Mistaken identity?

While at the check out in tesco today I saw an old guy approaching an elderly lady who was sitting on a bench. She had her head turned away from him so when he shouted "a ha" and grabbed her thigh she was more than a little shocked. She turned to face him and he said "oh I am sorry I thought you where someone else".

community artwork update

 this mural was designed and produced by the pupils of trelai primary working with a group pupils from glyn derw comprehensive. each board is 2ft x 4ft. they where designed to be displayed separately or togther as shown.

 i worked with the glyn derw parents group to design and produce some painted elements to brighten up their community room.

this piece was designed and produced by the pupils of michaelston community college working with a group of gcse pupils from michaelston community college.
all these projects where started in janruary of this year and finished at the end of march which is why it's been so quite on my blog. while your here why not cast your eyes over some of my friends blogs.
first is a marie or as i like to call her 'the main dane' i used to work with marie at arts factory, she's a super talented graphic designer/photographer, she's at http://www.mariepalbom.wordpress.com/. lots of cool stuff to look at there.
second we've got sara, sara used to be one of my neighbours in cardiff. she's writing a great blog but also makes really good short films (one of which i still get nightmares about) find her at http://www.20000herz.blogspot.com/ 
third theres nathan, me and nathan lived together while we where in college in llanelli, we had some great times. funny to think all that stuff happened in the ninties, what it's called now the 'teenies'? anyway he doing some sharp/smooth artwork at http://www.antcreations.blogspot.com/
last but by no means least i'd like ot introduce you to jon, jon's interests are so much like mine it's actually frightning. his work is fantastic, he's at http://www.wonkydrawings.tumblr.com/ he is quite simply kick ass,
that's about it.

Yummy

My daughter had her first go at drinking out of a lid-less cup this afternoon to varying degrees of success. While she did manage to drink at least half of the water she dropped feta cheese into what was left creating what I'm now calling 'cheese water' which she promptly drank.

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.

tube floats, caerphilly and a troubled individual

me and my son went swiming on sunday morning to our local pool. i'd taken his tube float along as per usual. i'd previously written dans name on both ends of the tube to avoid any tube ownershop related incidents. at the end of our session i realised that our tube had floated away and some other father and son where using it.
"hello" i said "sorry to interupt but thats my sons tube, we're getting out of the pool now so we need it back" i explained.
"huh" the father replied.
"it's my sons tube" i repeated, "if you look at either end you'll see his name".
"oh sorry, i thought daniel was the tubes name".

i've been working in the ely of cardiff area over the last two weeks where i heard the following two lines which cracked me up.
"it's alright but it isn't caerphilly" and my personal favourite
"yeah he's great. till the pills wear off and he turns into a c**t.
i've included a pic of a mural i just finished last week with a gambian theme for the grand avenue times.

i was moisturiing my son yesterday after his bath when he started to examine his "frank and beans",
"i like my willy, i use it to pee don't i, i'm going to pee all day tomorrow". he said.

coffee sqaure mural

here's a pic of mural i finished a few weeks ago for your viewing pleaseure, not much more to say than that really.

ringland snakes and ladders patio

I finished the project i've been working on in ringland today. my clients (ringland communities first) are really happy with the project and have two other projects in the pipe line they'd like me to work on. i was dissapointed that the council couldn't pull their finger out and pressure wash and weed the patio area before we started painting as was aggreed but the young people envolved enjoyed it so alls well that ends well i suppose. there was talk of a snakes and ladders tournament to celebrate the completion of the project so i'll keep you all posted on how that turns out.

shuvit heelflip

ok, so i've been skateboarding for a good few weeks now and i'm still loving it. so much so in fact i've been getting up at six in the morning on the weekend to skate at aberdare skate park. i've posted a video clip i recorded on bank holiday monday. it's just me practicing olies nothing too "ill" or "sick" as us skaters often say. enjoy all.

3/4 length

as i've mentioned in a previous post i've been doing a spot of freelance recently. Last week i was working with a group of young people when suddenly one of them jumped up and shouted
"f*****g c**t, i've got paint on my mothers f*****g jeans" everybody stopped work in shock.
"your wearing your mothers f****g jeans?" another asked
"yeah, but their f****g 3/4 length". he replied
"oh well thats fair enough".

slander

i've just come back from the park in beddau. i took the kids out for the morning to give the wife a much needed rest (and check out the skate park which is next door). it's not much of a play park really most of the play equipment is either broken or has random pieces of graffiti scrawled over it, my favourite is "shaun is bestial". dan always has a good time there running jumping and avoiding pieces of broken glass while aimee either sleeps or looks on nonplussed. as we where walking home chatting about lunch and black birds dan turned and to my absolute horror had blood all over his face and hands. in cleaning it off i realised that it was just a normal nose bleed and nothing to worry about. dan soon forgot about his itchy nose and was asking to have easter eggs for lunch while watching cbeebies. when we got home i mentioned to julie about the nose bleed when dan pipes up with,
"i fell over, i fell over on the road and bumped my head".

thanks a bunch dan.

"I want to see the boats, why can't I see the boats, I never see the boats". My son said as we where standing on Tenby harbour. Another of my favourite lines is " I love milk, I love bananas, I don't like banana milkshake".

busy, busy, busy.

It's all happening here, as well as my responsibilities as a father and husband I've been co-ordinating a project in Ringland (the housing estate in Newport and not a male brothel), painting a mural type thing for the "Coffee Square" in Beddau (if any ones passing call in and take a look, let me know what you think), I've also got the second draft of my final piece of course work to hand in for my evening class, my job search commitments, all this and I'm still managing to fit in nine hours of t.v. a day.

My daughter appears to be some kind of nappy filling Jedi. Don't get me wrong I'm no stranger to baby poo. My son is no amateur in that department. Aimee however is in a whole other league, she can squirt it up the front, down either leg or both legs at the same time. I can only remember Dan getting poo in his hair a couple of times at the most. Aimee's covered from toes to scalp twice a day at the very least.