Twilight Years with The Totterings
With insightful musings on modern life, good humoured marital anecdotes, and a pair of delightfully untrainable dogs, Annie Tempest’s cartoon series Tottering by Gently is both irresistibly funny and charmingly heart-warming. This winter, Reindeer Antiques is delighted to host a pre-Christmas exhibition of Tempest’s original watercolours, Twilight Years with the Totterings.
Tottering prints and Tempest’s latest book, Twilight Years with the Totterings, are also on display, alongside a series of fine bone china mugs decorated with some of her most well-loved cartoons, handcrafted in England by Xavier Britain.
Inspired by Annie Tempest’s childhood in Broughton Hall in West Yorkshire, Tottering by Gently follows the bizarre, chaotic, yet charmingly idyllic lives of the two main characters, Daffy and Dicky. Ensconced at their fictional, somewhat dilapidated home of Tottering Hall, Daffy and Dicky (Lady and Lord Tottering) are perpetually accompanied by their dogs, Slobber and Scribble. Forever underfoot, the two dogs more often than not take centre stage, as Daffy and Dick navigate their advancing age with silliness, grace, and good-humoured fun.
Funny, frank, and cleverly rueful, Tottering by Gently has been published in Country Life Magazine since 1993. Annie Tempest is a self-taught artist who originally found success with her cartoon strip, The Yuppies, which ran for over seven years in the Daily Mail and for which she was awarded Strip Cartoonist of the Year in 1989, before going on to draw for Country Life. She constantly draws on her own life and interactions as a source of new ideas, and the quirky originality of Tottering by Gently proves the inexhaustible nature of her creativity.
Regardless of age, Tottering by Gently paintings, prints, books, and mugs make a perfect Christmas present for family and friends, and never fail to make people chuckle. Twilight Years with the Totterings will be on display at Reindeer Antiques until 22nd November, 2025.
Please visit our website here to browse Tottering by Gently prints, mugs, and books.
