Tag Archives: Her Majesty the Queen

It looks like this might be a sketch for a future lino print…

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Dave Whatt

But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s owl is the one that has been writing a lot of letters to The Times.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Here’s a photograph of a small preliminary drawing for lino print. It is a little drawing, you can tell by the … Continue reading →

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Geometric shapes, instead of tax returns…

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s instructions are: before anything is done, make sure the boiler is fully heated, pull out the nerd strings to their full length, light the fuse pipes marked A, B, D, and E, pull out the … Continue reading →

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Mayonnaise in the rain…

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: sopping, subitaneous, parthenogenetic, importunate, vulpine, adaxial, and risible. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tuesday afternoon, I strolled into town. I was heading for the Wilko store to buy a tin of blackboard paint; a … Continue reading →

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Albert, Madge, and Her Majesty…

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Dave Whatt

But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from John Steinbeck’s amusing and gripping 1945 novel, Cannery Row:The rooster who had challenged the sunrise of this very day lay dismembered and clean in water in the five-gallon can with peeled onions about … Continue reading →

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Famous…

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: frigorific, freemartin, fremd, frijole, friable, frescade, and warhable. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the professor … Continue reading →

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Bold Persil Fairy Lenor Jungle Rescue outshone…

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s old wrinkled black and white snapshot is the one of me shaking hands with Her Majesty the Queen in 1962 – a second after that she kicked me in the shin for saying something untoward … Continue reading →

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Ugg, Lugg, and the turnips…

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s joke is the one about what happened to Her Majesty the Queen’s hat – oh, how we chortled down in the basement back at Buck House! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Ugg, I have seen you, you know!’ ‘Eh?…’ … Continue reading →

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Mail Art Postcard No. 4631…

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s honoured guests are the Salvador Dali lookalike twins, Sandra and Clive Buttermouth. Come on in you two, join us on the sofa! I see you have matching halves of the same moustache… Excellent!… >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No, … Continue reading →

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Mail Art Postcard No. 4598…

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, Europe: Today’s existential angst is centred around the phrase globular cluster. (GC) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Whoa!… (I love that word) I suppose this could be classed as high treason – the crime of disloyalty to the crown. Gosh, can … Continue reading →

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Mail Art Postcard No. 4564…

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, Europe: Today’s existential angst is centred around the word ‘preternatural’. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello?… Yes?… Oh, right… No, no, I really am sorry Your Majesty… No… I didn’t mean any disrespect, well perhaps just a little bit, and… No, … Continue reading →

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A walk packed with significance…

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, Europe: Today’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotation is from A Study in Scarlet: (Watson and Holmes in a cab) It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops looking like the reflection … Continue reading →

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Mail Art Postcard No. 4552…

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Dave Whatt

But first… Dulltown, Europe: Today’s existential angst is centred around the sound of the word fulsome. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, dear reader… I am writing this from my small damp stinking cell deep in the dungeons of the Tower of London… I … Continue reading →

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