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December 20, 2011 – 2:56 pm

By Mike | Tagged aerial view, caz, conversation, countryside, design classic, diary, fire, garage, house, london underground diagram, map, mike, picture, roll, taste, wall | Comments Off

Edward Hopper and the Carrot Crunch

December 14, 2011 – 10:45 pm

A Tale of Greed, Financial Mismanagement and Rabbits This was a children’s book I wrote at the end of 2009, when the collapse of the banks was big news. It went on to win the Macmillan Prize for Children’s Book Illustration, but never saw the light of day as a published book, partly because it [...]

By Mike | Tagged book, ebook, publication, publish, sale | Comments (2)

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December 12, 2011 – 8:50 am

By Mike | Tagged book, characters, children's book, cold, colour, conversation, dave, diary, failure, fear, illustration, job, kill myself, mike, monologue, night, publisher, richard scarry, road, roughs, story, street, traffic light, try, walking, winter, worry, yes | Comments (5)

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December 5, 2011 – 8:18 am

By Mike | Tagged apologise, argument, bed, caz, cold, competition, complaining, diary, everything, flu, future, ill, mike, rubbish, sniff, sorry, wrong | Comments (4)

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November 24, 2011 – 11:38 pm

By Mike | Tagged adult, autumn, bed, bench, bite fingernails, check, child, chitty bang, daydream, diary, four, grown up, habits, job interview, kid, leaves, make up stories, memory, mike, mr men, nervous, nosey, playground, pleasure, qualitiies, role, running, seat, sit, smell books, still, toilet, trees, wasp, wondering, woods, young | Comments (5)

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November 21, 2011 – 1:16 pm

By Mike | Tagged airlock, apple day, baby, caz, chalk, cider, demijohn, diary, email, ferment, flies, freecycle, homemade, hope, malic acid, mike, pears, perry, ph, press, toilet, tree, waste of time, wine making | Comments (1)

Phoenix Nigh

November 18, 2011 – 2:48 pm

Forgive me for putting in a quick shout for a new weekly comic that’s coming in January: The Phoenix. Well, Issue 1 swoops in on January 7th but there’s a free special taster Issue Zero right now, via a promotional code to be found in Waitrose Weekend magazine. Marvellous reasons to get the comic: It’s [...]

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November 12, 2011 – 8:15 pm

By Mike | Tagged antarctic, busy, car, caz, chocolate, conversation, cry, diary, dot, house, mess, messy, mike, pregnant, rubbish, rush, son | Comments (3)

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November 3, 2011 – 8:22 am

By Mike | Tagged bomb, countryside, diary, dog, eddie, fields, float, helicopter, hill, inequality, jude, keep out, land, landscape, mansion, mike, pissing, poor, private, rich, sign, sun, sunset, walking | Comments (3)

Laos

October 31, 2011 – 9:53 pm

From 28th October to 5th November we crossed from Vietnam to Thailand via Laos, by bus. Places we stopped at: Buddhist monk-populated Savannakhet, and Pakse, from where we took a boat to a tiny village called Champasak on the Mekong river. This was a lovely place (probably my favourite of the whole trip) which was [...]

By Mike | Tagged painting, sketchbook, travel, watercolour | Comments (1)

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October 27, 2011 – 8:03 am

By Mike | Tagged baby, banana, brother, dave, diary, fairtrade, identity, mike, mirror, post-it note, postcard, reflection, self-aware, son, stamp, sticker | Comments (1)

Vietnam

October 25, 2011 – 1:42 pm

We spent a few days in Hanoi in the north. The original plan was to travel to Ho Chi Minh City in the south — it being the furthest point by rail that we could reach from London — but we realised we would then run out of time to get to Singapore. So we [...]

By Mike | Tagged drawing, pencil, sketch, train, travel, watercolour | Comments Off

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