Royal weddings. FA Cup Finals. Perhaps not the best day for the Hastleons to be putting on its Cabaret night, but that’s where I’ll be, having no real interest in either football or Harry and Megan.
Sandy is a Chelsea supporter because that’s the team I was told I supported when I was a kid, and they seem to have made it to the Finals tomorrow. They are the blue one and the other team is the red one.
And this one is a lot of story threads being joined together and becoming something else entirely. Obviously this is a left over from the Olympics, but it was also going to be used to herald a big change to the strip as well, which has now been postponed until after the millennial celebrations of Strip 1,000 on Monday.
Don’t worry, it’s not a big fundamental change like what has been happening to Girth over the past few weeks. Instead I’ll be making a popular occasional character a regular, something I’ve been working up to for a couple of years now…
All will be revelaed in a couple of weeks’ time…
Need I say more? To be fair I haven’t seen much England stuff around anywhere this year – the team’s performance in the World Cup was so abysmal that it’s been like an unspoken agreement between all Brits to never refer to it again. And with FIFA gradually drowning in sleaze and lots of European teams grumbling about the next two tournaments taking place in the obviously uncorrupt countries of Russia and Qatar, I can see the entire edifice of the World Cup crumbling to dust in the near future. Which is a good thing.
I own nothing with an England flag on it. That’s for footballists and UKIP supporters. I’m strictly a Union Jack man.
Wednesday’s strip may be late – as I write this the day before I fly off to spend time with Linda’s family in New Mexico I haven’t drawn the New Year’s Eve strip yet. You may end up with a photo of a strip taken with an iPod. Normal service will be resumed on 2 Jan – I’ll be back by that point.
If I don’t get to say it to you on Wednesday, have a happy new year, everyone!