Kev F comic art: North South East & West

Thursday, 30 June 2022

North South East & West - travels with my art

I put the miles in in June 2022. Let's just make a note of it all, lest I forget...

My thanks to teachers and staff unknown for these photos of me in class, taken from their Twitter posts.

Mon May 30 - finally got BT Broadband fitted. We'd ordered it on Feb 21st and we moved on March 3rd. Thought it would be fitted the following week. It took 8 planned visits, only 3 of which actually happened, to finally get someone with hoist to get to the top of the telegraph pole in front of our house, connect up a phone line, and give us broadband. For the first month we had no broadband that we could watch TV with, using our 4G signals and what BT Wifi we could nab. Then they gave us a 4G minihub which was marvellous. As of May 30th we had a normal supply. There's a First World Problem if you ever heard one.

Tues May 31st - Chipping Barnet Library

Fri 3 & Sat 4 June - Wildwords Festival, Herts

Mon June 6 - Socks preview in Otley, Leeds

Tues June 7 - Leeds Playhouse classes

Weds June 8 - Brough Primary, Cumbria

Thurs June 9 - Tweedmouth Middle, Berwick On Tweed (followed by 6 hour drive home)

Sat June 11 - Clevedon Literary Festival (above)

+ Socks preview at Tap Room, Neath

Sun June 12 - Housewarming Party

Mon June 13 - Socks preview at Notts Stuff Festival

Tues/Weds June 14/15 - Ruskin Juniors, Swindon

Thurs June 16 - car in for service

Fri June 17 - BBC radio interview with Socks (first use of Zoom since we moved house) to plug forthcoming Ludlow show

Sat June 18 - Class at Neath Community Centre

Sun June 19 - Class at Ludlow Womens Centre + Socks preview at same venue (below)

Mon June 20 - Jude & Doug visit

Weds June 22 - Inscape House, Cheadle

Thurs June 23 - Socks preview at Grassington Festival, Yorks

Friday June 24 - Socks headline slot at Camberley, Surrey.

(These two gigs couldn't be a bigger contrast. Socks killed with their hour long preview in Grassington, to a full house of about 50. Then were met with stoney silence by a comedy club crowd, of about 50 in a 100 seater room, who had been equally subdued for the acts before us.)

Sat June 25 & Sun June 26 - Comics Salopia, Shrewsbury

Mon June 27 - car back in to Robins & Day to diagnose rattle that's happened since it was serviced a few weeks ago. It's the heat shield, which needs ordering. With that temporarily fixed, then drove up to Leeds.

Tues June 28 - Trinity Academy Leeds (above & below)

Weds June 29 - Arden Academy Solihull

Thurs June 30 (and Weds night) - Clevedon School

Fri July 1st - Trip to the tip, then a day catching up with invoices and colouring the covers from the past week's comics by kids

Sat July 2nd - Macc Pow comics event in Macclesfield, then overnight in Buxton, where I'm typing this ahead of a Socks preview in Derby tonight.

Busy enough for you?