Look At All Those Monkeys!

Look At All Those Monkeys!

Look at all those monkeys Jumping in their cage. Why don't they all go out to work And earn a decent wage? How can you say such silly things, And you a son of mine? Imagine monkeys travelling on The Morden-Edgware line! But what about the Pekinese! They have an allocation. 'Don't travel during Peke hour', It says on every station. My Gosh, you're right, my clever boy, I never thought of that! And so they left the monkey house, While an elephant raised his hat. Spike Milligan Another poem, this one was one of my favourites to do, although it was also the most work! Lots and lots of tiny bits of paper, my studio looked liked it had been subject to some kind of hurricane!

Jumbo Jet by Spike Milligan

Jumbo Jet.

I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg you pardon?',
I said 'This place is England, what are you doing here?',
He said 'Ah, then I must be lost' and then 'Oh dear, oh dear'.

'I should be back in Africa, on Saranghetti's Plain',
'Pray, where is the nearest station where I can catch a train?'.
He caught the bus to Finchley and then to Mincing lane,
And over the Embankment, where he got lost, again.

The police they put him in a cell, but it was far too small,
So they tied him to a lampost and he slept against the wall.
But as the policemen lay sleeping by the twinkling light of dawn,
The lampost and the wall were there, but the elephant was gone!

So if you see an elephant, in a Jumbo Jet,
You can be sure that Africa's the place he's trying to get!


Spike Milligan

Another of Spike Milligan's lovely poems. More tweaks and text to come!

Kingsgate.

Every year Middlesex has a show where we do observational work in a place in London. This year it was Kingsgate. We enter our work and the tutors pick a select few to display and sell.

Two of mine were selected so I was chuffed!




At the show this one was the second to sell after one that our our tutor had done. Made me very happy indeed!

Message in a bottle three.

A combined trip to the National Potrait Gallery and London Zoo.

The illustrated message inside was a series of linocuts combining portraits from the gallery and the animals in the zoo that the portraits reminded me of:

Packaging: