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Christmas cards
Sending out some of the home-made Christmas cards I painted ages ago (2014!) and have been keeping for no real reason to friends and family. They are mostly on the theme of cats distracting Father Christmas as we used to have two cats Shadow and Archimedes who would climb the Christmas tree and fight the […]
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Doomerism
I don’t know if maybe my more recent cartoons have been a bit doomerist (a term thrown around on twitter to people who say it’s too late to do anything about climate change). I’m not without hope when it comes to the future, and I certainly don’t want to hinder action on climate in any […]
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Staying out of the sky
I started reducing my flights in 2016 to only one per year and I’ve been completely flightfree since August 2018. It’s obviously been easier to stick to since the coronavirus pandemic, but I’m looking forward to staying out of the sky next year too and hopefully being able to go on a night train adventure […]
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Car(e)free
I’m still in the phase with my daughters that they believe everything I say, so when I tell them there will be no (private) cars when they grow up they think it’s true and not just something I really, really hope happens very soon.
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1+1=?
When the two of them argue they competitively wail to get my sympathy/attention until they reach a crescendo and have to be taken to different rooms to calm down.
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Birth story
My second daughter arrived 11 days early- luckily a couple of days after the Tour de France cycling competition passed near our house otherwise with all the road closures I’m not sure how we would have made it to the hospital! I had an epidural for my second labour whereas I had a natural birth […]
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