Off with your head

I had hoped that the website would be ready this weekend and I could be out pickling myself from the inside --- out, with the rest of the country. Alas it is not, as I keep drawing things that need painting and the perfectionist monster has reared it's ugly head and may have had a tantrum.....

I guess that is one of many perils when you are setting up your own business and are not only producing the product, but also doing all the marketing, advertising and research yourself. Unfortunately you can't fire yourself or give yourself a raise, well I think you can give yourself a raise, but you have to earn money first.

In the meantime The Grumpus has been reminiscing about the last time there were lots of blue blooded creatures about and it wasn't for a wedding. Something tells me that The Grumpus is not a fan of weddings or grossly affluent people.

Happy Birthday to the Jempot, the only thing worth celebrating today.

George, Grumpus, Barbara and The Egg

Meet Barbara, she is one of England's last dragons

There she was, just minding her own business, when a pesky bee decides to pick an argument with her! How bloody rude. Normally a dragon like Barbara would have just cremated the flying pest, but her fire glands were swollen, due to hay fever.

Unbeknown to Barbara, a pesky little man named George, was sneaking up on her, ready to make his name in the dragon killing world.....

With a fatal stab to heart and wallop of his axe, poor Barbara lost her head and that pesky little chancer would hence be known as Saint George the patron saint of England.

Meanwhile lurking in a cave, The Grumpus had found a rather large egg and was contemplating a mahoosive omelet for his tea.

So yet again, poor Grumpus misses out on Sainthood and will this be the last we hear about that mysterious large egg?

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Happy Easter minions!

Business news: 

I have created a series of cartoons to illustrate various parts of the new website, so as soon as they are painted, uploaded and titivated, I should only be a few days away from the site going live!

Animal mad aunt and stuff

Well I was going to do a "Grumpus visits his Mother" post, a nod to it being Mother's day in the UK(tomorrow), but he doesn't like her and refused to cooperate. Now some people would assume that that was just a flimsy excuse about not being prepared and time catching up with me, but we know better, right? Anyhoo I can always backtrack and make him visit his mom for the US version of Mother's day.

So the question still remains... WTFWGGN?

The creation of a doodle for my Aunt's birthday.

News:

Soon I will be opening for doodle business, it has been in the works for a quite a while now! I just wanted to mention it here and put the feelers out, as I will be wanting opinions from the people that have been a great support to me (you lot). Well not just a support, this blog is the thing that inspired me to pick up a pencil again. So I will be writing more about this when I am at the next stage, which will probably be the webiste launch and facebook page shenanigans. When I have created more examples and the website is done, I think that will allow me to explain what type of doodliness I will be offering. I am excited/nauseous/excited about it all and have been lucky with the help that I am getting to set things up. It is a long process from market research to marketing to selling and more. As I take a giant leap into the unknown (for me), it is nice that I will always have this place to brain vomit on.

Random thoughts:

Waffles (potato) and tomato sauce, has evolved into Brie and fiery hot chutney on crackers.Just a thought that popped into my head, as I was munching on the crackers. Brie use to be a horrid cheese that my parents loved, now I think it's awesome. Actually the highlight of my night was eating that brie and crackers with a mug of hot chocolate. What is happening to me!