Sunday Catch Up

Well I am currently at my parents house looking after their pets while they are away. They have chickens (bantams), two dogs (springer and staffie), one cat and two gerbils. So far everyone has been very well behaved. My fiancé came down and stayed the night but went back today because he has work today.

So yesrerday we went to Wimpy because he had never been! For those who might not know, Wimpy is a fast-food chain that started in the 30's. It's like a British version of McDonalds but has table service, proper knives and forks, proper plates and pots of tea. Very civilised. They also do quorn burgers now so that was pretty awesome. I love Wimpy restaurants, they're so much nicer than McDonalds or Burger King type places.

Image by SaffyH

We also went down to the seafront arcades to play on the Mario Kart arcade game!

As I've already mentioned this week we had Hourly Comic Day and I did draw comics for it, but I haven't finished inking them so I'll be uploading those later this week hopefully. We went to Canterbury for the day so it should be fairly interesting. Usually I'm home all day so it makes a change!

Image from candyblog.net

I also discovered coconut M&Ms this week! I haven't tried them yet as I am currently gorging on pineapple pieces but I will report once I've eaten them! Although the sexy female M&M weirds me out.

In other news I discovered this lovely lady last night and thought I had better share! Also that was some wicked alliteration! FeministFrequency is pretty cool and Anita makes some really good, clear points about feminism and pop-culture. Her aim is to make feminism accessible and easy to understand because it's often very academic and stuffy. She also does a great job of dispelling all the stupid myths pushed by the media that give feminism and feminists a bad name. Whether you consider yourself a feminist or not, especially if not, check out her videos.

Toy Ads and Learning Gender

Edit: THE SNOW! It snowed during the night and now we have a good 15cm of snow covering everything. The dogs are okay with it, although the staffie keeps giving me "whyyy?" looks from the shed. The cat has disappeared as usual. The chickens are in their little house peering out and clucking at the snow, the cockerel gave me a look of "REALLY?" when I first opened the door then turned around as if saying to his wives "you won't believe what this stupid human expects us to do". I managed to take a couple of rubbish pictures on my phone so I might edit this later.

Feature Friday: Hourly Comics Day

It was Hourly Comics Days on Wednesday! For those who don't know it's basically a day where you draw a comic depicting something you did for each hour of the day. So you might draw you having breakfast at eight o'clock, you walking to the shops at nine o'clock, you getting distracted by a cute dog on the way home at ten o'clock and so on until you go to bed. To find out more visit the website!

So did you take part this year? If you did them let me have the link to your comic so I can be nosy and have a look! This is the one my fiancé drew:

Check out JezMM to see it in all it's glory and the other stuff he draws 

See what other people created here! I did draw a comic myself I just haven't finished inking it yet but I'll post it once it's done.

So, if you're interested in drawing comics this is a fun way to give it a try because it's nothing serious and you can just mess around. Plus you don't have to think of a story because it's just about your day, so that's done for you. It doesn't need to be funny or even all that interesting so that takes a lot of pressure off.

Later in the year there is 24 Hour Comic Day where you draw an entire comic within 24 hours. You can't plan it or anything beforehand either! So that's another thing to think about if you want to give comics a go and feel like throwing yourself in at the deep end.