Wednesday 25 August 2021

Pious and Mole's misadventure in Rattown

 Pious and Mole's misadventure in Rattown

After over a decade on the backburner. Pious and Mole's misadventure in Rattown is now available as a webcomic.

Previously available in a very limited print given away at the Festival of the Photocopier in Melbourne way back in 2007. It is now available to view free and uncensored.

Starring the immoral Rats from Rat Tales created by my brother Joe for Wombat Comicz in the early 1980s it tells the story of a land where older, famous and more beloved illustrated characters live in alternate worlds but sometimes things slip through the cracks.



Sunday 8 August 2021

My Hobbit hole Part 3

 My Hobbit hole Part 3

Every now and again I like to build something or do home repairs. What else is a shed full of tools for? We have a small dog, a Cavoodle named Gracie, Who, I joking refer to as my favourite child.



Gracie has a big heart and since we live on a corner there is a lot of property to protect. There is nothing Gracie likes to do more than anything (besides tummy tickles) is to bark angrily at passers-by who dare walk on the other side of the fence. One of Gracie’s problem is that unfortunately for her, we have a high fence that surrounds the property and she is so small she can’t see what or who it is, not that matters, she’s happy to tell them that she’s on her side and they better not come over and try anything.

This can be annoying, but it’s part of her personality and over time you get used to it and in my case, I started to feel a bit sorry for my poor pooch.

So I thought I would remedy the situation. Using a door from an old clothes dryer I found on hard rubbish, I cut a hole in the fence approximately at Gracie’s height. I thought the domed glass would help her look beyond the fence and protect her from larger dogs. This didn’t work as the glass gave a distorted view to the sides and Gracie wouldn’t use it.

So, I resorted to my default position when making things in the garden, I made a Hobbit hole.

I removed the dryer domed door and replaced it with some steel mesh and then spruced up the surrounds to recreate Bilbo’s hangout. I added a lamp and some flowers and made it all pretty.

Gracie still won’t use it.

The OTHER parts of the Hobbit Saga

Hobbits on the Move

My Hobbit House Adventure

Sight seeing in Middle Earth

Sunday 1 August 2021

Adventures in Quilting

 Adventures in Quilting


I wrote this a few years ago through frustration when I felt my home was being taken over by my wife's quilting hobby. I won't call it an obsession because she has been doing it for half her life and is never in a hurry to complete anything. She just leaves wherever and get backs to her when the mood suits.
Since this piece, kids have moved out and we have repainted, re-carpeted, and got new furniture and she even has a new workroom.
But the problem remains the same.