Things you wouldn’t show your mother.
I feel moderately safe in the knowledge that my mother won’t be reading this. For a start, she neither owns a computer nor has the first clue about using one - which helps. Plus, she is ninety-two and her eye-sight’s not what it used to be. But what’s slightly worrying is that she’s still got all her marbles, apart from the occasional geriatric moment, and does cryptic crosswords every day, solving anagrams and hidden clues as well as the rest of us. Nevertheless, it would take some fiendish sadistic swine to point her in the direction of her son’s outpourings on this blog.
Which brings us to ……… what exactly wouldn’t I show my mother?
This excellent cartoon by Lyn Davies, the winning entry in this week’s caption competition on the forum of the Cartoonists Club of Great Britain is a case in point….
( www.lyndavies.blogspot.com and www.cartoonists.co.uk/lyndavies )
There’s a certain irony in this. My Mum’s favourite TV programme happens to be Countdown, and yet she wouldn’t understand the cartoon. She’d see the word titwank and think it was some obscure endangered species of birdlife, bless her. So, on reflection, I probably could show her this cartoon after all.
Just for the record, her second favourite programme is the quiz show presented by that irritating Robinson woman who makes my ears bleed every time she opens her mouth.
My own entry to this week’s competition was a bit disappointing really, and only attracted a few votes. All the same, I had splendid fun drawing those chaps laughing, and playing around with different expressions of mirth.
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