peter

BOWG continues to annoy the inhabitants o’ The Glen! Especially the grumpiest one of all. 
 
Enjoy!
George

While we’re talking comics - here is the third in the eejits webcomic! Enjoy peeps! 
 

Ach dang it. That would have been awesome. Could have continued to ramp up the idiocy every subsequent strip. Cheers Peter. 

It only gets worse for poor GEECHER! (To be honest, I think I could have done better with this one but hopefully you enjoy it).
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Cheers,
George

It could be worse, the bears might cover him in honey.  By pouring a beehive over his head. Cue the bees!

Morning peeps!
Here’s the 2nd o’ the eejits comic strip for your viewing pleasure! Enjoy some more silliness from The Glen.
As always - everything was created in Affinity Designer  
George

@Alfred and @peter  well here, we are almost done.  Alfred has the right solutions for those two stanzas.  As for the still-unresolved conundrum, try this:
It’s not as if
He had to clean
That carpet crawling
Needles green
Poetic licence permits omitting unnecessary words 😏.  And we are all wildly successful poets, right?   The easiest thing with this particular rendition is to hum the original melody.  Those 8-syllable stanzas stick out like a sore thumb.  (submitted by a sore head?  Moi.). Happy New Year, both of you!🙂

The poem, obviously! (Or rather, the scansion.)
Try
and
I’m not quite sure what to do with “That carpet crawling” (five syllables instead of four, at least for me). Perhaps Jennifer will come up with a solution — and no, I don’t mean a carpet-cleaning solution!

Oh man I think this does it! Ironically in searching for answers I did see some tutorials about pasting vector objects into text paths but I didn't realize I could highlight multiple items and have them all pasted as individual "characters" on the path.
I still think (and maybe I should request?) that the dotted lines should respond to the stroke width tool or pressure profiles, but this gets me closer. Thanks!

Hi, for searching for fonts online, there are also : https://www.myfonts.com/fr/pages/whatthefont
Thank you for the other two search sites that I didn't know about. 😘

Nice, did you want have a look at this and see what floats your boat? Do you have any images that inspired you?
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/452259987566133630/
Then go here and see what's similar to what you want. They have an font identifier tool to tell you what font has been used in the image you've uploaded.
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator
 
Hope it helps.

It's a very easy fix, unlike my prescription.

You're welcome. It's the same company, so they had it solved all of those years ago.

Just a silly thing done in Designer with a single custom brush made from some shapes.
Don’t stare at it too long; the tails start to wriggle. (Also, it can ‘persist in your vision’ a bit soon after when looking at light-coloured areas, so best not to try.)
Possibly a contender for this year’s “Most Horrible Desktop Background” competition.

Those of us with long memories of using Serif's "Plus" range of software will recall the manuals that came with that range. I still have the impressive bundle of manuals that came with my PagePlus 3.0 suite - 0ver 700 pages of information both in using the software together with DTP guidelines.
I van appreciate why Serif don't produce printed manuals these days, but I am sure a PDF Manual/handbook would be useful and give more room for ecamples.

Well done Allan, there's no stopping you now!
 
Great work there lad, your world domination starts here...
Twitter-Check
Club Hub-Check
Amazon-Check
Ebay-Next
Netmums-Next
Cbeebies-Next
NETFLIX!!!
 
Take a deep breath, smile and then bask in that warm glow; that some toddler, somewhere, way-past-bed-time will not go to sleep until that book is read by Gran or Grandad for the third time!
 
Or that poor primary schoolteacher who is getting badgered with "Miss, Miss...when is the next book coming out and will you read it to us when it arrives?"
 
So I'm not putting on the thumb screws at all. In fact it's a massive pat on the back.
 
peter
 
PS
 
Move over Peppa Pig...the revolution has started and it is strawberry coloured!
 

I can't understand why no animation studio wants to make an animated series with these cuddly little guys.

 

Here is the first ever eejits webcomic for your viewing pleasure. More to come…
 

We’re all flocking back here (thanks to Peter for the nudges). Feels like returning home. 
Glad to see MSM still kicking around and looking even better than ever!! Awesome! 

George

Havoc, chaos and complete bedlam, or the day the Eejits invaded? Hang on, this sounds more like a couple of book titles.
Glad you liked the idea . Give the centre a call, see where it goes.
Peter

Looks so much better on the wall in a real room, where it belongs. How did you do the canopy on the rocket? Was it a quick shape with a transparency filter or a different approach? Well done Allen.

This makes it real and it looks like it's been here forever, just like Peppa Pig has. As I said earlier, with Lee Evans doing some of the voice work. Do you have any others who could lend their voices, as I'm sure that could get them to jump off the page and into the readers' heads?

Well done mate, getting a dragon on board is seriously impressive.

You did well, so don't feel so bad: as I may have found somewhere interesting for you and yours...hopefully onwards and upwards.
Do remember my idea, of using your tribe to teach wee kiddies the dangers of life and how to stay safe?
Well, there is a charity based in Milton Keynes that does exactly just that. It's called The Safety Centre - Hazard Alley, which is a dedicated education centre, that has a real life mock up of a street, pond and a few houses. (I've never been inside this building, but I have worked in an almost identical set up for BT/Openreach). This is aimed at 8 year olds and upwards, even adults with needs, to learn to avoid becoming another statistic. 
They teach them how to recognise the risks in these places, fire, home, online in the car and around open water. Much better than just using an app!
This is an idea setup by the fire brigade and supports the school syllabus. It even has a virtual tour.
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xzxCRCfEuHX&guides=0
Imagine if the Eejits turned up, either in book form, life size cardboard cutouts, plushies or even as a furry mascot! It might get a bit noisy!
This could be fun.
(I only found this place by driving past it and going online to see what it's all about)
Enjoy.
 
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xzxCRCfEuHX&guides=0

I wouldn't mind (one day) having someone look over my words. As some people here know, I have been trying to write a kids book for many, many, many years (seriously it has been ages). I started off with a whole world of creatures and an overly complex story with too many characters that I didn't know how to finish (I'm not a writer!) . Now I only have three main characters (2 good friends and 1 baddie type) and more simple story but I'm still wondering about the ending and getting it under 500 words for the young 'uns. That'll come once I finish the first draft and then edit.
Honestly, it has been a load of fun and writing it has put a big ol' smile on my face. It's like the feeling I got when I first started putting eejits up on the web. It's great. Of course, I'll have to get myself a copy o' Publisher to lay out this whole thing!
So maybe once I have grandkids I'll have a book for them to read!!
George