Month: August 2025

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Restaurant trousers.

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I don’t go out to ‘restaurants’ very much these days, I’m more at home with cafes after a good walk. There are some where I will go out of my way to visit, one being the local privately owned Garden Centre ( here ) where I can feed my plant addiction as well as my food addiction. One of my acid tests for a good eatery is the quality of the coffee, and Dundry coffee is second to none. More recently we went to a Cotswold pub which is these days a pub/restaurant. So a notch up or two from … Continue reading Restaurant trousers.

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Chopin Liszt

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No, I meant shopping list. There I was scribbling it out on an old piece of layout paper where I’d scribbled this little drawing that I planned to put on the back of a greetings card envelope for Ruby, a baby I don’t know but close to my good friends Mike and Judie. A long story. Mike asked me if I’d do a little something for this little somebody who’s just arrived. Off it went on the back of their greeting card envelope which he’d forgotten to post and as a sort of apology to ‘management’. He was happy. I … Continue reading Chopin Liszt

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An Approximate Biker

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Working on a book by a chap called Jim. This is one of the many characters in the book and my approximation of motorbike at speed. My drawings/cartoons are always approximations. This tends to elicit comments from people like motorbike purists. I was once asked to draw a bloke’s favourite bike, approximation would not do, it was a nightmare for me. I gave up in the end and we never spoke again, sadly he assumed that as I could do approximations I might be able to do exact. No, not exactly, in fact not at all. Some illustrators can draw … Continue reading An Approximate Biker

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Fruit boat. It’s a thing.

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I’ve always been a collaborator. Not in the French Resistance type sinister way, but in my work as a cartoonist, after all I started as a visualiser, putting other peoples ideas into an image. I’m not short of the odd idea myself ( some of them very odd ), but to earn a crust working with others is best, and other people have great ideas. My grandsons have great ideas and I’ve recently been working with two of them, small people with big ideas. I sit at my desk and we draw together, I suggest a boat and they expand … Continue reading Fruit boat. It’s a thing.