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2018-03-11 Would Mouse like to leave now?

Mar11
by on 2018-03-11 at 13:17
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Gosh, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Sorry about that.

Anyway, turns out that taking pity on the cute* likkle wood mouses and letting them use our house during the cold spell was not without consequence. After finding mouse droppings on the breakfast table even Karen was convinced that murine check-out time had now arrived. We baited the (humane!) trap with peanut butter, which the little dears love so much that even once the trap door is opened to freedom they’d still rather have just one more little nibble before they go.

Six so far, and counting.

UPDATE: We took about 14 mice away, or possibly two mice seven times each (on average.) Then Karen took two of them a lot further away and now we have no mice at all. The house is quiet and sad again — we miss them. (But not their poo.)

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*oh! But they are SO cute!

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Wood mouse sitting at a table prepares to eat bread and peanut butter, oblivious to the primed mouse-trap around the peanut butter jar.

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2017-08-01 It Ain’t Natural

Aug02
by on 2017-08-02 at 18:52
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1. King Kong ravages the city.
2. [Label reads: 100% polyester]

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2016-11-16 Devil on the Train

Nov16
by on 2016-11-16 at 22:02
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I’m afraid this is what came out of my brain today, whilst on the train back to Oxford after a day in London. I went for a meeting which finished an hour before the National Gallery closed. At the gallery I was inspired by a striking image of St. Michael slaughtering a devil, painted in 1468 by Bartolomé Bermejo:
Saint Michael Triumphs over the Devil, by Bartolomé Bermejo, 1468
I mean — Jeepers Creepers, where’d you get those eyes?

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Bartolomé's devil rides a train through moonlit countryside.

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2016-10-31 Itchy and Knee in Mind Games

Oct31
by on 2016-10-31 at 21:15
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Happy Halloween!

Itchy is just being himself today. I feel rather sorry for Knee, but what can you do?

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Itchy saws open Knee's head, pulls out his brain, flips and rotates it like a rubik cube and dunks it back in.

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2015-08-08 Clown

Aug15
by on 2015-08-15 at 11:59
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No comic today, but I wanted to share two doodles from my sketchbook.  The second one I made at the hospital, waiting for a gastroscopy*, and perhaps then the theme is obvious.  In hindsight I now understand the first one too!

I’m happy to say they found nothing!  The doctor allowed me to turn slightly to look at the monitor, so now I have gazed at my navel from both sides.

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(* The spelling checker is complaining, and suggesting gastropod instead.  I think that would have been far tastier.)

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A clown's head floating in space, with an octopus wrapped around the peak of his pointed hat; a spotted bow-tie; we can see through the oesophagus, a hand operated meat mincer.

A periscope with an eye on a flexible tube, peering into a maze of transparent tubes, one of which opens up into a sphere containing a whale, a shark, an octopus. A network of vein-like tubes cover the surface.

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2015-07-24 Underwater Eyeland

Jul24
by on 2015-07-24 at 15:20
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This is just about the longest I’ve ever spent on a single drawing, over a few days while sitting in the hospital waiting for Karen’s op and then waiting for her to be discharged.  I started without a plan, just drew an onion with eyes.  Everything else seemed to have eyes too, and a sea theme emerged.  I hope it amuses someone!

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a multitude of strange sea-creatures, with many strange human-like eyes (and some human limbs) float about around an apparently man-made tunnel-like structure, also with eyes.

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2015-05-08 Black Crow

May08
by on 2015-05-08 at 19:51
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I guess the crows will have the last laugh.

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black crow sits on a branch.

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2014-12-06 Allotment

Dec09
by on 2014-12-09 at 22:14
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Polytunnels.  One more thing to be scared of at the full moon.  Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the turnips.

We went to the exhibition of Gothic art at the British Library last weekend: “Terror and Wonder – the Gothic Imagination.”  Highly recommended.

UPDATE: Potential solution to the poly tunnel menace:

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Polytunnels. And the full moon. And allotments. Mwahaha.

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2014-11-26 The Pea and the Princess

Nov28
by on 2014-11-28 at 00:00
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I find myself wondering about alliterative story titles.  If it had been not a princess but a countess then I suspect she would have been traumatised by a cauliflower rather than a pea.

See Aarne-Thompson classification number 704. Also see this.

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Pea couldn't sleep at all. Through a dozen slabs of marble and hardest obsidian he could feel something soft and yielding. By the time morning arrived he was bruised all over.

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