Category: Blog
You’ve already thought it, I’m sure – my last name is a bit unusual. The more people I meet, the more I become aware of this, as I often find my surname misspelled or mispronounced. At least it’s unique.
Anyway, when you have a slightly strange or uncommon name, you notice it when you see it elsewhere, and from a young age I saw my weird Germanic surname in a prominent place – Disney cartoons.
Every now and again I get a request for something a bit different. Last winter one of those requests landed in my inbox, and I thought I’d give it a try.
A local Primary School was planning a treasure hunt all over my home town as a fundraiser, which they would hold over a couple of weeks during the summer. The plan was to get the kids to decorate a wooden deer head for each class to hide around the town. People could then pay £2 for a map to follow and collect clues, with one lucky family winning a prize.
The school also wanted to get some local artists involved to decorate their own wooden deer heads, and I was one of the names that came up.
At the time I was last renovating my website, Jeremy Clarkson was in trouble for bopping his producer in a “fracas” about food. Specifically, the lack of hot food after a day’s filming somewhere in Yorkshire. Now, Clarkson has one of those faces that lend themselves very well to caricature, so I thought I’d give it a go.