What did Kermit Say When He Climbed The Hill?...

..."I, muppet."

If the 8 and 3 quarters year-old me had been told that one day Andy Summers would like one of my tweets, I'd have said, "Wow, great! Erm...What's Twitter? This is 1979. I don't even know about CEEFAX..."

I was glad to see "Beyond Burns" repeated on BBC Scotland . Directed by Alison Pinkey, it's a wee gem. I was glad to compose the music.

I've been keeping drawing in my own imitable style and sharing on Instagram, etc. Thanks to anyone who has offered encouraging comments. I do them for fun and to relax. And in terms of addictions it's cheaper than other vices. Here's a selection...

PS: Farewell, Barry Cryer. Spoken of so fondly. You made a lot of people smile and laugh.

Drawn Out

I've become slightly obsessed with trying to sketch people over the last few days. Not sure where's it's come from. But a couple of encouraging comments gave me the nudge to keep going.

Feel free to try and figure out who's meant to be who...

You Have Been Watching...

Rembrandt...Quentin Blake...Gene Wilder...Igor Stravinsky...Marty Feldman...Antoine Duhamel...Bob Dylan...David Hockney...Dolly Parton...Ronnie Spector...Keith Floyd (sorry, Keith)...Peter Cushing...Self-portrait (och, why not?)...John Herald....John Tavener...Raymond Briggs...Dawn French...Roy Kinnear...Astrid 'why-the-long-face?-Gilberto...Alasdair Gray...Mollie Sugden ..Geoffrey Palmer...Lee Hazlewood...Tommy Cooper....Michael Rosen...Spike Milligan...Peter Sellers...

Fare thee well. x

Wrong Answers Only

 Succession Season 3 - I'm in.

Watched Stand By Me avec la famille. I liked it. Other recent family viewings include Junior Bake Off, Blackadder and Shazam!

Christmas 2020: I requested a sketch pad but barely used it. Too shy to put pencil to paper. Even if no one else saw it. Well, now I'm trying to sketch regularly for the fun of it and not worry too much what anyone thinks (which is just as well).

I tried to copy a caricature of Shostakovich but it looked more like Barry Took.

So Harry Pye suggested I try drawing Barry Took.

I can't un-see Geoffrey Howe.

I tried for Paul McCartney. Someone asked, "Townsend?"

I sketched my favourite drummer...

...someone said, "Rikki Fulton?". Other suggestions received: Richard Manuel, Ricky Fataar, Cozy Powell, Derek Griffiths.

Ringo! Its blinkin' Ringo! Ringo Starr. He was in a band called - oh forget it.

My Picasso ended up somewhere between Telly Savalas and Jean-Paul Gaultier...

OK, let's try Philip Glass...

Voice from the back: "Is it Jonathan Miller?"

Right. Ennio Morricone...

"Michael Caine?"..."Jean-Paul Sartre?"... "Elvis Costello?"..."Philip Larkin?"

I won't share my Billy Connolly. I do have some self respect. Let's just say if Phil Kay and Sean Penn were brothers and the Police were looking for their sibling - I'm the sketch artist for the job.

I'll leave this here. I would ask for wrong answers only, but I suppose there's no need...

If you are carnivorous, Glaswegian, like pizza and you haven't tried the The Big Carne offering at Eusebi - I can recommend it.

Sod it. I'm away to play Wordle.