Now that I'm doing Substack properly it seems a little odd - somehow disloyal - to essentially be blogging regularly again after all th...

It would be a shame to let this ancient, creaky, spam-riddled throwback of a blog die off completely just because I'm experimenting with...

Do you happen to remember I said last year I was writing a murder mystery puzzle in the form of a box of postcards ? Well... I've writte...

  1) Order the fish in a restaurant on a Monday. It'll be three days old.  2) Base-jumping. He just doesn't see the appeal. 3) Cheat...

 Alt text: poire à la éléphant

Alt text: a nautical bear, in complacent mood. Alt text: the same bear, allowing the strain of command to get to her a little. Three thousan...

 There have been monster sightings in our neighbourhood lately, and I occasionally moonlight as a sort of monster-hunter’s sketch artist, ta...

Alt Text: Two dog walkers, walking two dogs. (It looks as if I've whimsically made it look like one of the dogs is interested in a b...

Alt Text. Two elephants, conferring.

Alt text. A lady peering round in a car window. She seems cross, but I think she's just checking to see if there's anything coming...

Alt text: A stegasaurus standing on its head. A commission.

Alt Text: In a word: Penguins.

Alt Text. A blue man with a long neck appears sceptical about something.

Alt text: a cake, of sorts. Decorated, in a sense, to look like an elephant. Definitely.

Alt text: a stylish woman in a coat, who is emphatically neither an elephant nor a bear. Not everyone is.

  Alt text - two friends go looking for an adventure, and a sun rises.

 The Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, on a tour of the United States, passed through Utah, and decided to drop in on Brigham Young. It d...

- Scarper; British slang for 'run away'. From Scapa Flow - Go.  - Grass; as in informant. From Grasshopper - copper (and from there ...

I briefly interrupt this parade of elephants and bears (not usually a wise thing to do) to bring you news of a new project of mine.  It'...

 ALT TEXT: Daddy Bear and Baby Bear in bath. Baby Bear did big jump, and splashing, splashing. Such, at least, was the commission. 

ALT TEXT: It’s simply a picture of an actual bear.

ALT TEXT: A cardboard box, on which is drawn a family of hippos gazing in delight at a shower of cupcakes falling towards them like manna. T...

 First, an apology. It has been brought to my attention that I have been irritatingly coy about the identity of my patron for this series of...

ALT TEXT: A quick scribbly biro bear head. I did a ‘proper’ version of this to put up here, with lots more pen-strokes and anatomy and shado...

  ALT TEXT: The head of a bear, figured in every artist's medium of choice: yellow Playdoh. And looking considerably more apprehensive t...

  ALT TEXT: A drawing of an elephant, seen from the front. This view of an elephant is less favoured by my patron, but he will allow it occa...

ALT TEXT: A rough guide to telling which kind of bear your bear is, so long as it’s one of two particular kinds, and also that you have an e...

  ALT TEXT: A drawing of a cheerful white bear. They seem more trustworthy than Thursday's bear, but maybe that's just because they ...

ALT TEXT: One of the many, many one to two minute thumbnail sketches I have found myself called upon to make this year of the comedy double ...

  ALT TEXT: It’s simply a picture of an actual elephant.