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January 1992: Nightshift on BBC World Service TV. Hagar and wife are co-anchoring the news, and he's saying to the Studio Floor Manager, "...I don't care !! That's not how Saxon Baines would do it !!"
The picture is a tribute to my friend Saxon, who worked with me at the BBC, and then for a couple of years at CNN Sports Illustrated, where she anchored sports. She was always diligent in her work, hence the comment.

January 1992: Nightshifts at BBC World Service TV could get tiring, like anywhere else. Snoopy, is thinking, "It's4 in the morning !! ...Why me...why me... ?!". Believe me, doing those shifts, I knew how he felt.

March 1992: Another nightshift at BBC World Service TV. I co-hosted the news overnight with Lynette Lithgow from time to time. Here, she's performing a sort of yoga with her chair upside down, and Snoopy is commenting, "Lynette, I still don't see how that cures the overnight blues!!"

March 1993: Just a few weeks before I left BBC World Service TV to join CNN, I drew this as an invite to my leaving party. I always found that cartoons pinned up on the wall were a great way to get the staff to pay attention. It was a great bash!

October 1990: This was the invitation poster to my leaving bash from BBC Newsroom SouthEast (my first t-v reporting job). I left the BBC to go to Central TV News in Birmingham. A year later, I was called back to the BBC to launch World Service TV News. At this leaving party, I played drums and sang a little with my band at the time, Blue Rumour.

January 1990: Simon was a freelance sound technician with a cameraman I worked with. He was very good natured, and I wrote text with this picture saying something like, "I can't 'ear nuffin'" ("I can't hear anything" !) -joking about his heavy west London accent.

September 1985: This was a good humoured tribute to the wonderful
engineering staff at BBC Radio Lancashire, where I freelanced for a while. The text said, "There was a time when I couldn't spell ingineer... now I is one" !

March 1991: This followed my first ever skiing trip - the best holiday I
ever had. My very dear friend, Neil Curry, and I spent most of our time in fits of laughter. This is Neil coming down in an exaggerated "snowplough position".

March 1991: Also my first skiing trip (to Italy, incidentally). Joe zipped around at high speed in his reflective glasses (read what's in them). Joe didn't mean to do a ski jump... he just hit a large bump unexpectedly and launched high into the air. This is my tribute to him.

September 1986: My friends Rabeea and Jane Ann wanted to have a 30's style wedding. I was given the task of coming up with an original "Vogue" style invitation card. This was originally intended for the inside, but ended up on the front, and on the seating placement cards.

September 1986: This was also for Rabeea and Jane Ann's wedding in Lancashire, England. The dancing couple was going to be the main picture on the invite, but ended up on the inside instead of the front. Either way, I didn't mind.

April 1993: Eliana and Carlo - dear friends, getting married as a young
couple. She loved her cats - he wasn't so keen on them. He loved playing guitar - she was fed up of hearing him practice. This was the invitation to their wedding. The text had both thinking, "Thank goodness"... then him adding "no cats"... and her adding "no guitar" !

February 1990: Dave worked at Central TV in Birmingham, England. He was being given a transfer to the small office set up in Derby, also in the Midlands region (and pronounced "Daah-bee")... but considering it was as the Gulf War was getting under way, I jokingly wrote text with this one saying, "I'm sure they said "Derby" - not "Abu Dhabi" !".

April 1985: Joe Wilson was hosting :Thru 'til 3" - the afternoon music
show on BBC Radio Lancashire. He was sent a strange letter from a fan, which was addressed to "Joe Wilson, London Bus Driver". This was my tribute to him, with the text, "This job's just the ticket" !

March 1988: This was a subtle -or perhaps not- comment on a management reshuffle taking place at the BBC at that time. The "Blue Peter" garden was a location where a kids television show was filmed periodically, at BB Television Centre. Like many of my drawings, this was a quick scribble, making fun of the film "Terminator" with Arnold Schwarzeneggar (which I actually liked).