THE APPOINTMENT

So after much conversation we decided to start a family. Which for us involved a lot of research and learning and reading and figuring out how to go about it.

Finding a suitable donor is a massive decision that shouldn't be taken lightly so we scoured the internet (as you do) for the perfect one. We started out with lots of ideals and wishes but the more we looked in to it the simpler the choice seemed to become. You can decide based on hight and hair colour or how many master degrees they have, but in the end it seemed to be more of a gut feeling.

So we found one, and felt it was a good start. We did all the tests and got checked to make sure we were not psychopaths, and we were all set to go!

THE SCARED FACE

It has been a long while since the last comic, and the reason for this is self inflicted. Below is more about the beginning of this new sleep-deprived but yet exciting way of living. Was it becoming clear that Darwin the Cat was no longer sufficient for this little family?

For anyone interested, the Alternative Parenting Show is actually on this weekend! 

You never know, you too might get a free pen!

THE DINNER

This is one that I started drawing a long time ago and I found it abandoned in a drawer, but I guess it's never too late to finish a comic, so here it is. 

Since we started discussing the Big Question on whether or not to start a little family, we had to do a lot of thinking of what we want to do with our life, from big things to little things. 

One small, but significant thing is that we always have breakfast together at the table, treating it almost like a breakfast meeting. At one of those meetings we realised that we almost always eat dinner in front of the telly, a habit that is not always so good. So we tried to be good grown-ups and change that.

THE QUESTION

A new comic is well overdue, so here is one to prepare for what might be to come.

THE POOL

We have a really great outdoor swimming pool near us that we try to go to as often as we can. It was in a really bad state for many years but a few years ago they did an amazing restoration of the whole thing and now it's really good.

They also had a fantastic exhibition of photographs there last year, called WET+DRY showing the photographer's, Madeleine Waller, fellow swimmers in and out of their swimming gear.
 I have to also add that all the staff are very friendly, and although the comic is real, I think this was probably a case of early-morning-no-coffee-syndrome. Entertaining nevertheless.

THE SLEEP TALK

I never really realised how much I sleep talk. And there is some quite entertaining acting that goes with it too. Sometimes it is just a bit too much for poor Jacqui. It doesn't happen every night but quite often she gets woken up by a seemingly awake and very insistent me, who tries to convince her that something is happening. Here is a selection of some recent events.

THE ACCOMODATION

Last weekend we drove for 2 days south from Sydney. We stopped halfway in Canberra and went for a visit to parliament and got a sneak peak of the Australian Question Time. One of the ladies of the opposition got expelled for 1.5 hours for insulting the Speaker and there was general shouting and booing every now and again. Entertaining. Then we went on to Melbourne and the house of a friend of Jacqui's from her student days in Paris.

THE COFFEE

We are currently in Australia, and together with New Zealand there is no better coffee-making people in the world, so one of the first things I did when we landed was to find a good coffee place to sample the goods. I also met some of the locals.

THE SILENCE

There was a small invasion of people from the Ma family this week....

THE VISITOR PART 2

So the infamous eye infection has changed its tune, and has turned into a version that makes it pretty scary waking up in the morning next to a creepy looking red-eyed monster.

This is the sequel to The Visitor... as the name might suggest.

THE VISITOR

Jacqui woke up the other day looking like a zombie who had befriended 'The Blob' from the film with the same name starring a young Steve McQueen. It turned out to be an eye infection (conjunctivitis) and it's a nasty one. Good timing as it is Halloween.

So, Happy Halloween everyone.

THE WEEKEND

This weekend has been like a social tour of London. And here it is in pictures.