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Please have a look around - the latest post from my blog is below and you can access older posts, links to my friends, buy some of my artwork or contact me by clicking on the links to the left.
I have chosen stuff for the portfolio on the basis of raising a smile or some sort of Proustian style nostalgia. I shall add to the collection after a second trawl through the archive. If there is anything that is unclear or puzzling , then please get in touch and I shall sort out the problem.
The comic strips from my previous website will be added soon. We are currently working on a format that will be easy for the viewer, rather than putting up what is ,in effect a printed page. Thanks for your patience on this.
I am also working on a couple of new ones which I want to put up in the Spring.
All the best and enjoy a browse.
Jan
03/08/2008
Freedom is Relative:Gravity is Absolute.
Well , let's admit it , we've all been involved in the Porn trade; property porn that is. We were all up for it aided by the Viagara of all the television shows dedicated to buying , selling or doing up, usually all three. Goggle-eyed buyers being shown around some sunny apartment by some posh blonde. What a formula! 'Do up your Home', 'Do up your Home Abroad', 'Buy at Home Sell at Home' 'Buy and Sell at Home and Abroad'. No need to immerse yourself in the local culture, just exploit the local labour force and sell to the next fever- pitched property gourmands whilst the market is still hot. Create your Dream Home on the telly ...and the trade up!! The only fun in these programmes ( fun in a baying Roman-mob Collisseum kinda way) was watching poor hubby get browbeaten by harridan wifey into getting her way and having all his ideas shot down in flames then accepting her decisions as jointly-made . Ha ha , the poor bugger just has to suck it up . Sorry ,did I say 'fun?' I meant horror and humiliation by one human being by another. Yes , that's it. In the end though, cosmic justice is usually served because hubby, wifey and posh blonde- estate- agentey all deserve one another.
We were all scooped up in the feeding frenzy , from first- time buyers to wannabe rentier landlords. We knew that it couldn't last of course, but like St. Augustine who prayed to God to make him virtuous, but not just yet, we thought let the market boil just until we can sell on . Then aprés moi , le deluge. Indeed.
Much of this has been totally predictable , especially by the professionals monitoring the pubescent lemmings in the financial markets. After what seems to be criminal recklessness in their lending policies after the failure of which they come crying like pre -teens to Mummy, to get bailed out by the Government (that is to say you and me),this bubble seems to have somewhat burst. Just like the South Sea Bubble, Dutch Tulips, Dot Com etc.,etc.,etc.. Just how far do you want to go back? But we never learn and there will be another one round the next corner. This time I shall be ready with a great and expessive BBC programme to ride the Zeitgeist ; 'Buying and Selling Magic Beans Abroad in the Attic in the Sun.' It's a working title at the moment, but it's got legs. Talking of which I need to find a posh blonde.......
