Hacky McHackensplat, the phlegmiest man in the world

.... that'd be me, then. My weekend consisted of coughing and hacking the contents of my lungs, chest and possible lower bowels up through my jabbering throat. Still don't know what it was but thursday evening I was shivering in bed. I actually thought I was delirious when Emma came through to tell me that Middlesbrough had come back from 3-0 down to beat Basel 4-3 in the Uefa Cup, but turns out it wasn't a fever dream after all- the Boro come good! After Friday, Saturday and Sunday were spent in various back-arched, rib-wracked, convulsing positions, there was no other option but to visit the Doctor's this morning and get loaded up with a nice box of Amoxycilin. Hope those babies take care of the cough as have a long flight to Louisiana to contend with next week- I don't want to be "that annoying coughy bloke on the plane that you just want to hit repeatedly with a heavy, preferably sharp, object".

So it was back to work today. Met up with Mo O'Toole, director of NESTA, for lunch and had prolonged and fascinating conversations about film making, innovation, regional development agencies and funding avenues. Hope we can direct some pennies into the projects via some of those leads. Also got my final tweaked scripts and "synopsicles" from Andrews Mitchell (a fine name) and Smith for the UGLY project. Have meetings in London on Wednesday to force development through on the that one so hope we can move into some animation tests shortly.

No pictures today??? Surely not!!! Well, I have been poorly. OK, I'll see what I can dig out... Right, this is the pencil rough for the Mackinnon & Saunders Xmas Card I did this year, featuring Nine, "Frankenstein's Cat", and Lottie, his bezzie mate. Still my favourite character to draw I have to say. Shall see if I can find the colour version of this to show you too for tomorrow or soonly...