The Dogs' B******S

Don't you sometimes wonder why we do it?

Thanks to the cartoonist Gregory.

Oi Punk! Toothpaste Girls In Town

I wrote here about my niece Julia (in the white shades) who is a member of the sensational girl band Las Kellies from Argentina. The world tour included Barcelona, Berlin, Paris and most recently here in London at The Urban Bar in Whitechapel and Trinity Church in Bristol. Their indie punk sound and cheerleading style guarantees a reaction which manifests itself in dancing .. even in Paris which is some kind of a record. I saw them dressed as cave girls with papier maché bones in their hair, but I *love* the toothpaste look.

*Interior Design* note : The Kellies' number OLD MAN features a very moving tablescape in this Video

This is a drawing I did of Julia when we were on holiday in June in France

Here is one of her drawings from her UGLY BUNNY oeuvre

Credit: Toothpaste girls from http://www.flickr.com/photos/obenson

Ugly Bunnies and then No More Fluffy Tails

This is the last of the bunnies on Rose C'est La Vie for a long time. I can't believe I've had such an animal cluster when I would rather not be thought of as 'an animal lover'. Some mistake surely.

My clever niece Julia alias 'Betty Confetti' lives in Buenos Aires. Performance artist and musician, she is witty, subversive and occasionally enigmatic. Her girl band called The Kellies are riotous and knowingly faintly daft and I look forward to their British tour in July.



Julia, the Colgate Toothpaste girl, has developed her Ugly Bunnies over the years and I present them here.



Yin Yang

Definitely a good place for parties


Not Everything is black and white


Love Me


Love is Weird


Desperate phone call




Hard core
Drugged Bunny

British Cartoons of the 1950s

[Sorry if the quality here is not too brilliant. Try double clicking for a bigger image]

'Good Heavens Lavinia! It says here the East Wing was burned down last night'

Michael ffolkes 1950

'The roof garden was perhaps a mistake' Shelia Dunn 1957

'Poor Henry misses so much being deaf' Kenneth Mahood 1953

'Are you sure we brought him?' Sheila Dunn 1950




'Last year it was seaweed flies' George Sprod 1954

All these cartoons taken from 'The Best of Punch Cartoons' Ed. Helen Walasek, published Prion 2008