Remember last Christmas’s John Lewis advert? This is the sequel.
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Wordsworth
Blossom
I can fly so much closer to the wire on a weekly schedule. I have a couple of months of scripts in hand but every now and then something pops up and jumps the queue. This week I spotted that the apple trees were blossoming and wanted to use them while they were still out. As I write this a gale is blowing outside, and the trees are rapidly shedding all their flowers.
Truth 2017
Social media for dogs
I’m reading Alan Bennett’s latest volume of diaries, and in one of his entries he talks about how each one of his plays seems to bud off of a speech that was in the previous one. Comics work in the same way. This is a separate flowering of an idea thrown away as the punchline in last Sunday’s strip.
Poo!
Box
Planet Earth II
We may need it.
Birds on a wire
Floaters
I suffer from these – I have done since I was a kid. Of course, they only really annoy you if you notice them, and then the trick is to forget they’re there again. I do that by looking at a complicated texture like a paisley shirt or a pub carpet – something swirly the floaters can get lost in. However, when I’m in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico visiting Linda’s folks the floaters come out with a vengeance. When driving there there’s nothing to look at except a bowl of sky and featureless land stretching out towards the distant horizon. A trip to Lubbock can have me scratching my eyes out.