there have been last minute keys and castles and ghosts, a school skull and a general sense that Glossop is a town of marvels....link in this blog to the full set of wonderful stories that have grown out of the Derbyshire Makes workshops with High Peak Community Arts, #stories, #storytelling, #storymaking, https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2025/04/lightbulb-trees.html

There might be mermaids and monsters, mice and marvellous creatures and maybe some fabulous people. Join us to make a world of Tiny! wonders, @buxton Festival Fringe, @Pavilion Gardens Buxton, #summeractivities, #familyevents, https://www.facebook.com/events/1015265176849237?ref=newsfeed

the cats are polishing their teeth and sharpening their claws, but the sabre-toothed mice are gathering...final events in our Lost Cats project. @BuxtonOurStreet,@BCA1967, #lostcats, #animalart, https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2023/03/big-cats-and-prehistoric-mice.html

Words on the Street: celebrating Buxton's Spring Gardens with old photos and modern tales. Add your own story or poem. Unfold the Gardens with 100 years of phots. Public event 19/02/2023. Details in link. @BuxtonOurStreet, https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2023/02/words-on-street.html

dipping a toe in some Georgian baths, we have some more stories and poems inspired by the history, wildlife and contemporary life along Spring Gardens in Buxton, @buxtonourstreet. #urbanpoetry, #urbanwildlife

https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2023/02/ruffled-feathers.html

Draw your own big cat with this easy guide to feline figures! @Buxtonourstreet , @BuxtonMuseum. Creeping Toad: Take a pencil and purr, #drawing, #homotherium, #cavelion, #lostcats https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2023/01/take-pencil-and-purr.html?spref=tw ,

what words might tell, the tale of a town? What rhymes might wreck reputations or wake a tourist's frown? Our Word on the Street project is generating a number of blogs and this one introduces the project and summarises the others. https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2023/01/words-on-town-streets.html

Sabre-tooths and scimitars, lions in caves, kittens on heart-rugs: celebrating the past, present and maybe future felines of Derbyshire! Events for the family, art workshops, school sessions and general purring excitement! https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2022/12/all-teeth-and-claws.html

Had a lovely day yesterday at Buxton Country Park making witner woodland decoratiosn with visitors - sending a small piece of woodland home: both memory and a dream

a delightful production of Wyrd Sisters is running at Buxton Opera House's studio theatre just now... https://buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/event/wyrd-sisters#dates-and-times