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Well, I’ve survived the injection, but only just…
I went into the surgery and the doctor laid me face down on the bed before giving me a little anaesthetic in the lower back. With a kindly, “This might hurt a little,” he started to give me the epidural injection.
Well, the pain was excruciating. For the next […]

So, the back is getting no better.
I’m still here on the floor, swimming in pain killers thankful for a wireless network so I can still do a little bit of web work and the like. Sitting down is impossible, so drawing is all but out.
I saw my doctor on Wednesday morning, who then pulled some […]

I’d love to be able to draw caricatures.
But honestly, I suck at it.
My caricatures only resemble the subject if I draw the person from behind, at great distance, in the dark…
But Tom Richmond is brilliant at it. Once again graciously shared his knowledge with a series on ‘How to Draw Caricatures’ over at his Mad […]

So, a few days after I returned from my beach holiday, my wife had returned to work and I was dropping my eldest at kindergarten for the afternoon.
The clouds were looking threatening, so despite it only being a five minute walk, we jumped in the car and drove up the road.
As we pulled up out […]