I’m taking a few liberties with the geography of Alexandra Park, the gardens this set of strips is set in. It has a river running through the middle of it, a bandstand, ponds and lakes, tennis courts, a miniature railway, a bowling green, several events fields which get used for open air theatre, music festivals, and fetes, nature reserves, a waterfall, a chalybeate spring, a bandstand and a cafe, but no golf course. Hastings isn’t really a full-sized golf sort of town – we specialise in miniature golf instead. In fact, the World Crazy Golf Championships take place on the seafront every October.
Tag / Golf
Scrawlix
Scrawlixes are those symbols you see coming from off frame in the last panel, showing that there is some swearing going on but keeping everything nice and family-friendly for GoComics.
Once again, apologies for running so late with the blog – I’m concentrating on keeping the cartoon itself up to date, but find it’s usually past midnight on the morning day the strip goes up before I’m finished, so the blog tends to be a bit of an afterthought now.
Full disclosure, I’ve been diagnosed with diabetes and it means that sometimes I have days when I feel really fatigued. I’m not able to work into the night like I used to be able to. It’s being managed with tablets and dietary changes, and I’m feeling a lot better than I used to, but every now and again I eat something with some hidden sugar in it and that’s that for that night. Whatever happens, the strip will continue to appear on GoComics every Monday, Wednesday and Friday even if the blog goes quiet for a week or two at a time.