ANDY SPARROW'S JOURNAL
2004 - 2005

THIS PAGE IS LIKE MY DIARY, EXCEPT LESS EXPLICIT.
IT'S A BLOG IN ITS BACK-TO-FRONT, UPSIDE-DOWN STRUCTURE:
(NEWEST AT THE TOP) WHICH PLEASES MY LEFT-HANDED SENSIBILITIES

NOVEMBER 2005
Am scanning more of my archive and found this beermat/towel that I illustrated for the TT in the Eighties.
Those aren't beer stains, it's just old!
Will add more old stuff soon.

OCTOBER 2005
Been away on my Honeymoon!
You can now call me Mr Sparrow

SEPTEMBER 2005
Hurrah! My pathetic quest to beat all other Andy Sparrows
in the Google search stakes has finally come to fruition.
I am number One (for this month anyway) Doh!

AUGUST 2005
I'm sculpting this month. It's great to rekindle an old love.
Plus I like getting my hands dirty once in a while.
I'd love to show you a picture of what I'm sculpting
but it's a confidential commission.
So if I did, I'd have to kill you.
This a new avatar I made for myself for a forum.

JULY 2005
Been on holiday, planning my pagan wedding,
on one of the most magical beaches on Earth.
Can you believe this is Cornwall?

JUNE 2005
I've moved the site onto a more stable server which doesn't have Frontpage extensions, so I've had to dump the Feedback forms for now as they weren't emailing me any results. If anyone knows the code I need to make this happen please email me.

MAY 2005
I've finished Doppelgangers! Or at least, the rest of the story is there for you to read. I'm afraid I'm so pushed for time that I haven't been able to illustrate it. But I was so desperate to get it out of me, that I've put the rest of the script up and I shall illustrate it when things calm down. So what do you think?

APRIL 2005
I've had this awful flu. It's the first time I've been ill in years and it really knocked me for six. On the plus side I bought an amazing under-seat exhaust for my bike! Not as noisy as I hoped but still fantastic. What do you think? Next I'm going to fit a fat R1100S back wheel with a 190 tyre, then start on the front end. 180 methinks. Know anyone who could carve me some extra-wide yokes out of aluminium?

JAN 2005
Happy new Ear! What did you get for Christmas? I got socks. Made a pilgrimage to Amsterdam during the holidays. It was just as beautiful as when I lived there and seemingly a little more civilized.
NOV 2004
This is the moment Bean found out that the Smartcar she was 'test' driving was actually hers. My daughter got a first in Psychology and we wanted to reward her for her effort [and take that scooter off her at the same time!]
          
OCT 2004
This is what I want for Christmas, if you've got an old one you don't need anymore, knocking about in your attic. I drove a normal Land Rover across the Sahara desert many years ago, and we slung a trial bike on the back for fun. It was amazing!
Maybe I'm having a mid-life crisis? Trying to recapture my youth? Nah, I'd buy a Porsche and an R1 if that was the case.
SEPT 2004
In between storyboarding, I've done another page for www.globalcomicjam.com where artists from all over the world each write & draw
a page in a continuing story. Very interesting, the way the story veers as a new perspective
is bought to it.
AUGUST 2004
I've been working far too hard and not had time to add anything to the site in the last few months. But I am about to take a holiday and I'm going to learn to paraglide. Am quite excited!

JULY 2004
I've bought a new moby. The XDAII does everything including play music through the earbuds while I'm burning around, and answer calls automatically. Unfortunately, unlike my Nokia, it doesn't work with the Autocom headset, so I'm hunting around for a way of amplifying the sound in my lid. Any ideas?
I discovered that it's powerful enough that it doesn't need amplification, so I bought a pair of flat-ish Sennheisers and got them attached to the XDA wire. There's a great place that does it close to me called Fuselodge 020 8994 6275 fuse.lodge@virgin.net
They've done about eight pairs for all my friends with XDAs and would be happy to hear from you.

MAY 2004
The  plan for this month is to bring back Doppelgangers in a different format. What I was thinking was I would use more words and less visuals. I know this sounds disappointing to some of you, but it's such a cracking story that I just want to get it out there! Then I'll draw more pictures and tweak it over the next year or so, just like l did with l.N.K. (I know; some of you who followed I.N.K. as I drew it probably won't have realized it has changed. That's the great thing about this medium: It's not like a book or a film; it can change daily if the creator so chooses.
APRIL 2004
I've bought myself a new bike: It's a monster! I needed something capable of travelling further than the other side of London and had always wanted to try the BMW  with the neat suspension.
There's no dive under braking and it's surprisingly chuckable. I love it.
(Point of information: DON'T use and@bloodrunners.com as my email address anymore)
FEBRUARY 2004
I gave a dear friend of mine, Docky, an old PC recently and once we'd sorted the intricacies of email, he started sending me his experiments with the keyboard. Find it HERE.
JANUARY 2004
Happy new year! I've had such a busy year that I realize I haven't done any  work on Doppelgangers in six months. I think one reason is that I've decided I'm not happy with the format and want to change it. Thus I'm taking down the link from the menu and will