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King Arthur's most ignominious moment

King Arthur’s Most Ignominious Moment

13 September, 20197 October, 2010

King Arthur’s Most Ignominious Moment: When he was stopped by the police for carrying a drawn sword down Kensington High Street.

Categories Illustration, Images
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Six degrees of propinquity: The genesis

17 July, 201929 April, 2010

Six degrees of propinquity: a variation on the Artwiculate wordgame that I came up with, shared and saw played by others. This is how it came about,

Categories At the Quill

Lily the Pink – the saviour of the human race

11 August, 20198 December, 2009

On the 8th December 2009, the Artwiculate Word of the Day was embrocation. It seemed as good a reason as any to edit and compress to Twitter length the lyrics to “Lilly the Pink”.

Categories Articulations, Poem
Helmse and Caruthers in the inglenook

The Inglenook Incident – a Case for Sheerluck Helmse

16 April, 201921 November, 2009

On the 21st November, the Word of the Day was Inglenook. It seemed to call out for Sherlock Holmes. Since he wasn’t available, I invented a new Consulting Detective, Sheerluck Helmse, and his biographer Winston Caruthers.

Categories Articulations, Story
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