Revenge

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It’s interesting how much information can be given just by changing the colour of a background. Here we are at the vets and it has its walls painted in that institutional medical green colour. Add in a few stainless steel bits of furniture and a table enamelled in an equally unflattering beige and voila, you have one vet’s office.

Cholmondeley was the best at causing chaos at the vets if he was left alone. He once jumped up onto the vet’s desk and managed to crash the surgery’s entire computer network with a few well aimed paw taps.

“Isn’t that Jones?…”

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Pardon me for decending to matters below the waist, but this is really important to cats. I have never seen an expression quite so affronted on a cat (and quite as funny either) as whenever the vet took the real Smudge’s temperature.

Of course, I don’t know why cats would gossip like that anyway. Surely they’ve all had to put up with thermometers up their bums!

Reaction

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Time to start playing catch-up on the blog again! Here the storyline takes a left turn into something completely different. Anyone who has had to take a reluctant cat to the vets will understand this…

Foom!

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…and we segue naturally into a completely different storyline over the next few weeks. Or should that be Swegway?

The skateboard awakens

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Oh no… Jones has a new form of transportation. It’s not a board, and it doesn’t hover – therefore it’s called a hoverboard.

Law

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Even though hoverboards have only popped up recently, they’re illegal in the UK thanks to a 180-year old law. The 1835 Highways Act states that people cannot use the footway to “lead or drive any horse, ass, sheep, mule, swine, or cattle or carriage of any description” which, sadly, includes hoverboards. I think they come under the heading of ‘carriage’, as they’re very unlikely to be considered to be livestock, except for VAT purposes.

Wait for it

smith-pilcher-936-160401This animation was drawn on the iPad in ProCreate, saved as layers, sent to my desktop Mac, imported in to Photoshop, coloured and turned into an animated .gif.

Creme egg

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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

Delivery

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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.

Welcome to March

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Congratulations, you got through February. You deserve this.

Judging by the comments I got for this strip, a lot of people needed their purr therapy.

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