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

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.

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.

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.

Bees are Really hairy. No wonder they buzz.

Click for proof.

The Rhinos’ horn is not an aphrodisiac. Messing with it is dangerous and annoys the Rhino. Click to find out why.

Another very silly e-card

We have Siamese cats that purr if you even look at them. This cat takes a little more effort.

From now on I will be trying to stockpile my e-cards so they won’t  initially be available on www.SqueakyCards.com until it launches properly. I will post them on the Blog however so everyone will be able to test drive them.

When I create these e-cards there is a part in the project where I’ve been thinking about them so much I start to worry if the idea is actually amusing  anymore. I suppose it is the artistic equivalent of the athletes pain barrier. I just have to push through it and get to the end. They seem to turn out pretty well and people seem to really enjoy them…if they realize that they have to click something. It all seemed so obvious to me but then I spent hours wiring them up.

I have now gone back and improved the cards above to have more helpful titles and even a hint. You can find the updated cards at www.squeakycards.com I think they benefit hugely.

Many thanks to family and friends for pointing this out and helping to put the extra squeak into the Squeaky cards.

The natural world  is full of comic potential!

I doubt very much whether you could actually do this to a Spoonbill without public outcry and probably a nasty peck or two.

To send this to friends and (bird) lovers flap over to www.squeakycards.com.