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
I Disfigured My Boss
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
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