Any requests?

Today, despite the fairly important goings-on at General Synod, is a day when I need to make significant progress on an entire summers-worth of cartoons. So, any requests? (In truth I mean ‘any ideas?’, but ‘requests’ sounds like I am a bit more competent than I actually am.) I will post a tiny prize to…

Cartoon lab: Going back to church

Good morning. A break from cartoons today as I could do with a tiny bit of help. Today’s topic for the cartoon lab (hosted on this blog today): Going back to church Any suggestions on this welcomed: What to expect, what to do when you get there, what to expect, pitfalls to avoid, any other…

Cartoon lab

Cartoon lab

Well, hello everyone. *clears throat* I haven’t been doing very well at cartooning recently. I’m not going to go into the details, but let’s just say I need a bit of help. So, I’ve set up a small experimental website for discussion of ideas. It may or may not work, but it’s worth a try….

Back to work

Back to work

I’m back from being away on holiday. I can never really tell you about our holidays beforehand for security reasons, but it is now safe to say that we went to Holt in Norfolk, where we stayed in a cottage one minute and fourteen seconds from the Kings Head. Activities included bicycling, railways and pretending…

Christmas cartoon ideas

Every now and then I have a bit of a cartoon ‘ideas appeal’ here on the blog. I’m currently working on a couple of Christmas cartoon projects and would dearly appreciate a small amount of help from anyone who has a minute to spare. There are two subjects I’m working on: 1) The Parish Christmas…

The Calvinistic highway engineers

The Calvinistic highway engineers

Pure silliness. Fortunately, it being Monday, very few people are reading. Optional activity If anyone has time on my hands I’d welcome thoughts on the following. Question 1 What do you keep in your vestry? Odd or peculiar items from vestries you have known welcomed. Question 2 What is kept on the tables at the…

Cartoon information gathering

A huge thank-you to the people who have suggested ideas over the last couple of weeks. You might have noticed one or two from the lists appearing and there are more on the way. If anyone has any inside insights into the following topics then any contributions would be welcomed: 1. Unusual or interesting arrangements…

Deanery chapter meetings

Thought I might do a diagram on the subject. If anyone who attends such occasions can help me via the comments (or via e-mail if you don’t want your comments published) that would be super. So, deanery chapter meetings: What happens? What subjects get talked about? What do you like and/or dislike about them? The…

Things to take to church

Another post in my ‘ideas appeal’ series. Today’s subject: What should you take to church? Are there different things you should take at different times of year and in the different liturgical seasons? All comments will be appreciated: sensible or absurd, mundane or creative. Thanks in advance for any replies.

Family services

Todays idea appeal subject is ‘family services’, or ‘all age services’. Questions: What are the essential elements of a family service? Do you love them or hate them? Feel free to tell us why. Anything you can tell me would be a help. Thanks again in advance.

Things clergy carry

Really quick question: What do the clergy carry around with them at all times to help them do their job? Or, what would they ideally be able to carry around with them at all times? Thanks again – this is a real help to me.

Five short posts

As hinted at in the title, five short posts: Unicyclist makes the 6pm service I was impressed to read in the comments of the ‘absenteeism’ post that Sam, a reader of this blog, still made it to the 6pm service having finished his successful 24 hour unicycling world record attempt on the Sunday morning. Sorry…

Excuses for absenteeism

Today has been the first day of my self imposed ‘get a lot done’ cartoon season. It has not been a great success. I have been procrastinating and undertaking non-essential tasks such as allowing my pens to warm up to room temperature. I have worked out that I need to get one really good cartoon…