First post, and little bit about me.........

........I have always drawn pictures.  When I was a little boy I drew on any bit of paper I could find.  I remember that there was a paper shortage (it was the seventies, there was always a shortage of something...) and my brother told me I was responsible. Then I remember watching 'Blue Peter' (john Noakes/Peter Purvis era) and there was some young lad who drew cartoons.  They were so simple, but effective, that I thought "I could do that"..... so I started drawing cartoons. I used to draw whole comic books (but never showed them to anyone).  At school I would draw cartoons to amuse my mates, and swap them for badges and such. I got a couple of my cartoons published in comics and magazines, but I never actually thought that people might actually make money (or even a living out of drawing funny pictures). So I never really stuck at drawing and gradually stopped doing any regular drawing......

......until our two little girls arrived and I started to draw again to amuse them, and started to enjoy the act of creating funny little drawings.

So with a little bit of encouragement and a lot of assistance I've started this blog to get into a routine of producing sketches, drawings, cartoons and other bits and bobs and sharing them with the world.....

So here's the first.  Following a visit to the wonderful 'Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre' I did this Quentin Blake inspired sketch of the family.........