Winner for reading, but also a virtual hug for the uncertain ongoing Care situation.4.9 this morning @ 7am. Woke up thinking I'd forgotten to do the bins and recycling forgetting its a day later this week due to the holidaysNo news on the care front, so my guess on no care this week is probably correct. I'm so thankful that I have my partner, and my mum nearby if needed otherwise I'd be screwed.
Loving the colours here @gennepher and looking forward to the hand made paperFbg 6.6
Cold here.
Minus 3C
No snow as yet, but BBC weather app promises a deluge of white stuff...
Already been earlier outside when it was dark (all Xmas strobe lights off for once, they have been leaving them on all through the night...) to watch the twinkling stars drinking my first coffee.
My painting for today in Procreate.
Similar to yesterday.
But silly me should duplicate any particular painting tool I use, before I alter the settings within that painting tool
Going to investigate making paper today. So I can get everything ready for the my next year projects. I used to make my own paper. I used to love those Yellow Pages in the phone books several decades ago. More recently I used plant materials from my garden. Nettles grow well here, and they were used. Loads of other plant materials. My last liquidiser conked out when making paper. I now have two new cheap liquidisers. Which I have not used yet. It does take a lot of space to dry it all.
Any way. My digital painting in Procreate.
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Take care @gennepher and hope to see you back on the thread when you can.
Smashing art - well chosen colours, great composition - I do like willow trees.
Thank you @geefull - an a fine wintery mountain scene from you with great scale and majestygood evening all
4.7 today
feels very cold again here, though we got sunshine rather than the snow we did get ice everywhere, made our village walk around a bit skiddly at timeswe still enjoyed it though, haven't walked enough recently. I had on a lot of layers
a quietish day today, just a few sorting out jobs in the kitchen done and I've decided we're having a chicken curry for tea
I must say that not feeling the same pressure to buy the 'fancy' special food for Christmas the last few years because of eating LC has been quite a bonus and we shan't be wasting anywhere near the amount we used to
We still eat very well, we just consume less marketing
I too enjoy the variety of chat subjects we share here
Hope your day is treating you well and your weather is kind
@Muddy Cyclist - glad you managed your trip safely and cheers for neighbourly spirit
@Sugarlisa - welcome
@ianpspurs - thank you for today's poem, a timely reminder
@dunelm - even if you feel you didn't capture things the way you wanted to it's a fine waterfall sketch, as usual you have managed to create weight in those rocks
@gennepher - I enjoyed your poem, is it a haiku? I look forward to hearing about your papermaking endeavours, not something I've ever tried
Your picture today has more of those lovely fluid textures and colours
@lindisfel - nice landscape, and I agree it has a restful quality
art bit -
my take on an image by an artist called Teresa Ascone - I enjoyed the way she managed to create so much scale
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A fine composion. I like the way that you worked the trees and the river bank.This was my first attempt at a landscape a few years ago.
I found it restful to look at, even though it has its problems!
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The shaft of light coming from off picture on the left is a artefact of the light coming in the window when I took the picture, but it could raise questions as why the artist put a hole in the sky out of scene!
Derek
Do let me know what you think about The Thursday Murder Club - it’s on my list. Got to plough through three of Stephen Fry books at present though; Mythos, Heroes and Troy.
Thank you.
Thank you for putting a smile on my face, finger painting is great fun bad enough with paint, ink is a whole different level of mess. I was Trying to decide what the creatures are, hopperty fleas came to mind
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- In the green all night and no jump at around midnight-1am so it looks like switching to have Jardiance at lunch and then metformin at dinner and before I go to bed is working to smooth that out. And especially given all the over-indulgences over the past few days (there... I said it)...
Great news about the impact of changes on BG, rent from the bungalow and decisions on how to proceed with regard to bills and loans. That all sounds like a major turn around from earlier in the month so I am delighted for you, I still need to see the words Rosington Bear on the screen but I mustn't be greedy.Swipey: 5.8
Think I am going to do work out Weds and Fri and back at it proper after all this merriment malarky has gone.
Lots of work planned today - lots of content to get written up for New year health-kick nuts and a brief interlude before the tennis season gets underway.
I have decided to ask my financial advisor to draw down the money I need to pay off my deferred self-assessment tax bill during lockdown, and to pay back the friend who bailed me out after the horror temporary tenant who broke all the expensive things! I feel I would rather do that than start the year with a debt. Psychologically it feels like the right way to get those out of the way. As my own, wonderful keeper of a BF says - this is your rainy day money. It might take a few weeks to draw down so as not to skew interest etc from the investment wrap but I need to feel like I am starting the New Year the right way.
This month FINALLLLLLY the rent from my late mother's bungalow looked to be at full strength with no sneaky little expenses coming out of left field. So for the first time since the summer when it was empty, I feel a little less anxious about it. Even Cave-Dweller's rent arrived this morning. I can even make up for not working out this morning by running up and down the stairs between my personal PC and my "work" laptop and printer down in the office.
One thing I am anxious is ... the next trip to the supermarket and after playing an extensive game of rock-paper-scissors with myself I decided that I neither have the stamina or the self-loathing to submit myself to Saimsbury's after a bank holiday Monday. I am going to use up what I have or buy spares from the Tesco Metro up the road and will hit Sainsbury's maybe on Sunday morning.
Thank you for putting a smile on my face, finger painting is great fun bad enough with paint, ink is a whole different level of mess. I was Trying to decide what the creatures are, hopperty fleas came to mind
Nice one, my cousins down in Sheffield are telling me that it’s a bit white
