Chapter 1- The Neighbours Norman thinks licking my face while I bend down to tie my laces will speed things up, and he’s right. I grab his lead, wipe the saliva out of my eyeball and we’re off out the
Best Guitarists Update – 1 Nov 2024
Since we’ve been doing this a few months now, I thought I’d crunch some numbers and give you an update on the figures and see if you agree. Here’s the rankings so far, click on the names for more info
Top Ten Second Best Bruce Springsteen Songs
I thought this week we could share some of our favourite second-best Bruce Springsteen songs and see which ones are the most popular and make the Top Ten. The voting is closed now, thanks for taking part. The results are
A Walk with Chris Bonington
I was walking with Norman and I saw a gentleman walking ahead of me and I thought to myself: ‘It’s Chris Bonington.’ Look: This wasn’t a random thought, like the time I went swimming with a bald guy and insisted
Norman’s Walk – July 24
We had to rush out early this morning, because Norman was invited to the unveiling of a new plaque just by the river on the new path into town. As the plaque was being unveiled, we heard some booing in
Things I want to believe – Forests can think
Things I want to believe – Forests can think Trees can communicate with each other, we all know that. FYI that sketch is stupid because they haven’t got a larynx nor a means to blow air across it, have they,
30 June 2023 – Man in the Woods
I was walking through the woods this week and I saw a man doing something in the undergrowth. Norman ran to investigate this strange happening. So I shouted for him ‘Norman.’ The man looked round. Notice, it was the man who
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
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
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
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