I found today’s rhyme Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes to be an interesting example of how the language changes… I’d never even seen wanton as a noun before… and even then I think i’m going to have to crack open my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In today’s rhyme, “Miss One, Two, and Three I was briefly confused by what a tea caddy was getting it mixed up with a tea cart when it turned out to be something completely different. Since woman gathering around an actual tea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ll be completely honest that today’s rhyme, The Village of Erith, made no sense at all. I have the sneaking suspicion it started out as a riddle. To make matters worse, in my confusion I got loom the verb mixed up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme “There Was a Man So Wise” was fun to do. While just as silly as the last one at least there was something for me to work with. Really the only thing I needed to check out was if brambles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, Little Jenny Flinders, was pretty straightforward, other than the problem of going period or not (when a poem involves child abuse, it’s safer to go period) From there it was quickly looking up what children wore in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, A Robin Redbreast in a Cage, was really easy to visualize, though I ended up overthinking it anyway. First I went on line looking for a visual reference for a European Robin, first because these are English nursery rhymes,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For most of these sketches I’ve been trying to do period, not that I know much about 17th century England, but for ones like today’s rhyme, I Had Two Pigeons Bright and Gay, I just couldn’t. I’m perfectly aware that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe it was because a slow start today but I couldn’t figure out what the context of today’s rhyme, A Little Man From Derby, could possibly be. Fortunately I had plenty of options in our present context and went with snooty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, “Before her Old Grandmother” made little sense to me and I’m pretty sure I misunderstood it completely… frankly I think it’s another orphaned song verse.
Today’s rhyme “If You’ve a Mole Above Your Chin” is another one that seems to lead itself to very quick cartoons… otherwise you have nothing to work with… After that the only difficult part of this sketch was trying to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
