Pipkins

I have a memory of watching Pipkins (I’m pretty sure it was Pipkins, anyway) after coming back from Sunday School.

We (me, A, M?) were sitting in the living room in BC.  On the programme, they were demonstrating how to design/write a word where the letters of the word illustrated the word itself.

Either the word they used as an example was “hospital”, or I decided to use that word myself.  So I got to work at D’s desk, cleverly drawing (with felt pens) the word letter by letter.  In order to reflect the “idiom”, each letter was drawn in its own bandages.

I must have spent a good half an hour drawing the word. I remember M&D being impressed with the finished article, although a concluding observation that I’d missed out the “s” didn’t go down well.  A characteristic furious violent (but brief) display followed, and the artwork was torn up and binned.

Bloody hopital – stupid idea anyway…