12 Nov 21 – Second Fight Hi Everyone, Don’t know if you read last week’s email where had my first fight in the playground and used far too many Rocky references Sorry, did it again, that’s the last one, promise.
5 Nov 21 – First Fight
5 Nov 21 – First Fight Hi Everyone, I’ve had two fights in my life, I was claimed to be the victor in both, and never swung a single punch that connected. I wasn’t an heroic Rocky-type figure tiring out
29 Oct 21 – The Dentists
29 Oct 21 – The Dentists Hi Everyone, Have you ever done this for 90 minutes before? I have, and it wasn’t after that 2-0 home defeat by Everton last year. I was at the dentists getting my wisdom teeth
22 Oct 21 – James Bond
22 Oct 21 – James Bond Hi Everyone, I went to see James Bond with a couple of friends this week, no spoilers so don’t worry. But one thing did disappoint me, one of my friends, Pete, messaged me three
15 Oct 21 – Captain Kirk
15 Oct 21 – Captain Kirk Hi Everyone, Captain Kirk has gone into space and I can’t tell you how happy that makes me feel, so much so that I did this almost before he’d landed. Getting blasted into space
8 Oct 21 – Bouncer
8 Oct 21 – Bouncer Hi Everyone, Last Saturday I decided to have a go at being a bouncer.Well, it was sort of forced upon me because the real bouncer didn’t turn up to our daughter’s 18th birthday party at the Rugby Club, and
1 Oct 21 – Monopoly
Monopoly I don’t know whether you know this but I’m a World Monopoly Champion. When I say World, I’m using it in the American way, and it doesn’t really mean the whole world, as in the global entity where we all live, it
24 Sept 21 – The Psychic
24 Sept 21 – The Psychic Hi Everyone, Once upon a time I worked at the local factory, and I had the pleasure of working with Bezel, a genuine psychic. That’s Bezel standing in front of a strange straggly looking
The Waterpark
The Waterpark In the days when people wore speedos proudly and my gut didn’t do this when I sat down Something bad happened. By the way, I don’t normally sit with my arms like that, because that would be strange.
10 Sept 21 – The Beard
10 Sept 21 – The Beard Hi Everyone, In lockdown, I decided to do what every other man decided to do and see what type of beard I could actually grow. Diane isn’t a big fan, but this is what
Chased by Hounds
Chased by Hounds A while ago I was out on my bike enjoying the lovely Cumbrian countryside, here I am: No, sorry, wrong sketch I’d just safely negotiated a Strava section called ‘Chased by hounds’ which was very well named
Alone in The Universe
On our way back from The Peak District the other week, we stopped off at Jodrell Bank and it made me feel lonely. I know, didums. But you will too, when I tell you this simple fact. We are alone.
20 Aug 21 – Toby Maguire
20 Aug 21 – Toby Maguire Hi Everyone, This week I thought a lot about Toby Maguire while I was on my elliptical trainer. Notice how I put some marks on that sketch to imply some sort of speedy movement,
13 Aug 21 – Getting Organized
13 Aug 21 – Getting Organized Hi Everyone, After the chaos of our holidays last week, I thought, let’s get organized. As usual, I can best describe my vision of the future with a quick skwiggle. So I read ‘Getting
6 Aug 21 – The Peak District
6 Aug 21 – The Peak District Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week. I’m on holiday in the Peak District this week and, if you’re a regular email opener, you’ll probably know I’ve been doing a lot of
30 July 21 – Fatty
30 July 21 – Fatty Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week. I tried on my ‘good’ going-out jeans the other day. And something bad happened. I haven’t tried them on for about a year, because I’ve been living
23 July 21 – Outbreak
23 July 21 – Outbreak Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week. Not such a brilliant week over here at Skwiggles. We’ve had an outbreak. Here’s a quick sketch of my family right now. If you look carefully, you may
16 July 21 – New Starter
16 July 21 – New Starter Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week I’ve got an important announcement to make this week, so I’m going to big this one up with the help of a terrible drawing of Dermot O’Leary,
9 July 21 – Live till you’re 1000
9 July 21 – Live till you’re 1000 Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week It was my birthday this week. Thanks, I know, 55, you wouldn’t believe it would you. I don’t look a day over… okay let’s
2 July 21 – New Puppy
2 July 21 – New Puppy Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week This week, if you emailed me, I may have replied at strange times of the day and it may not have made sense. That’s because I
I Disfigured My Boss
I Disfigured My Boss This post comes with a warning – saving the environment can be dangerous. Many years ago, before I started Skwiggles, I worked at the local factory. As far as I could tell, my job was to
18 June 21 – Helvellyn
Helvellyn Was anyone in Liverpool city centre last Saturday morning? Answer: no there wasn’t? Do you know why, because you were all at Lake District National Park Car Park in Glenridding at 8.25 am. My idea was to have a
11 June 21 – $15,000 Dollar Baby
11 June 21 – $15,000 Dollar Baby We lived in the USA for a while, and when we were out there I must’ve got my wife drunk on old yella, rattlesnake moonshine, or some other American drink, and one thing
4 June 21 – Public Information Films
4 June 21 – Public Information Films Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week This week I accidentally made a discovery. I was talking about the Smash advert with a few friends at the weekend. Yes, that’s the level of our
A Night in the Hospital
A Night in the Hospital A few years ago, I was in the garden failing to light a BBQ, as well as simultaneously being a terrible parent – who said men couldn’t multitask? The Easi-Light BBQ was at the tense, dormant, unlightable
Emergency Services
Emergency Services You wouldn’t think a simple phone call to John Lewis, wondering where my 2L Kilner Cliptop glass jars had got to, would lead to the police knocking on my door 15 minutes later. But that’s what happened. A very nice John
7 May 21 – Is that your Dad?
7 May 21 – Is that your Dad? Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week. For this email please go to Spotify and search for incredibly sad violin music or, perhaps, that music Simon Bates used to play for Our
30 April 21 – Stopping Traffic
30 April 21 – Stopping Traffic Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week.I’ve talked about my dog, Lizzi, a few times on this email, but this I considered to be a new low. Don’t read on if you’re squeamish. But,
23 April 21 – The Shower
23 April 21 – The Shower Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week. This week I have to speak out about a serious issue. This:What’s all that stuff? You’ll notice, in the right corner, my cold tar and coconuty Alberto Balsam,
16 April 21 – The Infinite Monkey Cage
16 April 21 – The Infinite Monkey Cage Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another good week. I’m still listening to podcasts in the vain hope of suddenly becoming clever. This week I listened to the Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian
9 April 21 – Family Walk
9 April 21 – Family Walk Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another good week. The highlight of my week this week was a nice walk with the family. ‘NOT UP A STUPID MOUNTAIN’ teenagers shouted from the landing. Sensing agitation at
2 April 2021 – Wild Camping
2 April 2021 – Wild Camping Hope you’re having a good week. Now that we have a tiny bit of freedom, I remember last summer, the last time we briefly had some, I persuaded the family to go wild camping
Humphrey
Humphrey I need to tell you about this little creature. I’ve really tried hard to make him look cute, but he wasn’t. His name was Humphrey (thanks Betty G Birney and your Humphrey the Hamster books). This was a couple of
19 March 21 – Rafting 2
19 March 21 – Rafting 2 Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having a good week. Firstly an apology. I really hope the tension of leaving you with that cliffhanger last week hasn’t kept you awake all week. Very sorry about that. Here’s a
12 March 21 – Rafting 1
12 March 21 – Rafting 1 Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having a good week. I was on the phone to my best bud the other day, reminiscing about this incident several years/decades ago. We found ourselves in a hotdog in
5 March 21- Puns
5 March 21 – Puns Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having a good week. I was relaxing the other day, sitting in my favourite chair with a cup of tea pouring over the newspapers. And I thought to myself, what am
26 Feb 21 – Mindfulness
26 Feb 21 – Mindfulness Hi Everyone, Hope you are well and moving swiftly up the vaccination list. Don’t worry if not though, because you know that Mindfulness thing that everyone’s doing, I was told that could help you stay
19 Feb 21 – Slowing down time
19 Feb 21 – Slowing down time Hi Everyone, Hope you are well. This week, so I could sound clever, I’ve started listening to podcasts while I’m skwiggling. Everyone is doing them now because the celebs have got no work
12 Feb 21 – Back in the day
12 Feb 21 – Back in the day Hi Everyone, Another week ticked off. And another week down memory lane for me. I’ve been digging into my cartoon archives again and came across this The good old days of underage
5 Feb 21 – Clint Eastwood
5 Feb 21 – Clint Eastwood Hi Everyone Hope you are all well and sorry to everyone who’s ordered this week. I’ve had a few delays because I’m outsourcing the printing and there were some teething problems. But it’s all
29 Jan 21 – Lizzi
29 Jan 21 – Lizzi Hi Everyone, Another week over with. I know everyone’s struggling with lockdown, but no one more so than our dog. This is a quick sketch of her outside our house just setting off on our usual walk
22 Jan 21 – Bobby-dazzler
22 Jan 21 – Bobby-dazzler Hi Everyone, Hope you’re all keeping well and avoiding floods as well as covid as well as David Dickinson. I always think no matter what’s happening it’s important to avoid David Dickinson.Another lockdown week, in
1 Jan 21 – Happy New Year
1 Jan 21 – Happy New Year Happy New Year Everyone, Hope you are still well and ‘enjoying’ your Christmas break. I think ‘enjoying’ should always be in quotation marks to imply irony or sarcasm, because obviously ‘enjoyment’ (which should