doodle 9 - romeo & juliet

It's literally three weeks 'till I finish work and I become unemployed..........eep

However, I'm still responsible for encouraging 32 year 10s to tackle a tricky Shakespeare assessement in the next two of those weeks.

On that subject, I was inspired by the fact that Romeo and Juliet is often looked at as Shakespeare's most romantic play.

I couldn't agree LESS.  

It is crammed with double entendres and blatant graphic sex references.

Could anyone tell me why Romeo is held by many people as the embodiment of romance?

Romeo, romantic?

Not when he's offering gold to Rosaline to 'ope her lap', he ain't.

Bearing my view of Romeo's character in mind, the possiblilty of him crossed him with Leslie 'Well, Hellooo'  Phillips didn't seem too far a leap.

 The doodle you see below is my version of how the balcony should have gone if Romeo Phillips had been doing the biz.

Romeo and Juliet Ding Dong

 Such fun!

Tinkety Tonk

paper + card = congratulations card

My colleagues are all desperate to leave our place of work 

(a secondary school on the Isle of Wight, if everyone is interested).

I've handed my notice in sans new job but a colleague has secured another job -woo hoo!

We share a love of musical theatre and we've both played Reno Sweeny in Anything Goes (about 10 years ago and really badly in my case) and I wanted to show her how pleased  was for her.

She has only every taught at our current school and I want her to experience the nice side of teaching somewhere else, obviously.

I conceived the design from a sweetest occasion post that I found and I put my own spin on it.

 I used a phrase from a song in Anything Goes 

I started with some white pen as above then went over it in felt tipped pen.

I'm not sure which I prefer.

Plain white:

 or with a retro colour style:

What do you think, eh?

Tinkety Tonk