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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…

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Pie Chi and Fettling: A short introductory illustrated Guide to the Wigan Form of the Art.

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Ear are tinstructions fot First form uv Wigan Pie Chi. Translation from the above is: Here are the instructions for the first form of Wigan Pie Chi, a North West of England form of the art where the tongue stays firmly in the cheek. Fettling is local parlance for fixing stuff, and these excersizes will fettle you. Enjoy. The passing of the pie ( Passin tut pie ) Stand with arms by your side, knees slightly bent, head up straight as if looking over someone’s shoulder at a Rugby league match. You should be wearing a shell suit or something … Continue reading Pie Chi and Fettling: A short introductory illustrated Guide to the Wigan Form of the Art.

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So British to talk about the weather.

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So perhaps we might give it a rest as our present weather seems to stay the same every day. Hours of unbroken sunshine every day has been the recent norm. Recent Norm sounds not unlike a nickname that you get on an early American TV Sitcom. He’d have had a catchphrase that would be adopted by the public, or at least that public that watched TV, which unlike these days was a large percentage. Remember “What do you think of it so far?” the answer: “Rubbish!”. A catch phrase that only people of a certain age would understand these days … Continue reading So British to talk about the weather.

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Dark chocolate and a baguette.

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My mother gave me a fruitcake to give to the French. She’d arranged the trip for me with a friend who worked at the local girl’s grammar school. I was to be the only boy amongst thirty 16 year old schoolgirls going on a French exchange to Paris. Sounded reasonable to me, I might learn a thing or two. I did and it wasn’t all French. To put this in context I was a boarder at the local all boy’s grammar school. My contact with any girls at all was minimal. Our school did no such sort of exchange with … Continue reading Dark chocolate and a baguette.