One Sketch 195) #inktober2018 Prompt 6 - Drooling

I really don't want to be cruel
But think I should say, as a rule
That a collie or lab
Is usually fab
Apart from their terrible drool

I once saw a piece of graffiti which said 'Pavlov's dogs drool, ok?!' Well, it made me laugh, but then I was only a kid at the time, I suppose.

One Sketch 194) #inktober2018 Prompt 5 - Chicken

Run, Colonel, run Colonel, run run run
Fetch a semi-automatic gun, gun, gun
That cock's nuts
And boy he hates your guts
Coz you stuck his mum in a bun, bun, bun.
(with apologies to Noel Gay and Ralph Butler)

I just wanted to do something different rather than just drawing a chicken, and this image popped into my head.

One Sketch 193) #inktober2018 day 4 - Prompt - Spell

A wizard, when casting a spell
Just didn't perform very well
He went with a flash
Leaving nothing but ash,
A bang, and a terrible smell.

Yes, it is based on Christopher Lee as Saruman in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 4th Inktober Prompt, and I just noticed a little earlier that we're rapidly approaching the 200 days mark. Yippee!

One Sketch #192) #inktober2018 Day 3 - Roasted - Roasting Chestnuts

I think that you couldn't rebut
The fact that it must take some guts
To stand in the street
And ask folk to eat
Their fill of your steaming hot nuts

The roast chicken route was just too obvious for this prompt. I did a sketch a couple of months back based on a photo of a chestnuts seller from about a century ago, and I did say then that you could still see chestnut sellers with their braziers in the centre of London when I was a young boy in the late 60s. Unless memory fails me, I think that the last time I saw one would possibly have been New Year's Eve 1981.

One Sketch #191) #inktober2018 Day 2 - Tranquil

Sleep,

And dream of bones,

Chewed slippers

And walks.

Actually, like yesterday I could have included another tram sketch, but I thought I'd continue to share with you my inktober sketches. This is what I came up with for the prompt 'tranquil'. My blank Christmas cards arrived yesterday, so it occurs to me that I'm going to be wanting to go into production of this year's cards pretty soon. 

One Sketch #190) #inktober2018 Prompt 1 Poisonous

Scorpions - nasty wee things
Just think of the pain that they brings
They scuttle around
On the dry sandy ground
Just waiting to strike with their stings

Yes, it's the first day of inktober. Basically, if you take part you get 31 prompts - one for each day of the month - and commit to producing an ink sketch each day of the month. I heard about the event right on the last day of October 2017, too late to take part then. But for now, it's absolutely perfect! (BTW, I DID sketch another tram today as well, of the Great Orme Tramway. But I decided to give you all a day off, even if I didn't take one.)

Sketch #189) Manx Electric Railway

Guaranteed to make me smile
Old fashioned trams
On the three legged Isle.

Now, if you look on Wikipedia, which is my internet encyclopedia of choice, for some reason it doesn't include the Manx Electric Railway on the Isle of Man. The only reason I can think for this is the fact that it isn't a city tramway. I mean, yes, it is called a railway, but surely the vehicles like the ones in the picture are tramcars. Doesn't matter, anyway. I may be wrong, but I think that the Manx Railway is the world's oldest which is still using its original cars. This year, 2018, it's actually celebrating the 125th anniversary of it's opening in 1893. Fair play.