Probably a juvenile penguin which got in trouble in stormy weather.
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I still use a lot of paper, but I get my rough paper (for doodling ideas) from a connection at the council (lots of paper, only printed on one side). My originals are drawn small and thanks to a suggestion from Lemon, I now fit two dailies onto one A4 sheet and use half the paper I used to. Sanity and repetitive strain injury keep me from doing all my work digitally.
After sending in this cartoon
I got this message:
Panel 2 seems to be another Briticism, between “shepherds take warning” (UK) and “sailors take warning” (US). “Sailor” returns more Google hits, and I’d never heard the “shepherd” version before myself; but it seems to be an accepted variant of the rhyme even if it’s use is more limited. Do you think it would be confusing enough to readers to warrant a change?
I guess there weren’t as many shepherds in the US as in the UK, Australia and New Zealand when this phrase came into use.
Tags: another Briticism
My editor doesn’t like puns, but let’s most of mine through. But he was right to nix this one!
I had a day to come up with ideas for Arctic Circle yesterday and started by cycling to the Botanic Gardens and wandering around the recently refurbished Guilfoyle’s Volcano. I then biked on to the State Library where the children’s book illustration exhibition sucked up over an hour of my time. Great original art, sketchbooks and interviews by illustrators including the charming Leigh Hobbs and the awe-inspiring Shaun Tan.
Tags: guilfoyles volcano, melbourne, royal botanic gardens, state library
I doubt Hector’s is a good place for coffee, but I imagine free wi-fi is scarce in the Arctic.
Hector puts in free wi-fi
Hector turns off free wi-fi
I wrote this after noticing the number of laptop users in my local cafe, Presse. They sure know how to eek out a cappuccino.
Tags: arctic, cafe, cartoon, Circle, comic strip, free, melbourne, wi-fi
This series was inspired by living in Melbourne, a UNESCO City of Literature. Which reminds me, I better hurry up and finish “Everything is illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer – Elwood book club is next week.
Snowpeak is shortlisted to become a City of Literature
Or not.
Tags: book group, books, city of literature, reading, typo, typographical error
I went to a community consultation held by South East Water on Tuesday evening. It was a great mix of all sorts of people from different suburbs and of different ages. I met a really cool woman there called Annetine who regularly makes expeditions to the Red Centre (Aussie desert) with friends of hers, despite being in her 70s. An inspiriation.
Mungo National Park (via The Age)
She passed me her card and I looked up her web site and was glad to read this:
Ancient Redgum Australia reinvests all profits from sales into a small research grant offered through the Museum of Victoria. The grant allows students to research the evolution of these trees. They are encouraged to learn more about climate’s role in the demise of the trees and how those changes relate to current climate change issues.
Good on you, Annetine!
Tags: australian, desert, environment, red centre, red gum, water-saving
This rejected rough was written after I read about an iPhone app that provides ripostes to the arguments of climate sceptics. BB felt that the underlying [English] sarcasm wouldn’t come through and it would be playing into the hands of the sceptics. Probably right.
I do like the insult of "monkey-brained doofus"
Tags: anti-sceptic, cartoon, climate change, rejected rough, sceptic, skeptic
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