Monthly Archives: August 2016

The new lino print…

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s 19th c. Cockney expletive is, ‘Well, I wish my bloody eyes may drop out!’ Hm, very colourful… I don’t think I’ll bother trying to bring that one back into use. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well here it is, … Continue reading →

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Some reasonably interesting small items…

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s gorilla is the one in the Bermuda shorts, wearing sunglasses, talking on his phone, over there on the lounger by the pool… >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 304. I’m sorry I’m late, but I … Continue reading →

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Enquire Within (15). Some hundredths more cream…

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: febrile, eidetic, metronymic, skeletal, lentous, and bumpy. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No, it can’t be!… Is this really 1934?… No, it’s not, but let’s pretend – we’ll again open up that fusty old junk … Continue reading →

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Some overheard and misheard snatches of cafe conversation…

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman, written in the early 1940s, but not published until 1967 after the author’s death. ‘There now,’ said MacCruiskeen. ‘It is nearly too nice,’ I said at … Continue reading →

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Shall we talk about socks?…

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s existential angst is centred around the sound of the word ‘meringue’. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘I’ve recently been pondering on socks…’ ‘Socks?…’ ‘Hm…’ ‘Good for you!’ ‘It’s a far deeper subject than you might at first think.’ ‘Is … Continue reading →

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Linocut coming along nicely…

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s architectural term is ‘pulpitum’ – a stone screen in a major church erected to shut off the choir from the nave. I was planning to have a nice pulpitum built in my major church, but … Continue reading →

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An explanation of those O and MS of CC, and those SLM over the CH…

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s colours are: drab dun, vicious violet, perky pink, ‘orrible orange, and boorish brown. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, do you like these Some Overheard and Misheard Snatches of Cafe Conversation, and these Song Lyrics Misheard over the Cafe … Continue reading →

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‘Hammered against their natural curve…’

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s instruction is to lay it out flat on a level outdoor area, such as a lawn, smear something sticky and sweet around its perimeter to attract the insects, take your clothes off, and skip about … Continue reading →

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Mail Art Postcard No. 4527…

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel Nausea (1938): I withdraw my hand, I put it in my pocket. But straight away, through the material, I feel the warmth of my thigh. I promptly make my … Continue reading →

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Uncle Dave’s guitar club…

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s choice adjectives are: curly, amorphous, teetering, imponderable, epideictic, tousled, and prootic. I think my favourite of these has to be ‘prootic’. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> People seem to think that guitars should be like boyfriends or girlfriends – … Continue reading →

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One or two short items…

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s random dictionary words are: flote, floccus, floscule, flota, flittern, flimp, and basipetal. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Before the … Continue reading →

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A pause in the design…

Posted on August 20, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s zebra is the spotted one. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So anyway, about six or seven months ago I decided, in a rare burst of optimism, that I really should do some more lino printing; I opened an A4 … Continue reading →

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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s elephant in the room is the one playing Fly Me to the Moon on the grand piano with his trunk. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Fasten my twelve girl.’ ‘Snow snow, woe woe…’ ‘I’m gonna tell down above me…’ … Continue reading →

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From the cafe window…

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: sloping, harmonic, muzzy, sthenic, mnemonical, and fruity. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, there you are, sitting in the cafe sipping at a hot cup of tea and slicing thin sticky rectangles off a Belgian … Continue reading →

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Pencils, pencils, and pencils…

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotation is from the Sherlock Holmes short story Silver Blaze: “We are going well,” said he, looking out of the window and glancing at his watch. “Our rate at present is … Continue reading →

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Doom in the early hours…

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman: On the other hand I could not help recalling what the Sergeant had told me about his fears for his bicycle and his decision to keep … Continue reading →

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A whirling cadenza of pure sound and colour…

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s 19th c. Cockney expletive is the popular ‘gorblimey!’ – a condensed form of ‘God blind me!’ Why does the word ‘gorblimey’ conjure up in my mind the grinning face of Dick Van Dyke?… (DVD) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> … Continue reading →

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A sort of film review…

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s heraldic term is ‘raguly’ – a line of partition on a shield rather like battlements, but set obliquely. (Raguly) I used to have battlements raguly on my shield, but I found them irritating and had … Continue reading →

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A few short but pithy items…

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s random dictionary words are: couchee, cotyledon, coucal, cotyle, coulisse, coumarin, and bum-boat. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the … Continue reading →

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Mail Art Postcard No. 4538…

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s existential angst is centred around the sound of the word ‘spurious’. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, it’s another Dave Whatt mail art postcard, (these will be worth a fortune one day) a simple collage on fluorescent card using … Continue reading →

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