This doodle is dedicated to anyone who should be studying DNA helicase but is, in fact, reading a bad romance novel (it doesn’t count if you’re doing it standing!). Serious-minded alien sidekick is optional.

This is to all the trees out there that *aren’t* Christmas trees: you’re beautiful too!

 

When people tell me to imagine I am holding a ball of energy (admittedly not often!) I like to imagine a glowy spherical cat instead.

 

 

So it’s definitely heading towards that time of the year, and what says Christmas better than Mary&baby riding a plesiosaur?*

Well, a certain saboteur of all my life’s ambitions says Santa Claus, on the basis that this would simplify my colour scheme a thousandfold so that I might actually be able to finish the wretched thing, rather than having to post aborted attempts and spending fruitless hours upon hours on a single doodle. But my heart is set on Mary, so somehow I must find a way to reconcile all the Mary-blue with the Christmas-red-and -green; or decide if a red-and-green Mary would still be recognisable as such; or some other solution that evades me just now. And if I draw Santa riding a plesiosaur after this, I still maintain Mary is better. So there.

 

*Yes yes, just like Hildgeard of Bingen doing the same means Thanksgiving, I have shamelessly recycled from a previous doodle, but not many people know her and I really like this image! In principle. When the colours work.

Something to remember for this time of year: umbrellas are awesome! And won’t try to eat you. Usually.

My very wise and small niece, in response to the (to my mind) somewhat odd homework question “What makes a good friend?”, promptly answered “Not a fly.” Being asked to elaborate, she added “Not papayas”.

I like to think that this bird and this fly will be very good friends, and that if one of them is eaten it will be in a very friendly way.

Snail angel. Like a snow angel but … not.