In the beginning...

...to the fore-runner of this blog  and the start of the late daily posting odyssey which commenced on January 1st.,2011. Space allocated by the site-designer for hosted blog texts was more than ample. However, only one column (all of 8cms wide) was allocated for illustrations to the right of the text rubric. That cramped my drawing style greatly... it meant pics did not always publish immediately adjacent to the relevant text ... and, some of the +/- 700 mostly elder site membership expressed difficulty in reading the 'squished' cartoon text. About half-way through the little over 2 years the 'toon blog ran on that site, I discovered  some flexibility in the illo space capacity, so commenced creeping up the width of tendered 'toons until they were  at 16 cms by the time the site folded in Mar/Apr 2013.

After my brief holiday yesterday (mostly spent raking grass on my son's semi-rural property ahead of fire hazard restrictions)... today is being spent in-doors with the shade temperature outside on the cusp of 40C!  Mad dogs and englishmen country only THAT is!

So an earlier than intended return to the blog with first of a 2 part look at the first month of the 4 year daily marathon I terminated on New Year's eve.