Scrumpy’s eyes have slowly been slipping down his face over the years, and while it’s been useful in making him look more downbeat it’s also been making him look less and less like a rabbit. I’ve moved his eyes back up again, and I’m much happier with him now. His eyes will continue to shift up and down his nose according to mood, but this should be their default position.
This is my first diabetic Easter. I miss Creme Eggs. However, it looks like I don’t really have that much to miss any more…
That’s the problem with subcontracting your work out – the people involved just don’t have the same involvement in making sure they do a good job. Ask anyone who has had to deal with a company that has subcontracted out its customer care to a call centre in Bangalore. Talktalk Broadband, I haven’t forgotten you, and I note that five years after I gave you up as a lost cause you’re still bottom of Which’s customer service tables.
This is the first and last time you get to see Nigel’s mum, once the mall opens the strip stays resolutely work-focused.
For the uninitiated, these are eggy soldiers. The soldiers are the toast strips which you dip them into the yolk of the soft-boiled egg. The very idea of a runny yolk seems to revolt Americans – Linda soft boils my eggs under protest – but trust me, they’re delicious. The image shows a soft-boiled goose egg; now that’s just showing off.
Regular reader, Scott the Badger, this is for you.
Let’s say thank you to whoever put that conveniently placed hillock there, which made the job of the reveal on the last three panels so much easier.
Also, thanks to the two badgers who were cavorting outside my study window on the night the controversial badger cull began. You wouldn’t believe they noise they make when they’re playing – there’s scuffling, there’s snorting, and best of all, there’s the cartoonish galloping sound their claws make on the concrete drive way when they’re chasing one another.
The badger cull isn’t happening around our parts, thank heavens – that’s a trial that’s happening in the west country. I have every sympathy with the farmers who are blaming the rising incidence of TB in cattle on the badger population, but I’m not sure shooting badgers is the answer. Maybe if cattle vaccines were a more sensible price it would be more economical to vaccinate the herds than hire badger shooting posses.