The genuine article
I don’t know who issues Barista’s Licenses. There’s probably an ombudsman of some sort. But based on the brutally burnt dark mass-market roasts available at the majority of UK high street coffee chains, I’d rescind most of them as a matter of course and make people reapply for them. I realise that most baristas are only working with the beans supplied, but someone has to take a stand.
In case anyone’s wondering, yes, apparently a Beef Fizz is a real thing!
Unfortunately, so is a Kale Smoothie!
I can understand kale smoothies, but Beef Fizz seems like one of those things (like Bovril) that couldn’t have been invented by fiction, so reality had to do a little bit of extra heavy lifting.
Of course Dennis Lee has written about it. Of course.
https://foodisstupid.substack.com/p/beef-fizz-and-clam-sweat
It’s best to avoid kale smoothies.
That which does not kale you makes you stronger.
Sandra’s wound up like a spring, as would be any right-handed archer with their right foot forward. (I’ve tried, there’s really some tension there).
So much expression in Lottie’s eyes here!
Uh-0h! Hamper territory.
No hamper, I think Sandra’s pose is the end of an extended sweep across the grounds, ending at Lottie, to ensure there were no other interlopers
And Lottie is a very close target so no need to shift her feet yet
It’s a pretty wonky pose she’s in, but it’s spur of the moment so she’s ready to shoot from any position.
I went on the “bad drawings of archery” blog for hours to try to get Sandra right and I still got it wrong, leave this poor bastard alone, he tried.
When it came to archery drawings, you gave it your best shot?
I just went back to the original file, you should see how many times I tried to get this right, I created a lot of compositional problems and still got it completely wrong – I don’t think I could see what I was drawing by the end. I’ll fix it later in the week.
I’m not an archer, but to me, it looks beautiful as it is. You can’t possibly be an expert in everything you draw.
The arrow will work better on the viewer’s side of the bow. (From our viewing angle we should see the entire arrow.) A right-handed archer holds the right-handed bow correctly as shown, but the arrow will be on the OTHER side of the bow.
If she is using a left-handed bow, her pose should be reversed with her right hand in front. But she might just have a left-handed bow and be right-handed, or not really care one way or the other.
So it could be either strange or on purpose, but if you’ve shot for years (and years) it doesn’t look right and it took several minutes of wondering before realizing it.
Sorry for all this! MOST bows are right-handed and the arrow is always on the left side of the bow in that channel where it rests above the left hand. When the bowstring is released, the arrow that was barely touching in that channel is suddenly floating for a few milliseconds as it launches.
Glenn you could write twenty paragraphs like that and it would not help me. I cannot picture ANYTHING in my head. All I can do is look at a photo and hope to translate what i see there to the drawing. If I can’t do that I get into trouble, which is what happened here.
Aleric is right. It looks fine the way it is.
Haha I changed it!
Hah! I still have the original on the Patreon pdf, and you can’t take it away from me!
Haha! The link in the Mastodon post still shows the original, too!
See this is one more area where crossbows prove their worth
“Haha I changed it!”
Thank you, John. My sympathetic pains from her twisted torso are now relieved! (Still the tensions of the whole treacherous story to go…)
Well, you got the “lower” sound effect exactly right.
Beef Fizz: Bovril, ginger ale, lemon juice to go with the Chekhov’s Bovril sequence.
And here I thought it was something disgusting like Bovril and tonic.
I Googled for reviews by people who have actually tried this mixture, and I found a few. The most positive response I could find was: “It’s not the WORST thing I ever drank.”
(drinks it)
(throws up immediately)
(appreciates the improvement in flavour)
Beef fizz sounds almost Victorian.
You gotta fight!
For your right!
For coffee!
I love Peekums & Willie’s love of Lottie.
Id bet they’d love old Pepper too.
They sense that an unwanted Beef Fizz might be in the offing.
P6 is so, so, gorgeous.
And I can’t think of any time I’ve seen Lottie so demure. Wow.
She might be seeing herself at that age when she looks at Lottie
Every time we see Bitsy, I wind up with even more reasons to like her. She is NOT a woman to be underestimated!
She is our port in this mad storm!
Vintage Port! Or Dry White, perhaps
The GOOD sherry.
Points to whoever figured Lottie would turn to Bitsy!
Thanks! I’m really glad to see she did!
Better to turn to Bitsy than to go to pieces!
Every time I look at panel 2, it makes me want to read an entire story (or series) starring Lady Swaledale and Sandra.
Yes. Sandra looks to be alarmingly competent. Probably in a number of… interesting… skills.
There will always be an England!!!
clearly British dogs, seeing how they cannot open their mouths without speaking of the RAF
never in the ‘ist’ry ‘as so much bin ohd by so many ter so few, m8
Excitable little pups. Real spitfires!
I see what you did there.
And their recognition of the contribution by Wives and Girlfriends
I wonder what Beate would do if Lottie simply… didn’t show up.
It’s so unlike Lottie that I can easily imagine it driving Beate up a wall overthinking trying to figure out Lottie’s super-secret clever plan.
In the meantime, Claire works free of her bonds and Glom and Dean subdue her
Why would Glom and Dean want to subdue Claire?
I’ll get my coat
To prevent her from carrying out her escape plan, which involves setting the van on fire?
I’ll bet Glurn will learn about Claire’s pyromaniacal (is that a word?) past before Lottie does.
Cheers for Peekums & Willie (and a handy Barista’s License, no matter how illicit it might be!)
Is Bitsy perhaps speaking from personal experience when she talks about fast drivers and the ditch (albeit non-metaphorically for her)? She doesn’t seem to be the type to rely upon a chauffeur (unless they are Parker).
Also, John’s ability to draw white blobby dogs has improved immensely.
Sandra with a bow in her hands seems lethal. Good thing Bitsy believe in Willie and Peekums. Lottie did the good thing going to her, last panel is so sweet.
Panel 2: The detective power of cute doggos to determine friend or foe.
Panel 5: The healing power of cute doggos who are excited to see you no matter how bad your day has been so far.
Peekums and Willie are in the running for best supporting actors for this case.
You must have been holding on to The Real Charlotte for a lonnnng time.
Haha, I’d never heard of the book until right now!
It’s a good book!
> I don’t know who issues Barista’s Licenses. There’s probably an ombudsman of some sort. But based on the brutally burnt dark mass-market roasts available at the majority of UK high street coffee chains, I’d rescind most of them as a matter of course and make people reapply for them.
John, I’d think any café called Bean There employing the “coffee snob’s coffee snob” barista (Lottie) as in
https://badmachinery.com/comic/2022-07-20/
DEFINITELY belongs to a much different and super‑secret barista guild than any of the meh high‑street coffee chains…
Also this gem:
THIS JOKER ASKED FOR A ZABAGLIONE! NO ZABAGLIONES BEFORE 9AM. THE YOLKS ARE NOT YET UP TO ROOM TEMPERATURE!!!
Soda water and sparkling water facing off in a fizz beef
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