By way of a change I’ve been on a walking holiday in Crete where we had a leader telling us exactly where we should go. A retired police officer from Nottinghamshire he was not only good company but also good at … Continue reading I’ve been proceeding…
This is another from the book, in this case the illustration is not quite faithful to the words, but there you go! Please note the pork pie in the plastic cover, which in days of yore would benefit from being … Continue reading The fly is on the inside…
…occurs in both sexes. Driven out of populous areas by larger, more aggressive types, the remaining few Bookshop Owners survive in nooks and crannies. Cyril Trumpet was the last scion of the family Trumpet, owners and runners of Trumpet & … Continue reading Bookshop Owner
Will probably be extinct by 2020. Rambler’s winter and summer coat is tweed, with check shirt, heather mixture stockings and stout boots. The male often has a deerstalker or a flat cap, the female a balaclava which rolls up to … Continue reading Rambler
Sometime in the 1970s, a design engineer had the idea of putting a computer in a car. At that instant, an entire breed was sentenced to death and we can expect Man Who Mends Cars to be virtually extinct in the western world by about 2015AD. Then, there will remain only a few isolated individuals within whom will reside the last shreds of knowledge about how to repair cars rather than psychoanalyse them and reconstitute them with plug-in components. By then, except in Famagusta and at Classic Car rallies, you will never see a Ford Cortina nor any kind of … Continue reading Man who mends cars.
Isolated examples may survive in remote parts of Scotland. One of the strangest varieties of all, Proper Doctor only existed in one sex and did not have adolescent stages (vide Goat Woman). Proper Doctor simply appeared as an adult male aged 45 with his Gladstone bag already battered. In daylight, he would often wear plus-fours and a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches (vide Schoolmaster). If he came to see you at night, he would be dressed in black tie and dinner jacket. Proper Doctor’s role was one of reassurance and confidence building. He was not familiar with the panoply … Continue reading Proper Doctor
I did a book. It took some time. I did not write it myself, in fact I wrote none of the golden words therein. They are all hand crafted by writer Gordon Thorburn http://www.gordonthorburn.co.uk I had a hand in the idea, and I did all the drawings. I’m going to let you take a look at it from these pages over the next few weeks and,like a lot of drawings , they sometimes work better with words. In this particular case they look lost without them. Mr Thorburn is responsible for a lot of words over the years, including … Continue reading Some missing persons…
We live in a town which is blessed by many trees, many large trees with lots of leaves. They are starting to drop and collect in the road. The local council will be clearing these leaves and have recently started to do so, first with the advance ‘guard’ of leaf blower man.Fully kitted out with what appears to be and sounds like a small motorbike on his back, he advances down the road blowing the leaves from his manufactured wind, into the road. Off the pavement and into the road. This is so that he can be followed by leaf … Continue reading Leaf blower man returns…
All the effort of the past months that my wife, Elisabeth Le Vierge has put into creating some really super paintings has come to fruition in an exhibition with other talented artists at the Garron Centre in beautiful Herefordshire. http://www.llangarron.info … Continue reading Hanging pictures and a great day out.
I do a regular drawing for a magazine called the Best of British, and this is one of the series.The articles generally reflect on past English institutions and the changes we see today.We were never very good at cooking over here, but now we are better at it than the French!They seem to be unlearning everything they have had for centuries and we seem to be taking in what they are discarding. That aside those programmes on the telly featuring people trying to be master chefs is part of the inspiration for this drawing. They appear to spend three hours … Continue reading E is for eating…
Meanwhile back at the drawing board… I’ve been asked to re-do a drawing of the Professor and here he is. They say one always draws oneself, or elements of oneself.In this particular case this chap looks more like my Dad ( 93 next birthday, so not quite so energetic as this chap! But still with all marbles functioning) So here’s hoping for a reaction! Continue reading The Nutty Profession…
There are days when it seems everything goes right, the weather set fair and the plan for a walk with a chum comes to fruition.Lack of such a thing as a map to find the start point for the ‘chum walk’ does cause some initial ripples but nothing that cannot be sorted out by asking a delivery driver in a not-so-nearby village.”Your miles away” is the initial reaction but after that his directions set me on the right track. After that we set off in the Mendips for a super day out, with picnic of sandwiches at the highest point.There … Continue reading Just such a perfect day.
Paul Davies Cartoons & stuff 