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Alex Hughes

@alexhughes.co.uk
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Graphic recorder and ex-cartoonist. Married to the lovely @mazzaclazza.bsky.social and co-run @drawnalism.com as @alex.drawnalism.com alexhughes.co.uk

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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 20/11/2025
Does anyone have any idea what this is? At a conference in Italy, and this ame in the goodie bag (logo on other side). Bit on back slides out to a hook of sorts, bit that swivels round has a felt widget (non-removable) in it. And no, it's not a USB drive.
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 19/11/2025
It's the festive season, so it's that time of year for a Frankfurter...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 25/09/2025
Happy Birthday to my wonderful wife Maria Hughes @mazzaclazza.bsky.social, who is 60 today! ...and yes, the evil moppet below was taken on Maria's first day at school...
Maria Hughes's school photo as an evil moppet
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 25/09/2025
Happy Birthday to my wonderful wife Maria Hughes, who is 60 today! ...and yes, the evil moppet below was taken on Maria's first day at school...
Evil moppet school photo of my lovely wife Maria Hughes
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 01/08/2025
Bought tickets from a machine at New St - which also spat out two unasked-for 'Seat Reservation' tickets. Brum > Euston - fine, although there was plenty of room. Odder though was this one for the second leg... "No specific seat reserved".
"No specific seat reserved"
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 01/08/2025
Waving goodbye to Birmingham and Ozzy as I head off to Herne Bay Cartoon Festival for the weekend...
Ozzy the Bull at New St Station
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 14/07/2025
Is there nothing they won't put LLMs into..?
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 18/12/2024
Another storm, and more substantial bits of The Tree has landed in our and our neighbours' garden. We're on to insurance (doesn't cover fences) and Sandwell Council ("not our problem"). Most of it is still standing and dangerous - who do we get to fix this before there's serious damage or injury?
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 14/12/2024
C-3PHo-Ho-Ho! Joyeux Noel! Visiting the Museum of Cinema and Minatures in Lyon today, heading home later - www.museeminiatureetcinema.fr
 C-3P0 in a Santa hat
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 10/12/2024
Out of the country doing conference stuff again, this time in Lyon. The massive conference centre complex has other amenities - hotels, restaurants, shops... and this place:
Sign on a door in pink neon advertising "Bus Paradise Strip Club".


No, me neither.
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 08/12/2024
Annoyingly, a substantial amount of the rotting, half-dead tree that blocks the sun for much of the summer is still standing.
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 08/12/2024
Well, it finally happened - the tree from two doors down has come down. Took out the fences of 4 gardens, our shed, bench and much of the first tree next door.
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 07/12/2024
This is one of many things wrong with public transport. Elsewhere, a screen on a bus like this might show the next stop, times of future stops, connections with other routes and other useful local information.
Pic of display screen on no. 12 bus in Birmingham, UK
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 06/12/2024
Me in the tepid bath of managed decline.
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 27/11/2024
Just opened up Twitter for the first time in a while, and this ad popped up, which felt quite appropriate...
Screencap of a Twitter advert for Garbage Removal Jobs
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 31/10/2024
Trying something a bit more topical this year, not sure if it works...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 31/08/2024
Well, it only took 25 years, but this landed on my doormat this week - the 12" vinyl version of Pedigree Chump by [spunge] - with artwork by meself. The original release was on CD only, although there was a limited-edition skateboard earlier this year - now in pride of place on our wall.
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 25/11/2023
As the 60th anniversary episode is on tonight, here's a pic of a Dalek along with five rejected #DoctorWho regenerations at BBC Television Centre. Left to right - Robert Duncan, meself, Graham Fowell, Dalek, Royston Robertson and Chris Burke (not pictured - Martin Rowson)
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 06/04/2023
We gonna rock down to...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 12/10/2022
2B or not 2B? ...aaand more clear and unambiguous signage at @NetworkRailBHM @AvantiWestCoast
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 12/10/2022
Green zone? Red Lounge? Or is it Red Zone? Nothing like clear and unambiguous signage, eh, @NetworkRailBHM @AvantiWestCoast ?
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 15/07/2022
The weapons available in the new edition of Cludeo are a little confusing...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 15/05/2021
The obligatory 'I've had my second jab' photo...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 22/04/2021
Well... it's come to this! Many thanks to everyone that has wished me a Happy Birthday - and yes, it's a large, round number (much like myself). M'lovely wife @mazzawoo and I will be celebrating over the weekend. Hopefully we can all catch up again soon!
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 27/02/2021
Jab done... well, the first one at least!
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 20/08/2020
Finally found a dry day to put the second coat of paint on the windowsill and front step. Hope the milkman and delivery drivers see the sign this time...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 30/01/2020
Tonight (for reasons too complicated to go into) I am Dirk Bumann. Just don't ask...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 22/12/2019
Unfortunate book placement in the Bullring today..
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 07/12/2019
Happy Merry Dutchmas! Or something (at Schipol Airport...)
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 11/11/2019
In Bruges... at the Wall of Beers!
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 26/09/2019
Nerd envy...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 26/09/2019
A pic to simultaneously make @mazzawoo happy and angry (for different reasons)...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 03/06/2019
Things you don't often see on trains...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 22/05/2019
In a beer hall in Bucharest if you need me...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 14/05/2019
We're in the Snatch Pub here in Bucharest. Dunno why it's called that...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 30/04/2019
Leaving Prague later thus afternoon, but couldn't visit without popping in to the bar where I proposed to @mazzawoo back in 2011...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 19/04/2019
It's warnings like this that make me wonder if the contents are actually "Fragile". Or, indeed, actually even "Glass"...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 05/04/2019
Am in Madrid. And it's hailing. These are truly the end times...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 08/01/2019
Well done to @nxwestmidlands for this clear, concise, well-designed and not-at-all incomprehensible guide to fare increases...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 25/12/2018
Merry Christmas from @mazzawoo and me!
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 14/10/2018
Hey, @guardian - I'm reasonably sure that's not David Davis...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 11/10/2018
All the cheeses are represented here...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 29/07/2018
On a Metro in Copenhagen... and I'm the driver! Yay!
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 23/07/2018
In Amsterdam, and about to go for a ride on Willy...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 03/07/2018
Apparently there's football on. Or something...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 16/06/2018
Back in Brum and having a green beer at the Woodman whilst awaiting the lovely @mazzawoo
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 15/06/2018
Our Bulgarian BBQ Meat Plateau (sic) for two, from earlier tonight here in Sofia. (Was very tasty...)
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 05/06/2018
This week I'm at another conference for @drawnalism This is my head after day obe...
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 01/06/2018
Guess which airport I'm flying back from tonight..?
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Alex Hughes @alexhughes.co.uk · 23/05/2018
Went to the Museo Galileo here in Florence today. Wasn't expecting to see an actual part of Galileo himself though. This is Galileo's raised middle finger...
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