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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.

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Cathedral Sculpture and an empty factory

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I took this photograph some ten years ago at the Cathedral in Gloucester when they were starting to assemble a sculpture Exhibition which was to feature many stunning sculptures throughout the Cathedral grounds and the building itself. This was the second time that the people at the Cathedral arranged for this sort of event. I was involved to a small degree in that I was the lucky print guy who got the work for Severnprint where I worked in sales. We were to produce a catalogue of the exhibition as well as a map of the locations of all the … Continue reading Cathedral Sculpture and an empty factory

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“It could go either way” and other such horrors of “sportspeak”.

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A surfeit of Sportage has brought in a word shortage. What with cricket, a sport that takes days and can easily end in a draw, as well as a huge amount of tennis and now women’s football there has been a massive eruption of cliches. “This can go either way” has been used tirelessly when in fact ‘it’ can go only one way, with the exception of cricket where the phrase: ” a draw might be on the cards’ may well be dropped, as often as a catch. Try explaining cricket to anyone unfamiliar with the game, and you could … Continue reading “It could go either way” and other such horrors of “sportspeak”.

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Northern Soul in a former Museum?

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A trip into Gloucester to the Folk, what was formerly the Folk Museum, but is now just “the Folk” with most of the Museum displays removed. It’s a sort of rebranding that seems to say “ we like the building, but we don’t know what to do with it”. They have events and volunteers coming from all directions who are hugely enthusiastic and friendly and will tell you all about the place. And they have events, on Saturday afternoon they had a couple of Northern Soul enthusiasts with their dj deck and massive speakers blasting out some brilliant Northern Soul … Continue reading Northern Soul in a former Museum?

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The Finest Tudor Facade in the Country

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An afternoon out in Gloucester, first to take a look at what they have been doing to this very narrow alleyway in the centre of the city. An amazing piece of restoration. I’ve known of this building for many years and it fell into disrepair some years ago. At last someone has done something about it and what a superb job. There’s hardly room to swing a cat around this very narrow alley, but look up and the magnificent frontage of this building is there for all to see. Here’s what they say about it: It’s just a few doors … Continue reading The Finest Tudor Facade in the Country

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First find your dongle…

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What we do for information these days is a measure of how far we have come. I’m not going to call them good old days as they simple were n’t, but back ‘then’ new equipment came with an instruction book, which all God fearing men used to ignore completely until the thingy was done and it did not seem to work. The arrogance of knowing how to put stuff together was something I was born with, just as well they never let me construct anything that carried people, like a car or a plane. Dongle had a different meaning back … Continue reading First find your dongle…