My nephew turns 9 today
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Tags: off topic
This upcoming Sunday drop panel was inspired by a favourite crayfish shack near Kaikoura, New Zealand.
Oscar gets his hands messy at the crayfish shack
The crayfish shack near Kaikoura - Nin's Bin
Howard makes use of old stuff in the garden plot
Our plot isn’t big enough to grow potatoes in tyres, but we use recycled materials wherever possible. The trellis for the passionfruit was found in a skip!
Me and our gardening neighbour, Tom, at the other end of our little plot
Tags: american spelling, gardening, growing, hummer, potatoes, recycling, theft, tires, tyres
We took a day out in our borrowed car (thanks, Clare!) to go to the Yarra Valley yesterday. Were a bit disappointed at the Farmers Market, as a lot of the fresh produce wasn’t produced locally, but bought in, like a greengrocers.
Good looking but not very local produce
Awesome pain au chocolates
boyf and billie at Giant Steps/Innocent Bystander. Coffee good too
We then took Billie to Yarra State Forest (where dogs are allowed) and walked to La La Falls (nice walk, but too short). Boyf saw these weird caterpillars massed on the track. Huge and ugly, I wonder what they pupate into!
weird caterpillars in Yarra State Forest
Click here to see video: Weird big ugly caterpillars
At La La Falls
Tags: best bloody pain au chocolate in the world, farmers market, yarra valley
Enjoyed drawing this fencing sequence for a strip that will be published next year.
Gordo and Ed the penguins fence
I know that it is off topic, but coffee and cafes fuel us creative types and the boyf and I discovered another great one in South Melbourne: Dead Man Espresso. Good coffee, evil brownie and music that was so good I downloaded it from iTunes (Guy Blackman).
nice communal table with sought after balcony seats behind
I'll fess up - I made him turn to this page...
Tags: coffee
Philip Wollen at Melbourne Sustainability Drinks
We went to a Melbourne Sustainability Drinks last week. The speaker was Philip Wollen:
Philip Wollen, former vice-president of Citibank, general manager at Citicorp and once one of the top 40 head-hunted executives in Australia – now facilitator of kindness will discuss how to use venture capital for good causes, radical banking and his aim to “give it all away”…
This was partly true, but the main thing he talked about was how not eating meat is by far the biggest thing any of us in the room could do to prevent climate change. Probably true and difficult to do. One of my friends left, depressed, shortly after he said that everyone in the room had one thing in common:
They all want to change the world as long as they don’t have to change themselves.
Ouch. After the talk, boyf and I went to dinner. I had aubergine parmagiana. He had spag bol.
Tags: chastised, climate change, drinks, vegan, vegetarianism
Boyf, Billie and I went on the Poets walk today. Elwood was named after a poet, Thomas Ellwood (Coincidentally, the one other known Ellwood place name is from Pennsylvania, where the boyf harks from.) and many of the streets are named after other poets. We live in Southey Street, which is named after Robert Southey and I have just discovered he came from Bristol, where I was born.
Poets Grove
Tennyson Street
Meyer is a fount of local knowledge
It was a warm sunny morning for the walk
Elwood Canal
Fellow twitterer, Alan Garner recommended John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Run’ for book club and then promptly buggered off back to Blighty (after I had redesigned his twitter icon, too!). We will miss his erudite musings, though I’m not sure about the book…quite misogynistic, but written in 1959 and published 1961, so things were different then.
Wrote this one after the news that Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles
I had a good chat with Brendan this morning and I’m pleased to be working on a whole series of AC strips that see Oscar return to Antarctica for a visit. A couple of other strips didn’t make it though:
BB thought this bizarre and not in keeping with the strip. He's probably right.
BB thought that the use of gunpowder was too risky for the comics page
Stuff that Bugs Bunny could get away with is too risky for the newspaper comics.
Tags: editorial, nixed, rough work
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