Locked out of the Pentameters performance space at the
Horseshoe, Hampstead, they continue to run groups and
play music in other community spaces.
They’re also putting their talents to social commentary,
by producing a series of cartoon stories, comic illustrations
and words, Dunking Doodles, the adventures of
Sabrina, Sam and Staffy. They’ve produced more
than fifty doodles. They comprise four stories…or is it
more? …or is it less?
Here’s another twelve doodles, being presented in a random
order over the next month or so.
Hence, as in the 1971 Morcambe and Wise sketch, performed
in the same year that Pentameters started at the Horseshoe,
you’ll see we’ve given you ‘all the right cartoons, but not
necessarily in the right order’.* (PS, below)
See if you can reconstruct the stories, once all the cartoons
and words have been published.
Christopher
Turning away from the screen, I close my eyes,
refusing to be manipulated by politicians,
beautiful women, or speeding, trumpeting cars. Dd1
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Léonie & Godfrey 2025
Sabrina celebrates on her unicycle with Sam, Staffy and flowers! Dd2
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Godfrey & Léonie 2025
Sabrina and Sam start to dance, while Staffy waits to join in. Dd3
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Léonie & Godfrey 2025
Sabrina dreams that Sam’s submarine has been invaded by a giant octopus Dd4
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Godfrey & Léonie 2025
Is it a balloon? Or an apple? No! It is a question mark.
”Will you marry me?”
Dd5a
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Léonie & Godfrey 2025
With our music and fruit, we begin to grow old gracefully,
Overlooked by a sleeping, and a waking, crow. Dd5b
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Godfrey & Léonie 2025
Cheers, Honky Tonk Woman,
while you bring out the performing puppet, large dog,
and pianist, with a gun barrel coming out of his hat. Dd6
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Léonie & Godfrey 2025
Cheers. Enjoy your meal before you sail! Dd7
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Godfrey & Léonie 2025
Sabrina’s dream lover shoots by her, like a lightning flash,
Disappearing into the ether, where a spaceship is waiting. Dd8
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Léonie & Godfrey 2025
Is it a snake, twisted key, or your dog’s lead?
Be careful how you answer.
I am here on a police assignment. Dd12
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Godfrey & Léonie 2025
We have arrived on the island to find two dogs guarding
The Sacred Manuscripts Dd14
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Léonie & Godfrey 2025
Memories of an idyllic summer on a faraway island,
Surrounded by the sea and sunshine. Dd22
Pentameters: Dunking Doodles © Godfrey & Léonie 2025
PS
· Above all, for anyone alive in 1971, André Previn was “Mr Preview” in the greatest of all Morecambe and Wise sketches.Previn had to keep a straight face when Morecambe sat down to massacre Grieg’s Piano Concerto. And then he was on the receiving end of perhaps the greatest one-liner our greatest television comedian ever delivered: “You’re playing all the wrong notes.” Morecambe stood up, squared up to the diminutive conductor, seized him by the lapels of his dinner jacket, and said: “I’m playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.”
· At that sublime moment, two mutually exclusive worlds briefly coalesced. That is why the sketch was so memorable that decades later, when taxi drivers caught sight of him, they would call out “Mr Preview!” It has never happened again. They don’t make comedians like Eric Morecambe any more. And they don’t make musicians like André Previn either.
www.thearticle.com/andre-previn-and-mr-preview-not-necessarily-in-the-right-order/
Bravo Leonie and Godfree…
Comment by Stephen Lyons on 30 August, 2025 at 12:07 pmThese are all very good.. Strangely, amongst a whole heap of creative ventures I am up to is a series of “Dog interviews”
People really like them. I have an artist illustrating them – to be completed and resulting in a book. You God-free have done
cartoons that would have fitted my criteria really well. Maybe next time?
Best wishes on finding a venue to replace your last place. I communicated with Leonie’s relative recently and suggested you try to find a rich Hampstead patreon, I may be hard but not impossible.
Blessing to you both
Steve Lyons.
As a longstanding friend, I am bowled over by Leonie & Godfrey, s talent adversity of nasty circumstances, they have triumphed
Comment by Annette Jones on 4 September, 2025 at 8:43 am