Walls Have Ears

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello.....

 

Human ear found in graveyard in Aylesbury......

Dog In A Hoodie

As seen in Manchester Picadilly station, en route for Peak District ramble.

American Apparel shop window... dog dummy; dummy 

You Shall have a Fishy On a Little Dishy When The Boat Comes In

Secret Panama Fishfarm produces giant genetically-modified salmon.  

Euro Disney

 

Euro Disney in bother after apparently hiring private eyes to spy on job applicants

Brian Blessed's Shuttle Diplomacy

 Brian Blessed gives David Cameron an earbending on World Day for Laboratory Animals.......



RIP Shamshad Begum

 

 

Farewell Indian singing legend Shamshad Begum - the woman who "captivated the hearts" of listeners - died in  Mumbai, aged 94.See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZxCVJrQnQY

Darlek Night at The Proms

Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall is to feature a Darlek, commemorating Doctor Who's 50th anniversary...

Bourton-on-the-Water

 

Bourton-on-the-Water gets Listed Building status for its 1 to 9 scale model village, opened on Coronation Day,  1937

Postman Pat's Golden Handshake

 

Royal Mail Sell Off Imminent

Hard Cheese

 

Dairy Crest top up their pension fund by investing in value of cheese as it matures.....

Darth Vader's Bus Pass

 

A New Star Wars Trilogy is to be filmed.........

Beware of the Whale

 

Donner und Blitzen! Germans have found  a tub of radioactive waste dumped in the English Channel between 1950 and 1963. One of 28,000!

Florida Mollusc Mayhem

Thousands of giant snails are causing chaos on the roads in the Everglades.

Keswickin'

 

Felice Cumpleonos Dom....thanks for a great week amigos

American Tan



April 1996 Lakes Sketchbook

 Derwent Water from Blea Crag across Maiden Moor

 Catbells and Derwent Water

Maiden Moor

Langdale 2005

 

Marcus returns to Langdale ....I drew us walking over  the weir in 2005 by the "Troll bridge" after tramping up the valley. This time he arrived in an open top bus!

Get out your crayons

Unfortunately I cut off the back cover of the Maggie Thatcher Lots to Do Book, so I can't give credit to the artists

The Maggie Thatcher Lots to Do Book

Here's something I found from 1982, by way of a tribute...

 

Wild Boars

 

 Residents disgusted by boarish behaviour in the Forest of Dean. Bin bags ripped open, grass verges trampled and gardens ransacked. Boar ASBOs being issued...

The Queen's Mars Bar

 

The Queen visits the Mars Bar factory in Slough (7th April 2013)

The North South Divide

 

The blog has been on holiday in the Lake District. Meanwhile, Kim Jong Un sets off a few rockets, upsetting the neighbours.

Guinea Pigs

War Surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe honoured with memorial sculpture in East Grinstead, where  pioneering plastic surgeon  McIndoe, rescued  hundreds of second world war air crew  from despair, rebuilding faces left unrecognisable by burns. The  sculpture is by Martin Jennings, whose own father, Michael, was one of those treated by McIndoe.
Read about the "Guinea Pig Club" See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/01/plastic-surgery-archibald-mcindoe-memorial

Cutouts for Shabang Animation

 

HMS Rocky Bottom sails off in search of a magic musical box....

The Things They Say

 

 

Happy World Autism Awareness Day. It's a wonderful world.



Rocky Bottom

 

For Kim, Russ, Reuben and Jolly Pirates everywhere