few days.
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