Mike Smith (Illustrator)

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July 24, 2013 – 8:21 am

By Mike | Tagged bum-bum thing, child, childish, daddy, diary, ears, heart, mike, mummy caz, son, started it, stethoscope | Comments Off

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July 18, 2013 – 7:32 am

By Mike | Tagged agents of entropy, boys, brush, crash, diary, major meltdown, messy, mike, neat, octopants, outside, sons, sweeping, tidy | Comments (2)

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July 16, 2013 – 10:50 am

By Mike | Tagged childhood memory, cry, diary, endoscopy, fart, gas, holes, laugh, mike, mum, purge, rectal exam, rubber gloves, sigmoid, tears doctors | Comments Off

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July 12, 2013 – 10:43 am

By Mike | Tagged awful, change, childhood, diary, enema, hospital, memory, mike, nurse, stomach problem, suppository, toilet | Comments Off

You wait ages for a bus…

July 7, 2013 – 9:15 am

The Hundred Decker Bus is currently on its second printing, which is a good thing. What’s not so good is that many sellers are reporting the paperback out of stock. So I have listed on the right some other places to try. Hopefully you’ll have a nearby local bookshop (here is a good place to [...]

By Mike | Tagged picture book, update | Comments (1)

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July 1, 2013 – 1:21 pm

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June 27, 2013 – 11:11 am

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June 20, 2013 – 11:40 pm

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June 15, 2013 – 9:42 am

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June 6, 2013 – 8:56 am

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June 3, 2013 – 9:58 am

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May 24, 2013 – 1:22 pm

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