{"id":4858,"date":"2017-01-02T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2017-02-04T09:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T09:52:39","slug":"paul-davies-and-a-happy-new-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2017\/01\/02\/paul-davies-and-a-happy-new-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Davies &#8211; and a Happy New Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since I first made contact with Paul Davies back in the Spring to ask about the 12 covers he produced for <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Thomas%20etc\/ThomasDavies.htm\">Leslie Thomas <\/a><\/span>titles we&#8217;ve emailed on and off about various things. Just before Christmas Paul was generous enough to give me one of his cartoons he drew for the book <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Thomas%20etc\/Missing.htm\">&#8216;Some Missing Persons&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PDBookshop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PDBookshop2-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"pdbookshop2\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PDBookshop2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PDBookshop2.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was so pleased it was the one depicting &#8216;The Bookshop Owner&#8217;, unfortunately a fast disappearing breed. Paul has a<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldaviescartoons.co.uk\/\">website<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">showing many examples of his work and also a very amusing<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/pauldaviescartoons.files.wordpress.com\">blog<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think we have a similar sense of humour and I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting\u00a0him in the New Year, either up here or down in Cheltenham where he is having an exhibition in August. This makes a change as it seemed all the people connected with PAN in some way live in London or down south on the coast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PD-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"pd\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PD-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PD-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PD-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PD.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On a different note while trying to find something to watch on TV on Boxing Day I came across a BBC &#8216;Countryfile&#8217; compilation on James Herriot where you had to look carefully, blink and you missed it,\u00a0to see\u00a0a clip showing a pile of Herriot PAN editions plus a couple of mugs. I&#8217;ve added\u00a0a screenshot of it\u00a0to my <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/AsSeenOnTV.htm\">&#8216;As Seen on TV&#8217; <\/a><\/span>page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are now into 2017 and so I&#8217;ll wish you all the best with many happy hours finding and sorting those PANs, maybe this will be the year I\u00a0get that elusive last title!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I first made contact with Paul Davies back in the Spring to ask about the 12 covers he produced for Leslie Thomas titles we&#8217;ve emailed on and off about various things. Just before Christmas Paul was generous enough to give me one of his cartoons he drew for the book &#8216;Some Missing Persons&#8217; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}