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Posted by Dave at 1:02 pm on September 26, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.
You can post this one on your blog for free – see We Blog Cartoons to get the pastable code.
My life is not really one that consists of a huge amount of looking out of the window at the moment. I am under a bit of pressure as the wedding is approaching and I am getting ready to move house with all that that entails as well as having bits and bobs of work to do. I’m sure you’re tired of hearing me go on about it. This weekend will be spent decorating I think – in order to make an office for me at Maddie_C’s house some fitted wardrobes are being torn out and paint painted onto the walls. We’re going for white with an extra something in the paint that makes it go really really white (with a dash of blue).
I do see keeping up with this blog as one of my priorities though. Partly because without readers I have no audience and without an audience I have no-one to look at my cartoons and without people to look at my cartoons I have no money and without money my socks remain holey and my coffee cup half-filled. But also because writing the blog is something I really enjoy doing.
So, I’m going to attempt to keep the blog going on a daily basis over the summer even though I won’t be here for a lot of it and will not be looking at my computer. ‘How are you going to do that David, you foolish fellow?’ I hear you ask. Well, I’m not sure. Perhaps by reposting old cartoons in a ‘best of’ style, or maybe by getting guest writers in to do some posting. Or posting links to reader’s blogs. Or something else. I don’t know. What do you think?
I may well be asking someone for some help in August to pop into the blog control centre to delete spam, moderate comments and water the plants. (Yes, I know, I should be able to turn comments off. But I find that that doesn’t work at the moment in my WordPress blogs for some reason.) If you are around for most or some of August and would be happy to help out with that and you are someone I know I’d be very pleased to hear from you.
Posted by Dave at 3:11 pm on July 7, 2006 and filed under CartoonChurch progress, Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.
You can repost this one on your blog for free – see my We Blog Cartoons site for a bit of code which will enable you to do so with a minimal amount of fuss and/or bother.
Posted by Dave at 9:58 am on July 6, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Transport.
You can find this one at We Blog Cartoons, my site where cartoons with nowhere to lay their weary heads find new owners who will take them home and give them the love and care they deserve. If you are in the position to copy a small piece of code then please, for the sake of those poor little helpless cartoons do the right thing.
These are the topics that are on my mind today. Any advice will be welcomed with open arms:
Sunday shopping
Good excuses for doing so. And yes, of course you need an excuse. Think of the ten commandments!
Church noticeboards
Inside the church or outside. What do you find on them?
Mission in the workplace
Subtle ways to let your collegues know you are a churchgoer. This was inspired by the comment Tiffer made about 5 minutes ago. Well done Tiffer!
As before I thank you sincerely and in advance for your ideas.
Posted by Dave at 9:55 am on June 27, 2006 and filed under Cartooning, Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.
I have folded this cartoon up, put it in an envelope, stuck a stamp on it and posted it to We Blog Cartoons. You are welcome to freely re-use the cartoon on your own blog, but please donate the used stamp to a used stamp charity.
These are my thoughts on this partially cloudy Essex morning:
I have been thinking about ‘right and wrong’. Is it the responsibility of the individual to decide what is right or wrong? Or does the community of faith (the ‘church’, some might call it) have a role in telling us what is right and wrong too?
I feel that, on one hand, unless one has walked in another person’s shoes, experienced what they have experienced then we, as onlookers have no right to judge their actions. If another person has honestly thought their actions through and used and used the best means at their disposal to decide what is right and what is wrong (For example their conscience, the Bible as they understand it, their own life experience, etc) who are we to tell them they are mistaken?
But then again this view breaks down when it comes to actions that we all acknowledge are wrong. We all, for instance, would agree that it is wrong to steal pencils. I cannot imagine that any unrepentant pencil-stealers frequent this blog. But what if a friend believes strongly that if they see a pencil it is their right to take that pencil home and add it to their pencil case? Surely we would be right to make them see the error of their ways. Otherwise no pencils would be safe and scociety would descend into chaos. ‘Lock up your pencils’ would become our watchword.
The problem is, I suppose, that we need to decide which ‘wrongs’ are undisputed wrongs and which are debatable wrongs. The problem is often that there are disputes about which ones are undisputed. I suspect the disagreements in the Anglican world stem in part from such a difference of opinion.
If you have no idea what I have been on about please continue merrily on your way and come back tomorrow when I shall refrain from such in-depth talk. Otherwise do feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Posted by Dave at 10:27 am on June 23, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Profound.
This procrastination cartoon is available for free repostage on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. I’ll add it to the ‘downloads’ section at Cartoonchurch.com if anyone would like me to.
Right, no more procrastination or internet surfing for me today. I’ve got work to do. No time to tell you about the remarkable and unexplained revival in fortunes of Wibsite.com in the UK Christian websites chart. No time to redirect you to Steve Tilley’s post about human evolution. No time to pontificate upon whether the Anglicans are on the brink of schism, the brink of the brink of schism, or the brink of the brink of the brink of schism.
No, not me. I’ve got cartoons to draw. By the way, if anyone has ideas for cartoon subjects for my ‘Guide to the Church’ series that I haven’t yet covered then all sugestions made in the comments will be tremendously welcomed. If you can suggest a funny angle to the subject in question then that’s even better.
Not that I’ll be reading my blog comments today. Oh no, I’ve got work to do.
Posted by Dave at 10:14 am on June 22, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, Slacking.
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Posted by Dave at 4:58 pm on June 8, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, Household hints, New CartoonChurch cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.
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I’d like to point out that I’m not anti-World Cup. I’ll probably watch a match or two. But some of the rubbish one can buy does cause me to raise my quite literal eyebrows.
Posted by Dave at 6:00 am on June 6, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, Current events, Football, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, World cup.
Live stream the World Cup on your blog
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This cartoon was inspired by the fact that FIFA (or their representatives) have been sending out threatening letters to bloggers telling them that they are monitoring their sites for unlawful activities and that they better not even think of live-streaming the world cup games. Bear in mind that the sites receiving the letters are largely sites with no interest in football whatsoever. (Thanks to Darren for the tip-off.)
If you’d like more people to monitor your site for activities of any kind then feel free to place this cartoon on your blog.
Posted by Dave at 5:52 pm on June 4, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, Current events, Football, New Weblogcartoons cartoons, World cup.
This one has been added to We Blog Cartoons, my site with cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog. Please freely re-use it on your blog.
I keep looking at this cartoon and thinking that it must be offensive to someone. People who live in bins perhaps. If this is you please accept my apologies. My intentions were always good.
Posted by Dave at 10:13 am on May 26, 2006 and filed under Cartoons, New Weblogcartoons cartoons.
