Uncategorized – Blogshank - Mike Smith, Illustrator and Diary Blogger

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March 10, 2013 – 11:27 am

By Mike | Tagged cake, caz, diary, eating, greed, mike, second breakfast, sigh, table, tea, understand | Comments (1)

Just the other day the postman delivered advance copies of my children’s book, due to be published in May by Macmillan. Forgive me if I plug it a bit here as it’s very exciting and has been years in the making. In the next few weeks I’ll post some pictures from the book to get [...]

By Mike | Tagged book, photo, plug, published | Comments (7)

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February 25, 2013 – 12:51 pm

By Mike | Tagged book, busy, death stare, diary, dog, eddie, five minutes, knee, landowner, mike, patient, reading, resolute, shouting, shut up, talking, waiting, walk | Comments (2)

Out Now

February 18, 2013 – 9:00 pm

I’ve just designed this cover for a novel written by my brother. It’s a comedy about ‘football’s last taboo’ — a gay player who comes out — and quite timely given recent news. The book is available as an ebook from umpteen places or as a ‘proper’ book from Amazon. More information here.

By Mike | Tagged Anthony Camber, book cover, disunited, football, legs, paperback, pitch, shadow, socks, title, white line | Comments Off

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February 13, 2013 – 9:37 pm

By Mike | Tagged argument, blog, conversation, cookie, dave, diary, favour, garrotting, internet, iPhone, joke, kids, laugh, mike, notebook, pen, phones, sarcasm, self-control, snide comment, sofa | Comments Off

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February 6, 2013 – 9:42 am

By Mike | Tagged arm, back, banned, boxing gloves, children, clothes, death, diary, dungarees, front, garments, hanging, kids, kill, martial law, octopus, odd socks, poppers, punishment, state control | Comments (5)

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February 1, 2013 – 2:14 pm

By Mike | Tagged audience, boat, continental drift, diarist, diary, dungarees, internet, justification, kids, leave behind, meaningless waffle, mountain, six years, stocktake, thoughts, words, worries | Comments (17)

Being self-employed

January 29, 2013 – 9:42 am

The Guardian website recently requested some readers’ experiences of being self-employed. I sent them an offering which predictably they didn’t use, so I thought I’d post it here. Maybe they thought it was too trite. Anyway here is what the Guardian finally put up.