It's about time

My son just slipped a whoopee cushion onto my chair as I was about to sit down, I've never been more proud. I've been pretty busy lately but I'm going to post some new work pics here in a few days, maybe some images from my sketch book too.

Everyones a critic.

"Uurghhh this isn't very tasty". My son after the first mouth full of the pasta, pesto and pine nuts I'd made for tea.

why is it that those who drive school busses feel the need to set their route number displays to 666? they can't all be satanists can they? is this just a south wales thing or do they do this further afield? the pic on this post is a portrait i made using pearler beads, it something i've wanted to do for ages but never got round to it. can you guess who it is?

brain farts

i've spent a great deal of time over the last few years trying to teach my children that it's really dangerous to put money in their mouths. so i must have been having some kind of brain fart when i bought my son a bag of chocolate coins yesterday.

julie and myself took our two children to a play area in cardiff the other day. we hadn't visited this one before so it was quite exciting having been to most of them in our area many times over. we got inside and dan said to me,
"dad lets play shops"
"ok" and with that he ran into a wooden shed thign they had on one side of the hall. i sat down outside the shed and said
"good afternoon i'd like a hot dog please"
"i dont sell hot dogs"
"oh in that case i'd like some peas please"
"i dont sell peas"
"could i have some ice cream then?"
"no i don't sell ice cream"
"well what do you sell in this shop"
"pancakes"
"i'd like a pancake then please" he banged a wooden spoon against the wall a couple of times and handed me a plastic frying pan. after finishing the imaginary pancake i said,
"that was lovely could i have another please?" sighing deeply he replied
"no. i'm closed now" and then he walked out of the shed slaming the door.

Butter

"I like you dad" my son said as he wiped a hand full of butter into my jeans.

herbert thompson mural

i finished this project last friday (9th of july 2010), only spent four days in the school. the project went so smoothly i thought something was bound to go wrong but it didn't. i loved every minute of this project and i'm really pleased with how it turned out. all the children involved really got stuck in.