23rd of January 2012 – 9th February 2013 is the Year of the Dragon. If you are a Dragon this is going to be a great year for you, so get out there and raise some hell! For all the rest of us, expect some pretty spectacular barbecues.

May your Christmas stockings be full to overflowing – Lots of chocolate, at least one satsuma and absolutely no coal!

Please do not poke the Eel!

As usual you can pester your friends with this from our e-card site www.SqueakyCards.com

Ah. The English summer! Dandelions all over your lawn and Gray skies above. Strangely relaxing, especially if you have a couple of gallons of dandelion wine fermenting  in the cupboard under the stairs. Revenge is, after all, best served cold.

This is a new e-card designed by Mo Choy (My wife and business partner) and built by my good self. Head on over to www.SqueakyCards.com if you would like to send it.

A big thank you to Klankbeeld at the Freesound project for the meadow sound effects.

It’s Fathers Day coming up on Sunday the 19th.
This is my salute to all the cool neck ties you could have bought your Dad and that he would have had to wear if he really loved you.

If you haven’t written that card yet you can send this one from SqueakyCards.com. If your Dad hasn’t quite got a handle on the new fangled electric postal thing, there is nothing for it. Run to the shops now or it will be straight to your room after dinner without any Telly!

Halloween is almost upon us and I’m assuming that everyone has taken the usual garlic-based precautions to ward off the creatures of the netherworld?

I thought not.

While it has long been known that garlic has a special affinity with the supernatural, it is little known fact that that is true of other members of the allium family. Pickled onions, especially old ones, can be especially tricky during Halloween and can often end up working for the opposition. Be warned. Stay safe!

Note: Pickled Eggs are thought to have similar properties. This is not strictly true. They are evil at any time of the year.

The Summer is ending  and Halloween approaches. The veil between this world and the next is wearing thin and bobbly. It is a time when horrors from the other side poke their noses into our affairs and small children roam the streets extorting sugar based food stuffs.

The Pumpkin Cat eats children like that!

This has happened to me more times than I care to remember. Not this year, Oh no. This year I’m going to use one really big candle.

This would make some interesting sandwiches.