Piggy market

This little piggy Teresa made her own costume round at my house for the jumping the fence float. She made it all the way to Taiwan as I found out later she was in a magazine over there. This photo is from the Mardi Gras magazine. I hired a photographer but something went wrong with sorting out copy's of photos with everyone. Contact William if you want photos.


Mardi Gras Sydney 2000 Lambsy lesso's and the woolly woofters jumping the fence float. Photo taken by William Smith. I am an ozzie kelpy dog in this one, spent months making the costumes and ended up with a full farm yard with farmer family and truck. Marilyn did the make up. Kath kelped with props, and everyone helped decorate the float. Lyn helped sort it all out and it was for a counseling hot line.

I just did a weener bit of research on the net to find out more about swine flu. First check was surgical masks, sold out completely and be a week before they can be imported.

The pharmaceutical industry due to the global economic change of thought, has a depletion in sales. So share holders are a bit annoyed, so what might they do.

Create a big porky lie, to sell loads of vaccines and disposable plastic stuff.

This is not the first time we had this sort global consumer shift. Everyone fell for the 1999-2000 invisible bug. Which I made a survival suit for and bought a couple bottles of water with the few dollars I had, but other people spent thousands on bottled water and many other things.

So the pharmaceutical company's have just won over tourism and travel industry.

Personally I don't really like the idea of being vaccinated against swine flu by being given a bit of swine flu.

I am sure the pharmaceutical company's now want to burn me at the stake, like they have always done to Women, who said there hair growing lotions, didn't work. Back in the old days.

I wish they would stop all these health scares as people begin to believe they have it and then get it, from believing they got it.

All this money on plastic disposable masks etc, could have been spent on other more important causes.

List of scares in the last few years, foot and mouth, mad cow disease, 1999-2000, Tb from poor little badgers, bird flu. Seal flu.

Majority are to do with mass factory farming. The way of solving this is to stop eating meat.

Strange I just over heard someone saying that keeping a pig in there backyard as a sign of poverty and dirty living conditions. I would say living next to an enormous factory farm, dirty living conditions. Norfolk I am sure has lots of factory farms so were living in dirty unethical living conditions.

The site I linked is 2005 old news, new news is Norfolk pig farmers have won recent awards for keeping there pigs happy. Well thats a blissing.

Unfortunate that mass panic has started happening and some countrys are slaughtering all there pigs and some are moving there piggys out to the countryside away from citys.

A good place to put a pig is back is in the woods, where they are happy. Pigs would make a good pesticide and fertilizer if they lived on friut farms and ate windfall fruit before it rots. They dont like a lot of sun.

Found a webby with abandoned pig food processing farm photos. Great photos.

Boooby Bread

I am up all night again, painting illustrations and made some bread. A winning shaped bread or does it get the Booby prize. I am thinking now do I go all the way and find a really big oven and bake a full lady and gent.

Pigs can fly as we are finding out the pig flu that is actually a human, pig and onion strain of flu. Has Spread globally and does stem from a pig farm that breeds billions of pigs a year, an American company that also does not deal with the pig manure problem. The locals have complained about the fly's for years from the pig manure poo lagoons.

So yet again this mass farming has backfired on its self. When is the world going to wake up to being a vegetarian and giving up on this piggery.

In Norwich every house hold is allowed to have a few pigs in there back yard. Which I discovered on the deeds to my parents house. It was not long ago when people had pigs in there back yard. Even Dennis the Menace had a pig called Rasher in the Beano comic.

Pigs are really handy for eating all your vegetable and poo waste, but they still like to eat a lot and need insects and things to forage on all year. My garden would love a pig, it has lots of trees and weeds or old fashioned edible foods. But sadly a lot of peoples gardens are lawned and concrete slabbed and potted up with inedible plants or houses have extended into the garden. The outside use to be more important then the inside of the house.

My friend Rebecca and her family in Ireland are successfully having a few free range pigs a year in there wild garden and they have plenty of hams and salami.

Organic free range farming should be top of the list on the governments new system of getting teenagers jobs.

Anyway the pig strain is still unknown of how it spreads, so maybe we can't wash are hands of this one.

If you need a fancy washable mask to wear for piggy plague. Just send me a message.

County council in Norwich has decided to have a nature conservation around it which they think might come from not mowing the lawn all summer. Very strange thinking, it might need quite a lot more then unmowed lawn. Like removing the lawn and planting wild native seeds and hundred years of no human activity.

Turtle pencil holder

As an artist I will use all these pencils in one night and sharpen them again. I like Hb pencils, but in the end it doesn't matter what thickness the lead is. The hand, mood, brain does all the work to make the picture turn out. Pencils are nearly one pound each in price. Its an expensive business this art business. A computer programme that would have all the drawing tools would cost me thousands.

I made a whole family of these turtles they carry all my materials on the table.

Turtles are paper mache.

day 2 illustrating with two hours sleep. About to have another coffee. My work has been seen in China this week. Does it mean I can officially call myself an International Artist and not a local one.

The hospital has gone into emergency pig stations. Hold ya breath. Pigs are genetically 96 percent human. Humans have been murdering piggys for a long time the last few decades they have been locked up in confined conditions for breeding to eat. Pig revenge is on its way. Or is it because the whole world feeds pigs, the same product pig meal with a strange idea of a balanced diet. When they are more refined then that they like truffles and fresh organic vegetables and cheese and wine in France. In Ireland they like parachute mushrooms, watercress, shamrock and woodland fairies.

The Chippalatas

I was flicking through someones Norwich festival guide, snubbing my nose at all the seriously and boring theatre and music on a whole snobby personal perception of I would much rather see a show with local people in and people I know. When low and behold I came across the Chipolata's that are performing at the theatre Royal in Norwich.  I made costumes for them at Bradford festival and then bumped into them again in Sydney and at Woodford festival. There the Best British Talent around and they can entertain the whole family of all ages. Roll up roll up get your family tickets. 

I even have the Chipolatas CD and use to sing along to it with my housemates. If you want a good laugh to start off your summer of giggles, the chips are it.

Hi Chipolatas, come over for a knees up and backward summersault vault in the air, when you get here. Great to see you guys again.

Snot Pie

This lovely pie I invented when I was a naughty teenager to feed my cousins who were also naughty teenagers, one of them was dating a young male chef and he was coming over to meet the family. Its packed full of green vegetables and has a spinach pastry and cheesey sauce dribbling out.  The pie worked a treat my cousin married the chef, he loved the pie.

I made the pie a again for the new generation of cousins and they weren't so impressed.

Letting your kids muck around in the kitchen is the only way there going to eat there greens. 

There is masses of kids cook books out there, handed down family recipes are the best and if your from Norfolk, you have funded Delia Smith's Norwich city football club, by having every copy of Delia's cook books, over the last 4 decades. Delia has got an even newer cookbook out to give the club and extra boost. 

There is also a lovely old Brownies cookbook at on line book sellers.