Penguins

Some people find this hard to believe but its a true story. My wife and I are video makers and we specialize in making work with contemporary dancers ( this will be relevant later on). Just before the birth of our first daughter in 2002 my wife picked up a little soft toy kit of a penguin and lovingly sewed it together ready for the happy day. After she finished it I pointed it out that she had sewed the beak on the wrong way round so we named him 'mumble'. About a month after our daughter was born we lost mumble on a walk through our village and despite an extensive search we never saw him again though we often brought him up in conversation as a much loved lost toy. In 2006 I was listening to the radio and became aware of a someone talking about a new film coming out called Happy Feet about a dancing penguin called Mumble. We decided our toy penguin must have made it to Hollywood had a beak job and the early experience of being around dance artists obviously had some impact on his career (but he never came back to visit).