Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you, one and all!

IF - Winter

Winter snow sculptures courtesy of me and Edie, her idea was a pirate penguin on

her snowman's shoulder. We'd been to see Peter Pan at the Lowry, Salford - not a "panto" I was informed by staff, when asking if we could have a birthday shout-out (she was 7 the day after) - yet we all clapped and cheered to bring Tinkerbell back to life!- hmmmm?

Later to be knocked of his perch by a snowball from the lad next door.

IF - Mail

This is for the Christmas card I'm going to MAIL to my wife, and the one below is for last weeks IF which I never finished in time.

Red Dot

My entry for the St Helens Open Competition.

IF - Savour

Another tall story to savour from bunny.

IF - Sneaky

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Sneaky little devil, which house do you think he built?

IF - Burning

Pig had a burning ambition to become Tarzan king of the jungle - deluded fool.

IF - Afterwards aka Happy Bonfire Night

Remember, be like pig - keep your sparklers at arms length and afterwards put them in a bucket of water when they've gone out.

Have a safe Bonfire Night.

IF - Spent

Piggy just spent a penny . . . dirty pig.

If you're not familiar with the phrase look here.

Holidays are coming ....

To late for the Race

Heading for Disaster

IF - Racing

The Scooter Club meet every Monday evening to scoot, and what's the first rule of scooter club . . . .?

IF - Spooky

Spookily it was raining hats and frogs, then piggy remembered the trouble the dyslexic witch had with her spells.

Psychic Pig

Pig has a vision of his destiny.

IF - Transportation

Pigs and scooters don't mix.

Big John and his Bigger Chin

IF - Beneath

An Inspector Calls ....

IF - Old Fashioned

Pigs and their underwear.

Piglet without a cause

It's hard to toss a coin with a trotter.

"Ham"let

IF - Acrobat

These little pigs went to the circus.

IF - Proverb

Didn't get time to finish this week's IF.

Pink Coated Dog

Saw this poor little fella waiting at a bus stop and wondered what he'd be thinking.....

There's a frog in my sink

Found this little fella in my "pond", it's an old Belfast sink full of Jinny Greenteeth.
He has a pal that lives in the bush behind, but I've never seen them together in the water.

Liverpool Faces and a dog

Sketches while waiting for "the wife" to add to her already full wardrobe. By the way I only saw the dog in my head.

IF - Dessert

Unicycle Dog

I was thinking . . . it's something I do between daydreaming . . . if I had another dog what special talents should it have, and a came up with this . . . my last dog's talent was biting people and chasing trains . . . obviously not at the same time - she wasn't fast enough . . . du-doosh!

New Job

IF - Immovable

I honestly saw this happen in a bar once . . . mind you I'd had a few sherberts.

Bunny Sleepwalks

IF - Atmosphere

Those bad dogs strike again.

IF - Star Gazing

Just back off my hols, bit of a rushed one.... dog really did want to know how many stars there are in the sky.

And these seagulls had just spotted Foghorn Leghorn visiting St Ives....

IF - Artificial

That bionic leg is going to be of no use on a waxed surfboard, not to mention the rust from seawater - poor dog.

Last post for a fortnight - off on my hols to St Ives, Cornwall tomorrow, hope the weather picks up - it's rained here everyday since there was a hosepipe ban.

Changed this image from two to one bionic leg to follow on from from the post beneath, though I don't wish this on Leigh.

Get Well Soon Leigh

Did this for a friend of mine who's foot has gone under the knife today. He's not a big fan of British day time TV - but who is?

IF - Double

They say everyone has a human double, but did you know there's an animal double for each of us too?

On a historical note - and nothing to do with this post - I got stung by a wasp (on the foot) for the first time in my life at the weekend - and I'm 40 odd, (careful living you see). My wife as usual burst out laughing as I cartoon hopped all over the front garden - she finds people tripping over over in the street funny too - particularly if it's me.

ArtMonday - Communication

I'll try and colour this later.

IF - Breakfast

Breakfast - the most important meal of the day, miss it and you be thinking bananas all day, particularly if you are a little monkey on a big day.

Hair Bear Bunch Fan

and this was the inspiration

IF - Diary

1983 looked an interesting year.

Monday Artday - Construction

This one is an oldie, it was to promote screen printing on the back of overalls, the painter is the odd one out, no one knows who he is or how to contact him.

Dog's World Cup Prediction

Dog thinks that the Netherlands (or Holland as we like to call them) will win the World Cup. Hopefully he won't get death threats like Paul the psychic octopus.

IF - Giant

Even dogs can be anti-social.

IF - Satellite

Everytime dog has an ice cream - those seagulls are there again.

IF - Paisley

Tune in tomorrow to see what happens when dogs dive.

A bit rushed this week