I didn’t post (or work) as much as I’d planned to on the road, so I’ll be putting up some pics from points of interest on our 6 week trip.
Cycling has taken off since I was last in NYC and these bike parking bays are great
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I recently scored a lovely little gig for a teaching magazine and I’m in the process of doing my second cartoon for them. The first two roughs were rejected and this one rightly so – on reflection, it would only appeal to those who were traumatised by their chemistry practical lab work like me. Those who remember that every test seemed to require production of a crystalline white solid instead of the murky brown liquid that was the actual result.
yes, my roughs are very rough
Tags: cartoon, experiment, laboratory, practical, rough, science
A great mate of mine turns 40 today - hurrah!
Fish have different personality types
This idea came from an article about how fish really do have different personality types. And before anyone takes umbrage against my attack on Scorpios, well today is my birthday. I’m hitting the big four-oh and taking the train from Sydney to Perth to celebrate!
Tags: 3 day train trip, astrology, eating, fish, scorpio
The boyfriend biked over to Seddon the other day. He had heard about a nice little wine store on twitter and spent about an hour there talking to the guy who runs it (Jeremy). Jeremy doesn’t want people to think his store is just fancy schmancy stuff, so he printed some great little cartoon postcards that demonstrate that perfectly. Got my attention (and normally I glaze over a little when the boyf goes on about wine).
A lovely promo for a wine store in Seddon
Tags: cartoon promotion
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
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
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
Another of my good friends from school turns 40 today. Her nickname at school was Lemon, but she liked it so much she changed her name by deed poll. Happy birthday, Lemon!
40 lemons
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