QUOTE (The Hatter @ Oct 20 2013, 08:25 PM)
Dad used to get the Annual every Christmas, gave a good couple of hours pleasure Boxing Day. One really stuck in my mind, through a kitchen window, the Giles Dad, in the garden just finishing painting a name on an upturned boat. He'd clearly not realised his painting was upside down. All around the usual Giles mayhem, and Mum washing up saying to a daughter 'he's been all weekend at that, best not tell him yet.
Yes, I remember that one. Typical Giles humour.
Boats were a big theme of his. The RNLI had several Giles cartoons for their Christmas cards. My favourite boat cartoon has a chap sanding down his boat with one of those rotary attachments for an electric drill, and he's just drilled a whole right through the hull with it. I think of that every time I see sailing boats in dry dock.