Morning Advertiser - Every Little Helps?

A piece for this Thursday's (27/XI/08) pub trade magazine Morning Advertiser. The author here wonders at the drastic dichotomy in this country between those sectors that need to provide excellent service in order to survive ( like Tesco's for example) and the Government's incompetant legislative sectors that are just happy to 'muddle through', wasting resources and failing to deliver on time or within budget. He goes on to wonder what would happen if those running the UK Government and Tesco's were to swap places, and how long it would take the former to run the latter's business into the ground.

So, I've shown a bemused Gordon Brown in Tesco's uniform.

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Daily Mail - Gardening - Winter Digging

Dig your garden over the Winter and Jack Frost will lend a hand breaking down the soil.

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Daily Mail - Gardening - Comfrey

Plant comfrey if you want to attract bees to your garden. They love blue flowers the best of all.

Jan 09

Daily Mail - Gardening - Garlic

Plant garlic on the shortest day of the year and harvest it on the longest.

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Daily Mail - Gardening - Catnip

Protect your catnip from total feline dessimation by placing a disused hanging basket upside down over it.

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Guardian Education -28 November 08

A piece by Phil Beadle for next week's Education section. This was about the futility of pointing the finger of blame and taking responsibility.

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Monsters Promo Poster Icons 2

A few additional figures for this forthcoming project.

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Monsters Promo Poster Icons

Here are my contribution to a collaborative poster design that my illustration collective Monsters is putting together. There's 9 of us in toto, so it should look brilliant, with 90 odd characters scrabbling across an A2 background.

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Daily Mail - Gardening - Bird Box

Put up a birdbox this winter and fill your garden with birdsong come spring.

Daily Mail - Gardening - Frogs

Encourage frogs into your garden with a small pond, or even an old sink.

Daily Mail - Gardening - Snails

In the winter months check out and remove slugs and snails from under pots and rocks before they multiply in the spring.

Daily Mail - Gardening - Burgler

Deter burglers from stealing your tools and gardening equipment by marking your name and postcode clearly on them!

Daily Mail - Gardening - GrowBags

When you've finished with your garden growbags, don't grow away - use the compost inside as a mulch for heathers and water in well.

Bonfire Night/ Guy Fawkes' Night

Remember, Remember
The Fifth of November
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

Jacobean anti-Catholic clampdown, or an excuse for fireworks, bonfires, toffee, oxtail soup and parkin? You decide.

Guy (or Guido) Fawkes, the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions, some say.

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Labels 2

A couple more labels for booze I have made

Daily Mail - Gardening - Carrot Fly

Protect carrots from carrot fly by putting up a 24 inch high fleece barrier around the crop.

Daily Mail - Gardening - Holly berries

If you want berries on the holly boughs you deck your halls with this Yuletide cover them now with a net to keep the birds off them.

Daily Mail - Gardening - Camelias