Local ruins in Lincolnshire ( click on pic to enlarge )

Causing a stink ; Boiler on the blink ; The Cyber Mermaid cartoon blog

The Cyber Mermaid Cracks Up

Too cold to stay at my desk for very long but I have managed to get this one done today. The cartoon has the theme of economic divisions.

Selling handpicked vintage clothing

Original 1960's mini dress above

My ebay account is at http://ebay.co.uk/janeairvintage
I will shortly be selling handpicked vintage clothing including some Laura Ashley dresses.

Lincolnshire Windfarms poem in the February issue of Lincolnshire Pride magazine

1 Feb 2012. I haven't as yet seen it for myself as there are no copies of Lincolnshire Pride magazine in my local newsagents but I have been told that my poem is in there. I am still putting my thoughts together on the issue of the rapid expansion of windfarms all over the landscape of Lincolnshire. They get a mention in many of my landscape poems as they are now a feature of the landscape whether we like it or not.

An epoch of giant clocks
expand across the
sea and land

Swallowing nature
in their impatient spin
and rapacious span

A meadow of metal petals
are flowers in the wind
petal propellers spinned

A fleet of alien aircraft
have landed in a field of wheat

The noses of a squadron
of spitfires, all routed
to the ground have
nowhere to go,
their egg-shaped engines
sit in feathery clouds
high up in the sky
rolls of hay below

What do they lay ?
When do they sow ?

I tread lightly
as I return to track
from my windy trail
inside a windfarm gale

While a swarm
of swallows
swiftly swoop and sweep
nearby
as if reclaiming
back the sky

Jane Air new twitter account

Hi, my new twitter account is at http://twitter.com/#!/janeaironline

New cartoons coming up for The Cyber Mermaid Cartoon Blog. More on debt, one on the media and one on bureaucracy/ red tape.

The Christmas Crunch Cartoon ; The Ghost of Economic Future ; Debt cartoon

The Ghost of Economic Future. Cartoon inspired by the premonition visitations in 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens. The second cartoon has had an 'ink stamp' effect put on it which I quite like - not too sure where the stars have come but the night sky background works for this cartoon. The cyber mermaid has morphed into a tree decoration.

A Dickensian Christmas for The Cyber Mermaid - Reading Hard Times by Candlelight

Early version. Drawn on the 17 Dec ( no telly ). Will have another cartoon out between Christmas Day and the New Year.