I’m delighted to welcome my Auntie Lynn to the WWW today. For a very long time now I’ve been suggesting that Lynn and the World Wide Web would be a very good match. Lynn is (primarily) an illustrator and author of childrens’ books, though she has done all kinds of other stuff including greetings cards and even Jackanory (something that I thought was very cool when I was a kid). Lynn’s new website, which has been mostly set up by my cousin Jo, is hopefully the start of a long and worthwhile venture.

The nice thing about having an Auntie that’s an illustrator is that occasionally little gems pop out that capture something special. For example, it was not uncommon when I was a nipper, for me to be a little over-demanding on my vehicles, and therefore over-demanding on my grandfather’s time. Many hours were spent in his workshop, as he fixed whichever bike or skateboard I’d managed to buckle.

Naturally, I would leave the workshop, resume my previous activity and instantly manage to destroy said vehicle again, but in a more complete way than before. This would result in more interesting things happening in the workshop, and occasionally they involved the large drill, or the grindstone or the bandsaw, which pleased me greatly.

With all this work going on it was easy to get distracted, so we may occasionally have arrived at the dinner table a little late. In situations such as this my grandather would conspiratorially turn to me and, giggling, tell me that we were in the doghouse again.

Lynn’s website can be found at www.lynnbreeze.com.