Word of Mouth... Tiny T's Storytelling and Theatre

At Honey Hill Tearooms, based a fifteen minute drive from Welwyn Garden City on Tewin Hill Farm, customers can tuck into cooked breakfasts, homemade cake, coffee, and Afternoon Tea surrounded by theatrical décor- play and musical billboard posters, stage spotlight-like light fixtures, and wide countryside.

Perhaps its most unique treat, though, is itself tucked away. Through a secret doorway, you might find yourself in an Enchanted Treehouse, home to Tiny T's Theatre and Storytelling- an immersive world of fairies and imagination. You might find them hosting story-times, shows, and workshops there- or out in the world at festivals and parties.

Shout or Whisper spoke with founder (and Fairy) Tara Harris to discover the world behind the magic.

Fairy Tara in her Enchanted Treehouse. Credit: Emily Packman Photography

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So. Let’s start with- what is Tiny T’s Storytelling and Theatre, and how did it get started?

It was a bit of an accident really. I went to theatre school, trained professionally and stuff and then just didn’t really know what I wanted to do. I just knew that I loved working with kids and spending time around kids- and I just basically felt like a child myself, and I’ve always had a massive imagination, so then I just started to sort of think about what it was that I could do where I could sort of be my own boss, really. That’s what it came down to, because I found it too… stressful having to audition all the time and just have… not have any real job of any real purpose. And then just like, y’know, basically just having a temporary job all the time… I started to think about it. But it didn’t really start properly until… lockdown, to be honest.

Because I was doing a few things before. When I first started it, I just thought “oh I’ll start this little thing up where I do storytelling for kids, you know, at random events and stuff, or maybe I’ll do a few parties or do drama workshops or something”. I didn’t think it would end up being like this- and basically I was doing a few drama-y workshops and things and then lockdown. Just before lockdown I was doing this show, on tour, and then because we obviously then had to come home and stop the tour I thought “well what I’ll do, as I’ve alright got this Facebook page set up for this business that I haven’t really started, I’ll just tell a story on Facebook, like for free, for all the kids”- you know just like willy-nilly.

within a few hours I had like 30,000 people that had seen it and said they were going to watch it, and I was like “what is going on? WHAT is going on? I’m literally just little old me"

And we were doing Zog, so it’s quite a popular children’s book, so, I put that out on there and everyone just loved it. It was just me literally sitting in my bedroom telling this story and I’d put some things around the back, a backdrop, and then I found- because obviously, again, we were locked at home- I just found loads of bits in the kitchen and used it to tell the story like random props. Then after that people then said “oh we really enjoyed that would you do another one?” so I was like “okay, I’ll do another one”.

And then I thought “I’ll do The Gruffalo, everyone knows The Gruffalo, I know it off by heart so I could just do it, I’ve got all the little puppets and stuff”, and… I always think, I still think it’s mad when I think about it now but I put this on like- it was when people used to put Facebook Events on, it was like a thing, “back in lockdown”- which is weird because it was only five years ago.

And so I put on this Facebook Event- “oh, I’m going to do a live telling, 10am or whatever it was, of The Gruffalo”. Literally within a few hours I had like 30,000 people that had seen it and said they were going to watch it, and I was like “what is going on? WHAT is going on? I’m literally just little old me in my bedroom, like, telling a story”.  So I told the story and I just had, like, thousands of people watching, it was mad. All over the world, all over the country. And I think people just kept sharing it and sharing it because it was like the very beginning of lockdown, so parents didn’t really have much to do- they were just, we were all just like “what is going on?”, right? So I think I must have just been one of the first people to go “oh, I’ll just do something.”

That then snowballed into every single day of lockdown for… four months or something, four, five months I then basically went online for free, told a story- but it, it ended up being a whole thing so it’d be like an hour I’d be on there, I’d do like a shout out thing as if I was on CBBC I’d be like “Aaah! Charlie from…. Winchester’s here, hi Charlie!”. And then “Oh, it’s so-and-so’s birthday today! Happy birthday!” It was so funny.

Then I would basically give them a list of props that they could find around the house and join in with me, as a really fun interactive thing- and then I was being sent all these pictures of all these kids with like a saucepan and a wooden spoon and a hat, their dad’s shoes… like all this random stuff. And it was so nice to see that, and I think I just instantly knew I’d found my, what my purpose is, and it is just to encourage that family connection and bringing back the authenticity of storytelling and what live theatre is.

And in a way, okay I’m not performing in a West End show but what we are dong is bringing everybody together in this moment and we don’t need any screens or anything like that.

being creative can basically get you through anything, that’s like the moral of the story

And then it just kind of went from there. I’d already… when I was a kid, I used to love fairies, and being in the garden, and all of that kind of thing. I’d go off for hours and play by myself so I think I’d always had this imagination and I’d always wanted to do something with fairies but I just didn’t know… what it was going to be.

Before, when I was doing Zog on tour I remember sitting in the dressing room when I was sketching out these fairy characters and I was like “ah, I’d like to do something with this one day, I don’t know what I’d do”, and then obviously, then this was the perfect opportunity.

Then in lockdown, I kind of asked the parents whether they… what their kids were into and they were into the fairy things, so one day I’d be Fairy Tara and the next I’d just be normal in my dungarees telling them the story… It ended up just basically becoming that I was this fairy then, that had this whole storyline, and I created all these different characters. It’s just sort of grown from there. And the Fairies now are the biggest part of the business and that’s how- that’s what we run it on, basically.

The doorway to magic.

But what I will say is, before all of this I’ve just remembered I wrote this little show which we performed in the Edinburgh Fringe, so that… yeah so that was in 2019 we did that, the summer of that… It’s weird, because so much has happened since, I always forget that that happened first.

Basically, it was a half an hour little show, we performed it at the Fringe, we hardly had anyone come and we just had the best time. We didn’t care that no one came, it was like we had two kids in the audience but it was so nice to just do that and be free.

And then in lockdown, again as I was doing these stories and I was building an audience and building a whole list of people, I decided to turn the show into a book. And then I… I’ve got an illustrator [Jay Stelling] who I work with who also illustrates all the fairies and characters. It’s all about magic glasses. So nothing to do with fairies really, but you can kind of see what the artwork’s like. It was to do with the fact that being creative can basically get you through anything, that’s like the moral of the story.

“Believe in yourself, and what you can do, pick up your paintbrushes, and make your dreams come true”.

I got commissioned after that- so when all of this was going on in lockdown, when we came out of lockdown in 2021 I then got commissioned to take it to Covent Garden to the Actor’s Church which was really cool. It was like a competition, you had to obviously apply for it, and I just couldn’t believe, I couldn’t believe it that they said “yeah, we want to choose you for the kid’s element of it”. So we got to do that there.

And then, I don’t know if you remember but Hitchin restored the amphitheatre, the open air theatre, that was in 2021 I think- so then we performed it there as well, and that was just amazing, because it was just like being outside.

[Tara fetches an original illustration from the book- Spectacular] This is one of the pictures, so that’s like one of the messages- “Believe in yourself, and what you can do, pick up your paintbrushes, and make your dreams come true”. The mum in the story she discovers that she had a love for art and her kids help her, and all the toys and puppets in this art shop come to life with the magic glasses. It’s really good fun.

Then, eventually from there- sorry it’s such a long story!- then the Fairies have become more and more popular. And I realised that actually, that’s what I really loved. I’ve been able to create this whole world of characters that the kids now believe are all genuinely real characters and they come in here and they feel like they’ve come to Fairy Tara’s treehouse, which is amazing.

So there’s… I had a quick look on your site- you’ve got other Fairies, some Gnomes? Is that right?

Yeah… Elves, and Gnomes, although I haven’t found people to act, like, be the characters at the moment. But it’s kind of nice because some of the characters the kids know they’ll never really meet, because they’re kind of like secret. We’ve got a map, as well, of the whole land, which is really cool.

A woodland corner in the Enchanted Treehouse.

I just wanted to create, like… because I feel so passionate about the kids really still believing in the magic and all this kind of stuff as long as possible, like we would have done, I think I realised quite quickly that you can’t just make up a character and then, like, what’s the word? Go against what you’re saying. You have to follow through with what you’re actually saying to them because they really believe that it’s real. So, then I had to then obviously then think about each character’s background, where they live, who they’re friends with, when their birthday is- all this whole thing. And it’s now such a big story that they fully know. Like even in here [at the treehouse venue], they’ve got all their houses dotted around. When they come for a party, we then have to find all their houses in the trees, it’s this whole world that we’ve created. But it’s amazing, because on the back of that you can then do so much with it.

So… in answer to your question, it’s a very long answer- what we do at Tiny T’s is basically… I still write shows, and produce shows, but they’re always small intimate things where you maybe have forty children in the audience, and they feel like they can really get to know whoever’s telling the story and their character and get immersed in it. But we also run classes, and workshops, and we go to festivals in the summer and are characters at the festivals and things like that, so it’s a whole range of stuff. And then obviously children’s parties is a thing that we do too.

so many children by the age of twelve or something have never received a letter with their own name on it in the post. And actually that can make you feel so important as a person

Did I see that you’ve started doing like a sort of pen pal service as well? So that’s another way that you can kind of be immersed in it, get a letter from somebody?

Yeah. The woman who used to run the business My Fairy Pen Pal she basically approached me, last year, and said she wanted to sell it and I was the only person she could think of that would be perfect for it. Because again, in lockdown, it started where I thought “well the children need something to give them a bit of like hope and excitement, and nice vibes”, especially when it was their birthday and they couldn’t celebrate it with their friends. So I thought well I’ll send them something in the post, or I’ll send them, I was sending them a video message of me as Fairy Tara but then they’d get a letter as well. And it kind of started from there. So now every birthday party we do, I send them a personalised letter that they get to say “I can’t wait to see you for your birthday”, and then it will have certain personalised bits in it which the parents will let me know.

From that as well we do the whole subscription service. There’s a fact that- I don’t know the exact statistics, but so many children by the age of twelve or something have never received a letter with their own name on it in the post. And actually that can make you feel so important as a person. It seems so minor, but as a child if you get something in the post with your name on it you feel so special. [Tara gasps excitedly] “it’s all for me! It’s all about me in this moment”. And they absolutely love it. If you have a look over there [Tara points to a wall papered in dozens of children’s pictures and letters] all that art- most of those pictures on that wall there and then there’s some round the side, I get sent stuff or kids bring me things.

There’s this one girl that I write to in Durham, she lives up north, I’ve only met her twice, but she does come and make a trip of it. But she is home-schooled and her mum is constantly sending me messages and then I write her two letters a month. And she sends me stuff back. So I end up with all these colouring sheets, and gifts, and all these really nice cute little things and I just put them on the wall, from all the other kids as well, they send stuff. It’s really nice, you can see that they really believe it and, yeah, it’s really special. I do actually feel like they’re my friends, in a way.

That’s a nice, nice thing to set up.

It keeps me busy!

So on that… What sort of team do you have? Is it just you, or have you got other people that work with you? You mentioned an illustrator earlier…

Yeah… so everyone I’ve ever used has always been freelance. I would love to have a full-time team, it would be amazing, hopefully in the future at some point. It’s just me. I don’t know how I do it sometimes!

The magic must be real?!

Yeah, it’s a lot, it’s a lot of back and forth. My brain works in lots of different ways, thinking of five things at once. Especially now, having a venue as well. It’s a lot more to think about. Yeah, it’s just me but then what happens is if we get a job where they say they want two, three characters, whatever, then what’s nice is we’ve got a WhatsApp group and we’ve got basically all the people that I would obviously want to use, I see who’s available and we get booked.

So what I also love about it is that I’m able to give my friends who are performers work, constantly. And I just think that’s… That’s really important to me, as well. You know, as a performer if you don’t want to just go and get a job in a call centre or a café, most of the time I can give people enough work to keep them going. At least, even, for the whole summer. It’s nice. That makes me feel proud to be able to do that. And it’s well-paid stuff, y’know, it’s nice, it feels like a good thing to be able to do for people.

And I knew instantly when I came up here, this could be like a treehouse. This would be so cool.

I had quite a few questions you’ve already hit on the head, let me see if there’s anything we haven’t covered… Oh, let’s touch on the new space! So, you were in Knebworth before, how did that work before- was it a dedicated space like this?

It was a cake shop before, and I knew a few people at the businesses around it. It was a very last-minute thing. I’d wanted a space since I started, since I thought about starting this whole thing I always wanted something immersive. I’ve always loved immersive theatre- that’s like my hobby as well, I’ll go and watch immersive theatre and stuff- but I never… it’s having money behind you to actually be able to create something. Especially in a pop-up level.

A lot of the time I was doing stuff where I would go into like a woods, and set up a whole pop-up thing and it would take me two hours to set up, we’d do an hour workshop, and then we’d have to pack it all back down and put it in the car. And it was just, like, it got to a point where it was exhausting. I then thought “no, I need a space now, the next level is to do that”. This shop came up, it was all very last minute, and it was a tiny, tiny little cake shop. It was three rooms like that [Tara indicates three rooms laid linearly, front to back] but it was the size of this room [the entirety of the new attic treehouse space]. And I knew straight away, this is going to be too small, but I’m just going to move in. It was cheap rent, and it was a private landlord, and I thought “you know what, I’m just going to try and see, even, if people like it- because I might not get anywhere with this but I’ll never know if I don’t just go for it”.

Moved in there last… Hm. Last September… no, the one before, 2023, and it was very different to this [the new treehouse space]. It was like a Fairy’s Cottage. It was a very rundown shop so in a way it was quite good because we could do whatever we wanted to it. So it was lots of pallet wood on the walls and all sorts of higgledy-piggedly things. We had a secret fairy door, which was made out of pallet wood and then it linked into the wall so the kids never really knew where the door was which was really cool. All sorts of little things like that.

But I very quickly realised that it was just too small. I could only fit about eight kids in there at a time, and it was never going to work as a business. It’s never going to go anywhere, I could never make actual money from it, and I could never have anybody help me. I was trapped, really, and it just got to a point really where I just knew after probably about four months, it was like, “I need to find somewhere else.”.

I then started working with Ben from Woodland Ranch, which is up there [Tara points further into the farm], and I’d messaged him on Instagram quite a few times, got no reply, and I thought “Oh this guy, he’s… he’s not interested!”.

Cos I’d said “I would love to work with you on the farm, I think being on the farm would be really magical, and I think it’s perfect for us especially as it’s Welwyn”- we’d done some stuff with Tewinbury Farm as well before, so it just felt- Welwyn felt like a good place to be. I’ve grown up in Welwyn, as well. Didn’t get any reply. And then all of a sudden he replied and was like “actually yeah, I think we are going to make the farm a bit more of a bigger thing now”.

Credit: Emily Packman Photography

So all of last year we were on the farm, doing storytelling there. And I was nagging him and nagging him and nagging him like “Ben! Is there anywhere?” I said “I’ll move into a shed. I don’t care. Like, a horse stable. Anything! I just want to be on this farm. I just know.” You know when you get a gut feeling? I was like “I know this is the right place. And I know that this will really work.”

And… bit of a weird one. Bit of a spooky one. But my… My mum and dad aren’t together, but years ago my dad, when this was a tea room- the old tea room- my dad did some cornice work in here, he’s a plasterer. And so he knew the previous owners, so it’s like weirdly linked.

Me and my mum were in the car together last summer just as I was finishing up on the farm for the summer and it was closing. And she was like “Oh wouldn’t it be amazing if that building came up?” And we were like “Oh my god, you’re like a witch, Mum!” Cos I thought “No, that building would never come up!” because the people that were in here before us, they were in here for like twelve years, you know, they were quite well established. And we were like “Nah, it’s never going to happen, never going to happen.”

Anyway, I closed my shop in Knebworth on the Sunday, I think it was the second of September… The Monday morning, 9am, I get a message from Ben and it says “Can you call me?”

And I was honestly, like, ready to go travelling. I’m done. I’ve been so stressed with this other place. Had no money left. I had just… “I don’t think this is ever going to happen for me, I think I need to take a break…” I’m just going to go off.

Then the next morning I was like “Oh my god, have I done something wrong? Have I left something at the farm?” Thinking what’s he going to say? And he said a unit’s come up. Oh my god.

He showed me up here, and he said they’re going to be leaving downstairs. This was just a storage space. And you can take the unit upstairs but we want to keep it downstairs as a tearoom because all the people that have horses on the yard and all the rest of it, they want to be able to have somewhere to have coffee and blah blah blah, and I thought “I dunno… this just feels right.” This felt like it had to be the right thing.

And I knew instantly when I came up here, this could be like a treehouse. This would be so cool. Bearing in mind all the walls were jet black. It was totally different. Totally different.

I always think anyway, if you love something enough, and you can’t stop thinking about it, you should just do it. Because, if you love it, it’s naturally going to work, of course it’s going to work

Just looking around, it’s such a light space now. It’s lovely.

The first thing we did was choose the colour palette. It needs to be woodland-y, and bright, but not bright white. So we went for a mushroom-y colour. Instantly, as soon as we soaked those walls down, got the black off and put the beige on, it just changed so much.

So this space come about. My mum now runs the tearoom downstairs. We’re like best friends anyway. It’s very rare I think for people to be able to work with their mum, but we just work really well together and we just have like a really nice relationship. Mum was like “do you know what, I’m miserable in my jobs, I’m going to quit my jobs and I’m going to run the tearoom.” She’s never done hospitality in her life, and… she said “I’m going to do it!” and I was like “okay, if you’re sure…”

Because there’s no way it would have worked, me being up here and then some random coffee shop downstairs. It just wouldn’t- they wouldn’t have understood what was going on. A load of little fairies walking around. So that was that, and then we moved in in January. And the rest is history.

I’ve been busier in the last, what is it January to now- three months? Not even that, eleven, twelve weeks- [at time of interview] I’ve been busier this whole time than I was ever before in the other shop. It’s mad. And it just shows you, doesn’t it, sometimes you’ve just got to take the leap and if it feels right and it’s in your gut you know it’s the right thing. I know I’ve made the right decision now.

It’s so nice that you both have that spirit of “Oh, I’m going to do this”- the two of you are like “I’ll have a crack at that- oh, it’s worked!”

I know, it was a bit like- we sat down together and we were like “shit, what have we done?”, in the first days when my poor Mum was like “what have I done? I can’t go back now.” And hopefully it will just keep continuing to grow, as well. I don’t really feel like there’s anything like it in the area.

Fairy Tara with Honey Hill Tearooms owner (and mum) Credit: Emily Packman Photography

Talking of the area- you mentioned you’ve grown up in Welwyn, obviously you’ve worked locally as well as touring elsewhere- how have you seen the local area change over the last... however long? Or have you seen any change?

Well it has, I think, obviously… everyone who lives in Welwyn knows it’s just like a dying town? When we were younger, everyone would go out to the shops, you know, the high street was booming, right? And now it just… It’s really sad, in Welwyn Garden City town, as an individual town I think that it really needs some more work. There’s nothing really around in there. That’s why I tend to go to Hitchin a lot- because I just find I love the whole small business community. I love that it is all small businesses, it’s not really many chain restaurants or shops or anything it’s just, all privately owned, small quirky businesses. And they all work together and they all connect. I just love that vibe.

Which is also what’s nice about being on this farm. It does feel like you’re all kind of working together. But just Welwyn as a whole, it’s changed massively, and it’s a shame because I think- even if they brought something to the town that wasn’t just food and drink, it was more, I don’t know, an arcade or something that brings people to connect with each other again. I think that would be really helpful, but I don’t know what the solution is with that particular town.

It's a shame that the landlords can’t rent out the units cheaper. We did a pop-up actually, in the Howard Centre, which is when I was testing out this whole idea in 2022, and that was really nice. It was a free thing that they funded, which was really nice, and everybody was raving about it because, like, we need something to do. Especially people with kids. There’s an awful lot of people with kids in this area and there isn’t enough to do for them. So they end up having to travel quite far out and stuff.

And, if I could ask you to use a little bit of your magic and look into the future, how would you say you would see the area changing in the next five or ten years?

Well I would love it to become more like Hitchin or St. Albans, I think- where there’s just lots more independent places. We’ve got a lot of farms and different bits like that around this area and I think that’s what makes Welwyn unique, is that you’ve got the town, you’ve also got Panshanger Park which is all the beautiful forest, but then you’ve got the farms as well. I think the more that we can… it would be nice if little places would pop up that you could go to, like destination places, you know- somewhere that you could go for a nice walk and end up spending the afternoon at that place.

But I definitely think in the town it would be good to have more stuff that’s like interactive stuff, or even if you made the whole Howard Centre restaurants and bars, you know, somewhere to go. Also somewhere for like teenagers to go, to be honest- I think they need more places. I mean, everyone knows that if you grew up in Welwyn, everyone would just hang out in parks and like, fields, because there was nowhere else to go.

So in an ideal world, that would be amazing. To just have a massive community of different businesses and… people have tried it, and it’s just been… unfortunately it hasn’t worked as well.

I think there’s a lot of people that, they do their nine to five job or whatever, and they don’t actually realise that they’ve got real creativity in them.

Maybe, maybe they’ll start seeing various things like this [Tewin Hill Farm]- little collectives that sort of say “I could have a pop at that”, have a bit of your spirit of “I’m going to try this now”…

Yeah! Not enough people do that. And I understand, everyone’s got different circumstances, and, you know, might not be able to just go “Oh, d’you know what, I’m just going to go and do that”, but I do think you should just try… if you’ve got an idea, you should just try it. Because what have you actually got to lose? Even if you can do something really small, just to get a gauge of how you feel doing it, and if people like it.

And I always think anyway, if you love something enough, and you can’t stop thinking about it, you should just do it. Because, if you love it, it’s naturally going to work, of course it’s going to work, because you love it and you’re putting out that energy of how exciting it is.

I know in myself even- if, if I’m not really bothered about something that I’m trying to sell, it will never sell. When I’ve done certain shows and stuff, if I’ve not really been that confident about it, or workshops, I’ve put it out there and it gets no bookings. And I just know everyone can feel the kind of, the vibes that I’m giving off of “mmm, not really sure about this one”.

But then the ones where I’m like “LOOK AT THIS GUYS, THIS IS SO EXCITING! I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU!” then it just sells instantly. So I just think that when you have an idea for a business, or a project, or whatever it is- you should, if you’re excited, you should just try it.

It maybe sounds easier said than done, I don’t know, but it just- there are ways. There are ways, y’know?

I hope that we could have a small business hub here, at some point, downstairs- to connect people- but we’ll see. We want to do more adult workshops and stuff downstairs, creative things, and networking things, and just… not like your typical networking things. Like, good, creative- they’ve got creative… there’s one in Hitchin, isn’t there? Hitchin Creative?

Yeah, they do regular meetups and things like Make Space for artists?

That’s it! I love that. That’s what we need. And I think there’s a lot of people that, they do their nine to five job or whatever, and they don’t actually realise that they’ve got real creativity in them. They just go like “No, no, I was never good at art at school” or whatever so then they just never try. But then they realise “Actually I’m really good at watercolours” or something, or crochet, and actually that could be something you could start. Because so many people always say… Like my friends who are in salary jobs say they’d “just do anything to switch roles with you”. And I’m like “Well, trust me, it's not as easy as I make it look- it’s not actually this magical and glamorous”. But you just need to find something that you love, and try a bit of everything, and then, you know, then you’ll know.

The Honey Hill Tearooms team. Credit: Emily Packman Photography

Outside of Tiny T’s, what do you do to enjoy yourself and unwind? And is there anywhere local that you go to or anything you do that you want to shout about?

Oh, yeah- I can tell you loads of places! I can recommend loads of businesses. I love- like, my dream day is to go for a really long walk, and take a picnic. I mean I basically am a fairy in my spare time. I love going to live music, or… I love jazz. So, when I… Originally, I’ve always been a singer and musician, I don’t get a chance to do that as much now and I’ve lost my confidence with it a bit but, yeah, I love singing. Anywhere where there’s some live music. I know The Hamm always does live music in Hitchin, and they’ve got nice beers! So that’s a shout out to them.

And there’s… I just love finding, like, cool, quirky places to go to where you can have a nice bit of something to eat, maybe go for a walk… I just, sadly, lost my little dog, but when I had my little dog my whole life was dedicated to finding cool places with the dog for a walk for the day, then stop off somewhere, have some drinks, have some food or whatever. So one of the other places I’d recommend- it’s a bit more further out, it’s in Buntingford, it’s called Baron beers. He’s called Jack Baron, that’s his family name- Baron Brewing, they sell beers in The Hamm, also the Beer Shop. His beers are amazing. He makes it all on site. It’s his parents’ farm- again, he’s on a farm.

That is such a cool place to go, and you can- obviously, you have to drive there, which is a bit of a pain, so maybe only have like one or two to be sensible, but you can obviously take some beers home with you and stuff, like he sells them all and stuff. And they do live music there sometimes, in the summer- and everyone brings their dogs, and they all run around because it’s on a farm, you’re just in the open.

So stuff like that really, I like to just unwind by- I think because the job itself is quite full on in terms of like, being in character all the time, and being the person that all the kids are looking at and talking to and “la la la la la la!” the whole time, I just like calm. When I’m not working, just… keeping fit, swimming, walking, anything like that really.

I do love drawing and stuff like that, but I don’t get a lot of time to do that either. To be honest with you, I’m just very lucky that my job is- was a hobby, kind of, first. So that all of my hobbies have kind of blended into one thing.

Yeah, I wish I could say I had other hobbies. I’m going to try to get into rollerblading this summer, just cos- I just want to do something a bit different! So yeah, that’s going to be the next thing. You might see me rollerblading round Hitchin…

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You can find out what is coming up next for Tiny T's, both at the Treehouse and in and around Hertfordshire here.