Hello hello

Happy New Year! I can't quite get to grips with the idea that this time last year, I was promising myself that 2009 would be 'career' year, where I quit my animation job (done!) and forged a roaringly successful fully freelance career as an illustrator and animator, making fabulous films for glitzy clients etc. etc. (not quite done!). I think I had a good year but I have spent a lot of time relying on existing things, such as my wonderful agent, to get new work in. Time for change! Time for progress (she says...)! Well, I can only try, right?

How was your holiday? I had a great time in Yorkshire where the snow was packed down to treacherous ice, then with my family in Birmingham where I ate too much pork, and finally in Dorset for New Year where I ate more pork, drank too much cognac and saw lots of my lovely friends. Driving home to Essex last night was tiring and long, but under a magnificent yellow moon it wasn't so bad.

Did I take any photos? Not one. Not a sausage; the reason being that, as usual, I forgot my camera. Idiot.

I will be back with something more inspiring on Monday. I am actually at my desk today because I have to draw some more cartoon lungs (don't ask) before everyone else goes back to work.