That's what Ray Harryhausen said when I finally managed to get him to sign my book yesterday. We went back to the NFT for a workshop where we got to meet him, see a real model skeleton and dinosaur from his movies, hear how he made them move, and then the kids got to make their own skeletons from pipe cleaners and make a little animated movie of their own. It was great fun, especially for the older audience who seemed more impressed and excited to meet him than the kids were.

After he got over the shock of 'Apoa' I hit him with 'and Kiloh'. Just when he thought it was over, along came Oisin with his 'don't forget the foda' Irish name just to put the icing on the cake. I liked his reaction to Apoa's name. It reminded me of the times when people used to ask us the perfectly balanced question, 'Apoa, what kind of name is that?' Kiloh's womb-name was Spenglu which also got some interesting reactions.

B-)