Happy Christmas

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2 Preview pages from issue one of my comic book.

I don't have a series title, but the first issue I think is called -0.

It is set in the Sand-le-Mere caravan park near Hull, the world's northernmost point at 0˚ Meridian, and follows a beautifully dressed cat on his holiday discovering WW2 coastal defences, eating pie and peas and entering into a very engrossing game of Hexagonal Chess

Chicken Shack Gallery

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88 Hampstead Lane

(From A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger 1946))

J: Hello G George, hello G George, are you all right? Are you going to try to land, do you want a fix?

P:Name's not G George it's P Peter, Peter D Carter, D's for David, Squadron Leader Peter Carter. No, I'm not going to land, undercarriage is gone, inner port's on fire, I'm bailing out presently, I'm bailing out. ……Take a telegram.

J: Got your message, received your message, we can hear you.

P: Telegram to my mother, Mrs Michael Carter, 88 Hampstead Lane, London North West.

J: 88 Hampstead Lane, London.

Peter's mother apparently lived right next to Hampstead Heath, but it now seems to be stuck right next to a council tip, its hard to tell. I will go and find out...

88 pianos, 88 keys

1 Adult Elephant tusk can produce 44 pianos, thats 88 per Elephant. Each piano has 88 keys.

NASA image of the UK and Ireland

This is something I made last November or thereabouts whilst I was working on an exhibition called Flyer. This part of it was never shown, it is a NASA image of the UK and Ireland.

The image comes from here:

Here the important part of the image, for NASA, is the equation of the space shuttle Endeavour with HMS Bark Endeavour in which my ancestor Captain Cook sailed to Terra Australis Incognita.

Incidentally the space shuttle Endeavour was named in a competition won by students at Tallulah Falls High School, and its first launch was embarrassingly advertised by a sign that spelled it Endeavor, because NASA staff hadn't realized the reason for the English spelling.

Sorry, realised.

Instructions

In my old job there was a secret staircase with a secret cupboard in it that nobody seemed to care about. In this cupboard I placed instructions for each of the red, white, green, blue and orange teams. The notion is that if anything happens in the game that creates a void between players understanding and the reality of play, or if things become dangerous, there is a place, which only I know the exact location of, where basic explanations can be found pertaining to these teams.