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Archive > December 2010
Red Nose and Dribbles
Not much from me today I’m afraid. Down and out with cold all week. Let’s face it – it’s that time of year. Can do no more than post this (last year’s Xmas card as it turns out). My nose is about the same colour. Now then, where are the tissues…?
Trunkster
Dear diary, Day 293 in the caves and my observations for the B.U.M. continue apace. I have recently been studying the creature illustrated above, which I have named the trunkster. Diet: These are browsing herbivores, existing on tree, shrub and leaf material, supplemented by the occasional bun. Appearance: The trunkster has webbed feet and a [...]
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
John’s snowy triumph
On day release from the caves last week I was rooting around the old parental loft and found, nestled amongst the bats and worms and empty absinthe bottles, a teeny tiny newspaper I’d made when I was five. I’d forgotten all about these early journalistic tendencies, but now I’ve seen the teeny tiny newspaper again [...]
Broccoli Woman is Smirking
What fresh, amusing Hell has she dreamed up for us now in the lightless green depths of her vegetable mind? We are doomed, I tell you. Doomed.
The book is dead! Long live the book!
This week, and for the first time ever, I laid my hands on some of that amazon kindling stuff. Well, it was rubbish for lighting fires; couldn’t get it to give me a spark no matter how many of its lovely little buttons I pressed. I even tried to use the screen to reflect the [...]
An Elephant never…um, I’ve forgotten.
It’s very strange to look back through an old sketchbook and come across something that you’ve quite forgotten about. I have no idea what this elephant is planning but, quite frankly, she looks like trouble.
A Postcard from Cosmo
I found this on my drawing board this morning. previous postcard / next postcard
Unique Witchfinder Competition! Update!
Hi guys! Firstly, many apologies for my absence from the caves – the monsters allowed me a little time out so that I could finish the final Witchfinder book – The Last Nightfall *sob* The only problem now is that I have repay my grisly guardians… in flesh! But before I submit to the monsters’ fish hooks and cleavers, [...]
