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So AnElephantCan – sing?
Click on the title to see the viewing screen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uMhO-0feRgSee waje and hear Helensburgh’s AnElephantCant in a song developed for and with Brian Cairnduff’s grandson.The images on...
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Artist’s impression of a Single Outcome
Courtesy of artist Phil Burns of AnElephantCant, this is a rendering of Finance Secretary John Swinney being harangued by a Single Outcome of his own creation – but in this instancee, Burns describes...
View ArticleSunday Herald checks out daft words and daft drawings
For Argyll has long championed the wildly creative and cannily businesslike Waje merchants from Helensburgh’s AnElephantCant publishing company – Brian Cairnduff (‘daft words’) and Phil Burns (‘daft...
View ArticleThe Zonk Challenge
Here’s a bright idea to help a charity of your choice, have fun and make the space around you a good place to be.It’s described as a bargain.Next time you leave the house, go to...
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A normal day at the office with AnElephantCant
According to Brian Cairnduff, the talking half of Helensburgh’s An ElphantCant, this image shows no more than a normal day in the AnElephantCant workplace.Phil, of course, has the brush – I guess he is...
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A robindoodle from anelephantcant
Phil Burns from AnElephantCant - the innovative and successful Helensburgh children’s publishers and creators of waje (you must know what this is by now) – has just doodled this Robin as: ‘a Merry Xmas...
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anelephantcant curl
Now that the thaw’s arrived, Brian Cairnduff and Phil Burns of Helensburgh’s creative industry and publishing company, anelephantcant, have sent us this drawig by Phil with lyrics by Brian to give...
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AnElephantCant do the Winter Olympics
A topical wimp-out, courtesy of the irrepressible creative duo, Brian Cairnduff and Phil Burns, of Helensburgh-based AnElephantCant.AnElephantCant do Winter Olympics (that’s a poor way to finish a...
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AnElephantCant take Lord Prescott
House to HouseAnElephantCant believe what he’s hearing An Elephant is quite lost for words A man on the make Another Socialist fake Wearing ermine in the House of LordsThe latest of these two-faced...
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AnElephantCant forget Jimmy Reid
JimmyAnElephantCant ever forget When he first heard the name Jimmy Reid On the front page of every newspaper A brave man defined by his deedsHe fought for the rights of the workers He gave laldy to sad...
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AnElephantCant Bear to see Arrochar children play Chicken on the A83
As parents of Arrochar’s 28 primary school children prepare to lobby Argyll and Bute Council at its full meeting tomorrow - Phil Burns (artist) and Brian Cairnduff (writer), from children’s publishing...
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Half AnElephantCant stay away from France
The northern plains of France are often described as flat and boring.Personally, we find the vast, gently undulating area to be a peaceful rustic idyll – a reflection of your correspondent .Travelling...
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Behind the Arras
In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Polonius hides behind the arras – a sort of wall hanging – to spy on Hamlet for Claudius, the Uncle who has just murdered his brother, Hamlet’s father and replaced him...
View ArticleArrochar tinies share AnElephantCant with their Tarbet schoolmates
The silver lining gleams again as the skies darken for the Arrochar tinies condemned to dice with trucks on a ‘safe’ walking route to primary school on the A83, through the narrow defile under the rail...
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AnElephantCant stay warm in winter
AnElephantCant stay warm in winter He has trouble finding bed-socks his size He needs a giant hotty To warm his mammoth botty And his duvet’s a big top in disguiseTo wrap up AnElephant is not easy He...
View ArticleAnElephantCant resist the National Theatre of Scotland
Helensburgh writer, Brian Cairnduff who, with artist, Phil Burns, runs the children’s publisher, AnElephantCant, has recently seen one of his stories included in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Five...
View ArticleMake a list with Brian Cairnduff
This is fun you might want to share.Brian Cairnduff is Helensburgh’s half of the creative children’s publishing business AnElephantCant. Brian is the writing half while Phil Burns from Inverclyde is...
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AnElephantCant help supporting Mary’s Meals
Helensburgh-based childrens’ publisher, AnElephantCant, has been touched by our coverage of the work of Mary’s Meals, the Argyll-based international children’s food aid charity.They have decided to...
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AnElephantCant always avoid cliches
AnElephantCant always avoid clichÈs The artist has mentioned this a million times He gets sick as a parrot All stick and no carrot But the rhymer sometimes needs one for a rhymeWe know the doodler has...
View ArticleAnElephantCant get over Loch Lomond in the early morning
Brian Cairnduff, the writing partner in the AnElephantCant children’s publishing team - with Inverclyde artist, Phil Burns – accompanied the unable elephant to Loch Lomond on Tuesday (27th March).The...
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