Grandad's Island

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There are definitely some characters in the first book that were based on people living on the island at the time. There are also some family members who have provided inspiration too. Granma Mainland is based on my own mother a little bit. My mother was urban based and I remember when she would come to visit us on the island, and she would get off the boat wearing her good court shoes. Grannie Island is the Grannie I always wanted to be. Filming is brilliant! I really like my own bedroom in the studio. It's not real though. I get to run up the stairs and flash my torch to Grannie Island. Her house is a different set in the studio.

The Telegraph Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor – obituary - The Telegraph

Some people may find it disheartening to see the orangutans in captivity. Even if they are kept in a free-range area like the Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island and well cared for.

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To read the artist’s picture is to mobilise our memories and our experience of the visible world and to test his image through tentative projections…It is not the ‘innocent eye’, however, that can achieve this match but only the inquiring mind that knows how to probe the ambiguities of vision.” (Gombrich, 1962: 264 cited in Arizpe and Styles, 2003, 2015) In 1997 in Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, he gave a memorable performance as Hamish’s confidant “TV John” McIver’s sinister one-eyed, one-legged, one-armed ex-jailbird brother Kenny, who conspires to steal the Stone of Destiny. I never got a chance to say goodbye to my Grandads. I like to think that both of them are somewhere on an island faraway, where the waterfalls cascade and a large chimpanzee serves them tea, or maybe even a ‘Footballer’s Dinner’. Perhaps I’ll see them again one day.

Grandad’s Island by Benji Davies (Simon and Schuster) - CLPE Grandad’s Island by Benji Davies (Simon and Schuster) - CLPE

Orangutan Island Visitor And Rehabilitation Center From Another Perspective – Photo by Travelswithsun When I returned, under the expert guidance of my Mum and an LSA, my Year 2 class had begun to compose their letters from Grandad to Syd, writing things like:

In 1971 Scanlan moved to London where he trained at the Drama Centre, Chalk Farm, and won the school’s Gold Medal.

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I asked my children if they thought Grandad would return and almost all of them thought that no, he was happy on his island and the big, metal door in the attic had vanished anyway. Syd hugged Grandad one last time. He would miss him very much. I was reading to the class and had reached the part of the story where Grandad tells Syd that he is thinking of staying on the island. Up until this point, I have to admit that my reading of the book had been rather superficial, reminding me even now that revisiting a story, re-reading it and allowing ourselves time to slowly pore over the illustrations is vital and time well spend. I thought I wouldn’t be involved to be honest and as a writer you have to know when to let go of your characters to another medium. But as it turned out, the production company Move on Up have been so inclusive and invited me up to see the sets on the Isle of Lewis. I’m very happy with all the casting, especially Cherry, she is totally natural; she’s even got Katie Morag’s fleeting facial expressions which you can’t dictate to a child actor. The biggest difference is that there are more episodes than there were stories. The scriptwriters have taken the characters, the locations and the relationships and created six brand new stories and six special episodes. They have come up with new original ideas while still being very faithful to the original stories. I have written one script myself which was a very different process because I had no illustrations to rely on. Expelled from St Aloysius’s College, Glasgow, for minor infringements of the uniform code, he auditioned for a play called Dodd’s Dilemma at Glasgow’s New Victory Players Dramatic Club, winning a major role.

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Sean Scanlan,who has died aged 68, was a busy Scottish actor who became familiar to British television viewers in such series as The Tales of Para Handy (BBC One, 1994-95), as Dougie Cameron, first mate of the Clyde steamboat Vital Spark, and as Gordon MacPhee, the ferryman in Two Thousand Acres of Sky (BBC One, 2001-3). Scanlan met the actress Barbara Rafferty in 1984 on the set of Playing for Real, a dire BBC comedy-drama about Subbuteo. She was married to someone else, but they remained friends and worked together in several stage and television productions. In Rab C Nesbitt she was Mary’s acid-tongued best friend Ella Cotta (wife of Jamesie, played by Tony Roper). This group of lessons has probably been one of the highlights of my teaching career so far. Firstly, I think this is because it was my first successful attempt at carrying out whole class reading over a sustained amount of time (about six weeks). We use VIPERS, created by The Literacy Shed, to help develop our sessions and I felt that I had implemented this structure effectively. Secondly, the children really enjoyed the story, which created a shared excitement and buzz within the classroom.