Superpuffin is no ordinary puffin. He can fly at twenty times the speed of sound. He lives in a burrow on the cliffs at Sumburgh Head in Shetland. His friend Thomas lives in a bungalow in Bayswater, New Zealand. One night Superpuffin collects Thomas and 45 minutes later they land on a beach in Shetland where the otters are playing...

Ewen Mackenzie-Bowie has a career in international education, initially as an English language teacher and later in marketing and administration, in Europe and, since 2000, in New Zealand. He is Principal and Chairman of ICL Education Group, with 1200 students on programmes up to Master's degrees. Ewen and his wife Nathalie migrate to Europe annually, on journeys a little longer than 45 minutes, while Thomas and his brother Maxim, now in their twenties, visited Mosshouse many times in their youth and often saw draatsies there.