Edward Picot’s blog (incorporating Dr Hairy)

I’ve just started transferring some of my Flash work from about 15-20 years ago onto video, as Flash won’t be supported by any of the internet browsers from the end of this year. ‘Penguin Memories’ is the dramatic and tragic tale of a penguin who steals a sardine sandwich from the penguin queen.

“Martha took her puppy home. The goose money box was gone. ‘That’s not fair!’ she said, and felt very sad. But then, when she looked at the puppy, she realized she hadn’t done so badly after all.” This is the last picture from ‘The Goose Money Box’. This and my other picture books, plus various greetings cards, will be available this Saturday from The Pop Up Emporium – live Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/382924476003730/

Martha takes her golden egg to the pet shop “‘A golden egg?’ said the man in the pet shop. ‘For that puppy? A golden egg for that puppy? Five hundred quid, that puppy’s worth! Haven’t you got any real money? I don’t swop puppies for eggs! What kind of gold is it? Is it proper goose gold? A real golden egg, from a proper magical goose? Oh, all right. It’s a deal.'”

From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

When Martha wakes up in the morning, her goose has laid a golden egg. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

https://www.drhairy.org/index.php/dr-hairys-research-podcasts

Dr David Hindmarsh and Julian Le Saux discuss articles from The Guardian, Digital Health and the BMJ. To sign the People’s Vaccine petition, go to https://actions.oxfam.org/international/covid-19-vaccine/petition/.

• ‘The world needs a ‘people’s vaccine’ for coronavirus, not a big-pharma monopoly’, The Guardian, 23rd July 2020 (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/23/world-needs-coronavirus-vaccine-big-pharma-monopoly-astrazeneca-patent-pandemic)
• ‘Code for Ireland’s Covid Tracker app given to global public health project’, Digital Health, 23rd July 2020 (https://www.digitalhealth.net/2020/07/code-for-irelands-covid-tracker-app-given-to-global-public-health-project/)
• ‘Covid-19: Timing is critical for antibody tests, finds Cochrane review’, BMJ, m2420
• ‘Has Sweden’s controverial covid-19 strategy been successful?’, BMJ, m2376
• ‘Presentingclinicalfeaturesondarkerskin:fiveminuteswith. . . MaloneMukwende’, BMJ, m2578
• ‘The healthiness and sustainability of food based dietary guidelines’, BMJ, m2417
• ‘Food Planet Health: Summary report of the EAT-Lancet Commission’ (https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/eat-lancet-commission-summary-report/)

There was an item on the news a couple of days ago to the effect that Russia was trying to steal the secrets of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine. ‘Why is that an issue?’ I thought. ‘Shouldn’t they be sharing that research anyway?’

Then I came across an article in the Guardian – which many of you have probably already seen – saying exactly that: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/23/world-needs-coronavirus-vaccine-big-pharma-monopoly-astrazeneca-patent-pandemic

I went looking to see if there was a petition I could sign, and I found one on the Oxfam website. Here’s what they say: “Nearly everyone on the planet will need the COVID-19 vaccine to stay safe from the virus. Pls sign this petition to demand a commitment is made to make it free for everyone. #PeoplesVaccine https://actions.oxfam.org/international/covid-19-vaccine/petition/“

Please sign it, and encourage other people to sign it, if you’ve got the time!

Martha puts the last of the money into the goose money box. Nothing happens, except that that evening, while she’s lying in bed, all the geese from the lake fly up and down outside her window, honking derisively. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

A short review of The Goose Money Box has just been published by The Children’s Bookshelf – https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrk4qyHj9m/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

When Martha shouts for him, up comes the goblin – rather grumpy, because she’s interrupted him in the middle of his tea. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.

Martha goes to the goblin’s hollow tree-stump and shouts for him: ‘Goblin! Goblin! Come up at once!’. From ‘The Goose Money Box’, my new picture book – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0863R77BN.