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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who are wary about travelling past their garden gate.

A 6.6 on my meter of confusion this morning.

In the great metropolis of Tilehurst we have rain, diluted with more rain. Our rain is wetter than your rain so there, whoops slipped into 3rd childhood mode again :) .
Fellow posters on this thread I wonder if your day will be filled with tea, koffy, painting and other nefarious deeds.
I do hope so.
definately koffy:hilarious:
 
Morning, ZA Winners.:)

Temp 36.4
FBG 6.1,,ho hum.

Traffic this morning above yesterdays but still low on the previous days of late.

Sore throat and cough not resurfaced today, so that's nice.

For those maybe planning to go back to work soon
a little guidance re pets maybe of interest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world...virus-what-will-happen-to-pets-after-lockdown

From A wet rainy Capital.
enjoy your days as best you can.
 
18.06.2020
FBG 5.6
Making yet another attempt to buy cauliflower this morning.
Sausage and chips not doing BG any favours.

Edited to add:
Finding myself reluctant to go out today. This would be third time out in a week, not used to going out even once in two weeks. It feels scary.
Am reassessing potential for visit to UK.
Maybe I don't really want to go? Even if it would be lovely to see family.

There are so many conflicting mixed emotions in all this @SlimLizzy

Just take your time with your thinking...
 
Fellow posters on this thread I wonder if your day will be filled with tea, koffy, painting and other nefarious deeds
No tea! But the rest is all fine in my book. I'm assuming getting soaked on bike, fitting new loft hatch, ordered one in the end on Mrs MC instructions a polite way of saying the one I built is Rubbish, don't ask, all come under nefarious.

My third painting in the big sky series is based on yesterday's late storm. Late afternoon sun lighting up the Plateau on Wolseley Estates before they drop into Tha Vale of Trent. Watercolour A4 45 minutes to paint and some drying time.
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No tea! But the rest is all fine in my book. I'm assuming getting soaked on bike, fitting new loft hatch, ordered one in the end on Mrs MC instructions a polite way of saying the one I built is Rubbish, don't ask, all come under nefarious.

My third painting in the big sky series is based on yesterday's late storm. Late afternoon sun lighting up the Plateau on Wolseley Estates before they drop into Tha Vale of Trent. Watercolour A4 45 minutes to paint and some drying time.
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Magnificent sky.

Definitely a heavy sky carrying rain.

I am waiting for our rain to stop so I can go outside to do my last squared painting...or shall I put a parasol up and test its waterproofness...
 
No tea! But the rest is all fine in my book. I'm assuming getting soaked on bike, fitting new loft hatch, ordered one in the end on Mrs MC instructions a polite way of saying the one I built is Rubbish, don't ask, all come under nefarious.

My third painting in the big sky series is based on yesterday's late storm. Late afternoon sun lighting up the Plateau on Wolseley Estates before they drop into Tha Vale of Trent. Watercolour A4 45 minutes to paint and some drying time.
View attachment 42168
Very much enjoying the artwork just lately young sir. For me not so much the skies as, I think you would agree, I am spoilt for big sky in Fenworld. I love the colours, smell, stillness and comforting I imagine I would feel from the land. Just enough people around for me. Now I'm homesick but blessed to have spent so much time there. Would love to be walking the pups listening to Faure's requim there. Cheery soul ain't I?
 
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Would love to be walking the pups listening to Faure's requim there. Cheery soul ain't I?
The great key of D minor, it's not the darkest of requiems so Cheery sounds about right. For me the great Mozarts requiem again in D minor however I would probably choose Franz Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words (Opus 51) String quartet on such a stormy day especially the manic last movement.

Thank you for your appreciation of my painting efforts.
 
Magnificent sky.

Definitely a heavy sky carrying rain.

I am waiting for our rain to stop so I can go outside to do my last squared painting...or shall I put a parasol up and test its waterproofness...
Thankyou. I think you are being optimistic with the parasol.
 
good afternoon all :)

4.3 yesterday and 4.5 today

I need to get back to posting every day.

shopping day yesterday after mum's banking day the day before :sorry: Rather more people about when we were shopping, one of the staff in Lidl was grumping to the socially distanced customer before us about a group he'd served the day before, he thought they were holiday makers up from England (we're still in lockdown in Scotland), they couldn't be bothered with social distancing or queueing, no masks and the kids running about picking up things and then just putting them down again on the wrong shelves and barging up and down the aisles :( he was seriously not amused.

When we delivered mum's shopping she 'mentioned' that the bottom had fallen out of one of the drawers in the kitchen (and we all know what kitchen drawers have in them right? everything :hilarious:). mr gee had to fire up the glue gun whilst I washed and sorted the drawer contents. Got the drawer fixed and just as we were leaving mum laid it upon us that she needs to go into town again on Friday to get her medications :banghead: It's been a funny week ;)

Today we've been doing battle with a spiky bush in the garden so we could begin trying to fix the fencing behind it.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - the experiments continue :) more interesting and colourful results from you, it's seems like a good and productive way of taking a new look at materials.

@Muddy Cyclist - there isn't one of your clouds paintings I'm not in awe of. You do such strong skies, makes me want to do more work on trying to improve mine :)

art work catchup - both just over A5 size.

no 1, now you can see why I need to work on skies :D:hilarious:
upload_2020-6-18_17-8-4.jpeg
no 2 - still trying out how to do tree foliage, not too bad but I think it ended up a bit linear.
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art work catchup - both just over A5 size, now you can see why I need to work on Skies.
But what a fantastic sea.

Great effort, there is some very good brushwork in both of these and your composition is always very good.

Thank you for your comments on my skies, I have days when they just become a muddy mess, I'm in a good run with them at the moment but who knows when that will change and they become disastrous. :)
 
good afternoon all :)

4.3 yesterday and 4.5 today

I need to get back to posting every day.

shopping day yesterday after mum's banking day the day before :sorry: Rather more people about when we were shopping, one of the staff in Lidl was grumping to the socially distanced customer before us about a group he'd served the day before, he thought they were holiday makers up from England (we're still in lockdown in Scotland), they couldn't be bothered with social distancing or queueing, no masks and the kids running about picking up things and then just putting them down again on the wrong shelves and barging up and down the aisles :( he was seriously not amused.

When we delivered mum's shopping she 'mentioned' that the bottom had fallen out of one of the drawers in the kitchen (and we all know what kitchen drawers have in them right? everything :hilarious:). mr gee had to fire up the glue gun whilst I washed and sorted the drawer contents. Got the drawer fixed and just as we were leaving mum laid it upon us that she needs to go into town again on Friday to get her medications :banghead: It's been a funny week ;)

Today we've been doing battle with a spiky bush in the garden so we could begin trying to fix the fencing behind it.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@gennepher - the experiments continue :) more interesting and colourful results from you, it's seems like a good and productive way of taking a new look at materials.

@Muddy Cyclist - there isn't one of your clouds paintings I'm not in awe of. You do such strong skies, makes me want to do more work on trying to improve mine :)

art work catchup - both just over A5 size.

no 1, now you can see why I need to work on skies :D:hilarious:
View attachment 42170
no 2 - still trying out how to do tree foliage, not too bad but I think it ended up a bit linear.
View attachment 42171
Thank you @geefull

I love your sea though :) It is very effective.
You do do some good skies.

I absolutely love number 2 with the foreground leading you to the distance...to the village or farm on the hill.
 
One of those days today.

I tried out my new mask design in the shops today, and it is very effective. It does not knock off my cochlear processor, nor does it knock my glasses off. And neither does it fall down when I talk. The conventional N95 mask does knock both of those off, and I have nearly lost a very expensive Cochlear Speech Processor a few times.

But in B&M, the shop near me, it was hot and humid. Last year it was impossible in there to breathe, and in the end they got some industrial blowers, which achieved nothing. The industrial blowers blew all the breath out of you. They are certainly not going to be able to use those this year with covid 19. B&M needed something today. It was so hot.

Also they have changed around the entire store. the food was in one section before, as soon as you walked in, a week or so ago. Now, the food is spread in various parts of the store (and it is a very large store), and so combined with a one way system the whole thing was a nightmare. No one could find anything. I couldn't. So, obviously none of us are observing the one way system, because it simply wasn't doable. I only had a small list of stuff, but I could only get a couple of things. I couldn't find my other stuff I wanted. The cat stuff had been moved, and reorganised as well. I did get some cat litter, but one bag burst as I got to the till. Making a massive mess, and they had no more cat litter to replace it. I did manage to get two device chargers and leads, because my chargers (well the Goodman's ones I got a couple of years ago are not charging well now).

All the shoppers were bewildered as to where anything was. The food was spread over to about 20 different (or more) illogical destinations all over the store. For example crisps were in the gardening section???? One person, a woman, kept asking me, "Have you seen the Weetabix yet?" every time we crossed paths. "No, sorry" I said, "Have you seen my coffee yet?" I asked back. It was literally a farce, almost funny actually. And not an assistant in sight.

I fell asleep when I got home, I was exhausted. Slept for 3 hours...

Too tired to do the painting I wanted to do. It is still massively raining. I used a digital app to do a quick painting of the garden from my window, and with the parasol in it on the right. Then, I took a photo of the view through my bedroom glass door. I superimposed it over the painting, on the left. Then I tried a few more apps, making different effects on the picture, until I said it was finished for me. This is my best tired effort for a creative painting for today.

So, I had a bit of fun with this.

I need to go back to sleep. I just want to sleep...

I will peek in when I wake up later...

So here is today's digital painting combined with the photographic view from my bed.


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One of those days today.

I tried out my new mask design in the shops today, and it is very effective. It does not knock off my cochlear processor, nor does it knock my glasses off. And neither does it fall down when I talk. The conventional N95 mask does knock both of those off, and I have nearly lost a very expensive Cochlear Speech Processor a few times.

But in B&M, the shop near me, it was hot and humid. Last year it was impossible in there to breathe, and in the end they got some industrial blowers, which achieved nothing. The industrial blowers blew all the breath out of you. They are certainly not going to be able to use those this year with covid 19. B&M needed something today. It was so hot.

Also they have changed around the entire store. the food was in one section before, as soon as you walked in, a week or so ago. Now, the food is spread in various parts of the store (and it is a very large store), and so combined with a one way system the whole thing was a nightmare. No one could find anything. I couldn't. So, obviously none of us are observing the one way system, because it simply wasn't doable. I only had a small list of stuff, but I could only get a couple of things. I couldn't find my other stuff I wanted. The cat stuff had been moved, and reorganised as well. I did get some cat litter, but one bag burst as I got to the till. Making a massive mess, and they had no more cat litter to replace it. I did manage to get two device chargers and leads, because my chargers (well the Goodman's ones I got a couple of years ago are not charging well now).

All the shoppers were bewildered as to where anything was. The food was spread over to about 20 different (or more) illogical destinations all over the store. For example crisps were in the gardening section???? One person, a woman, kept asking me, "Have you seen the Weetabix yet?" every time we crossed paths. "No, sorry" I said, "Have you seen my coffee yet?" I asked back. It was literally a farce, almost funny actually. And not an assistant in sight.

I fell asleep when I got home, I was exhausted. Slept for 3 hours...

Too tired to do the painting I wanted to do. It is still massively raining. I used a digital app to do a quick painting of the garden from my window, and with the parasol in it on the right. Then, I took a photo of the view through my bedroom glass door. I superimposed it over the painting, on the left. Then I tried a few more apps, making different effects on the picture, until I said it was finished for me. This is my best tired effort for a creative painting for today.

So, I had a bit of fun with this.

I need to go back to sleep. I just want to sleep...

I will peek in when I wake up later...

So here is today's digital painting combined with the photographic view from my bed.


View attachment 42172
 
@gennepher What a nightmare your shopping sounds. With all that stress you still managed to be adventurous and imaginative, a true artists spirit even in dark and exhausting moments, well done.
 
Good Morning and 6 for me today.

Friday again, family meal time, virtual of course at 6pm. Creative challenge this week is 'Peas and Beans' I have written another song, I have illustrated the song sheet which will be distributed to family members later.

My bike is back, feels like new but cost more than it's worth to repair, still cheaper than buying a new one though, should have done it myself, just could not face all that indexing of gears. May go for a Mountain Bike and yes Muddy one this morning.

Drain what you can out of this day and use it well, take care.
 
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