scarygoround

Thank you, John! I can appreciate the workload and the need for a sabbatical (see above). I have skipped back to the beginning of the story line now! Somehow I had not read this one and enjoying it immensely!

Shelley hitting the advocaat always cracks me up. I only ever saw it eaten with a teaspoon

Always weird when someone buys a domain name because it had a certain amount of previous traffic and they hope to capitalize on that? Here, for example, is a new post on Bobbins Dot Horse:
https://bobbins.horse/soi-cau-lo/

I see a lot of these because I use an RSS reader, and website necromancy will suddenly fill a old feed that’s been sitting fallow with all sorts of SEO nonsense.

20 years ago today, on an expedition to Wales to convince Tim Jones to return to Tackleford, Esther de Groot and Eustace Boyce took their relationship to the next level.

A red letter day indeed!

LIES LIES IT HAS NOT BEEN… TWO… DECADES…

Ah ha! Thank you! I knew the little Shelly icon meant it was something Tackleford related but my RSS reader won’t let me see the urls of subscriptions for some reason. Time to adios bobbins dot horse I guess.

I have apparently not read all these stories, was this scarygoround?

I’d been reading SGR casually after Tycho of Penny Arcade had drawn attention to John switching to hand-drawn art… this was the story, and the strip, that pretty much hooked me for life.

The signs indicating The Boy’s dropping IQ were a nice touch.

“Smile… Talk… Face… Nice… Pants… Problems…”

I visited my local library yesterday and was delighted to find copies of SGR volumes 5 and 6 (Great Aches and Ahoy Hoy). Some interesting tales in there (Ryan in the afterlife! Bears and SAUCE in Wales), which I haven’t revisited in years, and some really fun, colourful art.

My key question, I guess, is how many times do I have to borrow these books for Mr JA to receive mega cash from HM Government?

Today would’ve been Natalie Durand’s 45th birthday

rip Natalie

Natalie was a good ‘un. I miss her.

Yes, back when tackle ford still had giant bees…. And assasins galore.

Website redesign is faboo.

Ten years ago today (chronologically speaking), Peggy Winters was born.

I managed to get to Sheffield to see John at SCARF with my 9yo. I asked her if it was strange meeting the person who made Bad Machinery and she said yes she didn’t realise he would be so tall.

Noticed that the Solver volume 2 cover had changed Lottie’s expression from uncertain to confident

Then I remembered this wasn’t the first time this type of change happened