Ptui

Don't argue with Gnuckles

As Morrissey once said, some Gnomes are bigger than others.

Gnome Tipping

I'm not a garden gnome fan. If you're going to go to the bother of making your garden beautiful why ruin it with a cheap imported plastic gnome from Poundland?

Gnome tipping is like cow tipping, only much easier to do.

P. U.

I assure you, it's not just dogs that do this.

I say wysteria, you say wisteria

The Chelsea Flower Show is happening this week, so I thought I'd use it as the peg to hang the next batch of cartoons from.

I like a nice garden but I wouldn't know a hollyhock from a sweet pea - whenever we're in the park and Linda asks me what a particular flower is, I can only answer 'That's a plant'. If pressed I can narrow it down to 'a blue one' or 'a red one'.

Wysteria can be spelled 'Wysteria', 'Wisteria' or even 'wistaria', but I'm sticking with the first one, because I'm the kind of guy who spells 'Colour' with a U.

The power of carrots

Sometimes that happiness just comes bursting through, like an unwelcome ray of sunshine on an otherwise perfect rainy day.

Crossed eyes

I have no pictures of the real Smith and Jones, who used to live in the house next door to me when I was a kid, but they were both cross eyed pedigree Siamese cats.

This is very much what the real Smith looked like - he had that oriental look and a pair of bright blue, subtly off-beam eyes...

...While this is how I remember Jones. Rather than the pale chocolate point I depict her as in the cartoon, she was actually a seal tabby point. Having to draw in those complicated tabby markings would have meant she would have lost clarity around the face once the cartoons were reduced to 600 dpi wide as GoGomics require.