oh yes, the highlighters came out for this one

oh yes, the highlighters came out for this one.

what else am i expected to do when excel freezes-up on you, and stops your computer responding to your keystrokes, mouse gestures and threats of violence ?

listen, stop bleating on about my bloody virtual memory running out and run my sodding macro, will you ???

so anyway, due to popular demand we have the return of the 'startled opera singer' (may 2nd's post)

dunno, sorry, can't help you !

dunno, sorry, can't help you !

if i remember rightly this started as something like the great inventor (mel brooks') character in 'robots'; then it seemed important to have a little ridged neck, finished-off with a pair of little bats wings and some antennae.

hey, i've never maintained that there be any logic to these things !

all in all not so great, although the cross-hatching did keep me amused for a little while.

one of the x-men !

one of the x-men !

son of meeting doodler strikes with this superb comic book character.

after we'd reviewed my handywork the other evening he swiped my 100 page bound copy of the presentation and started to produce his own stuff.

good lad, daddy's proud of you !

whatever you do, don't look up...

whatever you do, don't look up...

i do like this one, again it's from the 3hour session the other day.

i always reach a point, during one of these long meetings, when i start to wonder 'do they all think i'm furiously busy taking notes from this meeting, or do they realise i'm just doodling away?'

the former lends me the cloak of intelligence, rigour and conscientiousness; the latter reveals me for the scribbling buffoon that i truly am.

i like this one, though. tentacles again, a bit of a recurring theme for me of late.

look out, a giant hamster!

look out, a giant hamster!

this is the first hamster to appear in my margins; inspired - no doubt - by little j's mini hamster 'scratchy'.

this doodle is one of several produced the other day, during a 3 hour meeting to review, challenge & discuss the hundred or so page document that they're scribbled on.

more will follow...

mountaineers abound !

mountaineers abound !

yes, there are a few things happening here, we appear to have some silhouetted mountaineers scaling the east face of a summary table of benefits, whilst a generic office-worker appears to be confused by something (maybe what he's seen through the wall of his office ?)

and we also have the first appearance of a 'super-flasher' accosting someone as they descend a staircase.

oh yes, it was a meeting that was blissfully free of anything either useful or conclusive for those present.

i enjoyed myself, though; that has to count for something!

spacesquid again ?

spacesquid again ?

well, i suppose that this is familiar territory; which is probably telling people an awful lot more about my inner thoughts than i'd like them to know.

i put it all down to the space-battle i had with a tentacled alien when i was a child; such formative events in your life clearly have a lasting influence on you as you grow up.

either that, or the slightly pointless meeting that i attended the other day - full of expensive words, telling us the blindingly obvious.

a boat ?

a boat ? not sure why, could've been dreaming of escape routes from the dull, lecture theater-based, meeting i was attending.

once more unto the breach

once more unto the breach dear friends, once more... sorry it's been so long since i've posted; i'm afraid that i've found myself doing something that i'm not particularly proud of. i know i'm amongst friends, and that you won't judge me... i'm afraid that, of late, i've found myself working between the hours of 9 and 5 every day, with little or no time spent gazing into the middle distance during tedious meetings, scratching away with a 3rd-rate office biro.

...however, i'm going to try my best to get back on the slacking horse; so here we go

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

OK, so I'll try to post in 2008.

...promise !

...watch this space

a two day conference looms. watch this space !

plastercene monster battle

plastercene monster battle

..the three-legged alien was a plastercene figure that j and i collaborated on at the weekend.

and so it appears in a monday-morning doodle.

a space battle

a space battle.

it was a long duuuuuull meeting

another spacewalk

another spacewalk

this is one of MANY little doodles, from yesterday's two and a half hour meeting.

my favourite one, i should add - from probably an hour and a half or so into the proceedings.

obviously, by this point, i'd said my various pieces and the mind was starting to wander.

a circus strongman

a circus strongman

i guess that what we're missing here is a handlebar moustache, and some form of cartoon dumbell.