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Finished my next in the series of Places I have Enjoyed watercolours. This is the Mountain I started two days ago. I have definitely romanticised the place in good Victorian artistic style, it's Striding Edge in the lakes walked on a very beautiful winters day with some fear and trepidation which is probably why I never completed my winter ML, I knew my limitations.

A4 watercolour done from memory and over dramatised...

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It had to happen, the dreaded jet lag has finally hit. I hear Frank Sinatra ... " It's a quarter to 3....so set 'em up Joe" except there's no Joe...

Chamomile tea I think ...and try again. Mister Sandman is missing in action.
S I G H

I'll try to dream about using all the features of the most complicated loo in the universe and if that doesn't send me to sleep, nothing will...

G'Night again!
 
For those who have enjoyed the poems selected by Malcolm Guite here is one of his own written for Mothering Sunday. Ignoring the Christian element still leaves a timely focus on single mothers. COVID will presumably have created a whole new group of single parent families to be stigmatised and victimised. Marcus Rashford may need some support up front.
 
BRSBRI said:
It had to happen, the dreaded jet lag has finally hit. I hear Frank Sinatra ... " It's a quarter to 3....so set 'em up Joe" except there's no Joe...

Chamomile tea I think ...and try again. Mister Sandman is missing in action.
S I G H

I'll try to dream about using all the features of the most complicated loo in the universe and if that doesn't send me to sleep, nothing will...

G'Night again!
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Sheep!:)
 
good evening all :)

4.5 today

usual Sunday visit to Mum today armed with a card and flowers :)

No roast I'm afraid @ianpspurs ;) chicken and veggies baked in a cheese and ham sauce with lots of veggies on the side. Followed by a sort of bread and butterish pudding with low carb cream custard base and and some physalis fruit (11g of carb per 100g and lots of vitamin C) for mr gee and his Mum.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - I'm liking your brush technique with that hint of colour and particularly the tree branches and the rushes appeal to me, nicely balanced :)

@gennepher - fairytale picture today, I do like the light you've brought to it and the subtle hints of those colours in the water :)

@Muddy Cyclist - Striking piece of memory today :) Lovely sky and your mountains have so much real depth :joyful:

art bit - fortunately the disappearance of my computer storage drives seems to have been the 'shoogly' cable fault as it was last time. It's a good few years since I built it now though I have swapped out the drives in the interim :)



today's was painted using the Anilinki dye paints, they really are vibrant, a bit of a shock to the system :D based on an image seen online.

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geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

usual Sunday visit to Mum today armed with a card and flowers :)

No roast I'm afraid @ianpspurs ;) chicken and veggies baked in a cheese and ham sauce with lots of veggies on the side. Followed by a sort of bread and butterish pudding with low carb cream custard base and and some physalis fruit (11g of carb per 100g and lots of vitamin C) for mr gee and his Mum.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - I'm liking your brush technique with that hint of colour and particularly the tree branches and the rushes appeal to me, nicely balanced :)

@gennepher - fairytale picture today, I do like the light you've brought to it and the subtle hints of those colours in the water :)

@Muddy Cyclist - Striking piece of memory today :) Lovely sky and your mountains have so much real depth :joyful:

art bit - fortunately the disappearance of my computer storage drives seems to have been the 'shoogly' cable fault as it was last time. It's a good few years since I built it now though I have swapped out the drives in the interim :)



today's was painted using the Anilinki dye paints, they really are vibrant, a bit of a shock to the system :D based on an image seen online.

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Thank you for your kind words on my Mountains.

Bright! They certainly are and yet brilliant colour and I have seen many a sky like your painting today. A great painting of heavenly skies and the reflections in the small pond.
I must get some of those paints Mrs MC would love them for her flower paintings.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

usual Sunday visit to Mum today armed with a card and flowers :)

No roast I'm afraid @ianpspurs ;) chicken and veggies baked in a cheese and ham sauce with lots of veggies on the side. Followed by a sort of bread and butterish pudding with low carb cream custard base and and some physalis fruit (11g of carb per 100g and lots of vitamin C) for mr gee and his Mum.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - I'm liking your brush technique with that hint of colour and particularly the tree branches and the rushes appeal to me, nicely balanced :)

@gennepher - fairytale picture today, I do like the light you've brought to it and the subtle hints of those colours in the water :)

@Muddy Cyclist - Striking piece of memory today :) Lovely sky and your mountains have so much real depth :joyful:

art bit - fortunately the disappearance of my computer storage drives seems to have been the 'shoogly' cable fault as it was last time. It's a good few years since I built it now though I have swapped out the drives in the interim :)



today's was painted using the Anilinki dye paints, they really are vibrant, a bit of a shock to the system :D based on an image seen online.

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Love that "art bit" and that sounds close enough to a roast: Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air covers the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least 150 °C.
Just not the widely mistreated food served as Sunday roast.
 
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geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

usual Sunday visit to Mum today armed with a card and flowers :)

No roast I'm afraid @ianpspurs ;) chicken and veggies baked in a cheese and ham sauce with lots of veggies on the side. Followed by a sort of bread and butterish pudding with low carb cream custard base and and some physalis fruit (11g of carb per 100g and lots of vitamin C) for mr gee and his Mum.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - I'm liking your brush technique with that hint of colour and particularly the tree branches and the rushes appeal to me, nicely balanced :)

@gennepher - fairytale picture today, I do like the light you've brought to it and the subtle hints of those colours in the water :)

@Muddy Cyclist - Striking piece of memory today :) Lovely sky and your mountains have so much real depth :joyful:

art bit - fortunately the disappearance of my computer storage drives seems to have been the 'shoogly' cable fault as it was last time. It's a good few years since I built it now though I have swapped out the drives in the interim :)



today's was painted using the Anilinki dye paints, they really are vibrant, a bit of a shock to the system :D based on an image seen online.

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Thank you for the painting compliments @geefull

I love those Anilinki paints. Beautifully vibrant...
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Finished my next in the series of Places I have Enjoyed watercolours. This is the Mountain I started two days ago. I have definitely romanticised the place in good Victorian artistic style, it's Striding Edge in the lakes walked on a very beautiful winters day with some fear and trepidation which is probably why I never completed my winter ML, I knew my limitations.

A4 watercolour done from memory and over dramatised...

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Brilliant dramatisation @Muddy Cyclist
Very pre-raphaelite...
I love it.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
These pictures coming from nowhere and no thoughts are working out very well. Remember at the beginning of the year you mentioned illustrated verses, maybe these pieces of art are where you should make a start, verses next? :)
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Yes I did. I remember.
I will have to think this out. Thanks @Muddy Cyclist
 
BRSBRI said:
It makes it bearable. The weather is warm up to 25°C later in the week and it catches the sun in the afternoon. Work delivered to the hotel a large monitor so I can work; there's a large desk too, so all set to get prepped for the big contract discussion...

Even going out into the corridor is problematic so I stick the rules.

1120pm, wee nightcap methinks

Take in the solitary confinement view from round the other side...

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A stunning scene...
 
BGs still very strange - FBG high then I eat something and it stays around the same or goes down! which is unheard of for me - I test before food and then 2 hours after and even if I have had some carbs there is hardly any incline - very weird - I don't know what this vaccine is doing to me or my body - very weird - I am a week and a half in so hopefully not too long until I return to normal ish!
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Finished my next in the series of Places I have Enjoyed watercolours. This is the Mountain I started two days ago. I have definitely romanticised the place in good Victorian artistic style, it's Striding Edge in the lakes walked on a very beautiful winters day with some fear and trepidation which is probably why I never completed my winter ML, I knew my limitations.

A4 watercolour done from memory and over dramatised...

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Wonderfully romanticised Striding Edge, brings back some great memories, thank you for painting it.
 
geefull said:
good evening all :)

4.5 today

usual Sunday visit to Mum today armed with a card and flowers :)

No roast I'm afraid @ianpspurs ;) chicken and veggies baked in a cheese and ham sauce with lots of veggies on the side. Followed by a sort of bread and butterish pudding with low carb cream custard base and and some physalis fruit (11g of carb per 100g and lots of vitamin C) for mr gee and his Mum.

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@dunelm - I'm liking your brush technique with that hint of colour and particularly the tree branches and the rushes appeal to me, nicely balanced :)

@gennepher - fairytale picture today, I do like the light you've brought to it and the subtle hints of those colours in the water :)

@Muddy Cyclist - Striking piece of memory today :) Lovely sky and your mountains have so much real depth :joyful:

art bit - fortunately the disappearance of my computer storage drives seems to have been the 'shoogly' cable fault as it was last time. It's a good few years since I built it now though I have swapped out the drives in the interim :)



today's was painted using the Anilinki dye paints, they really are vibrant, a bit of a shock to the system :D based on an image seen online.

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Thank you @geefull - your Sunday dinner sounds very appealing and who knew that computers have such things as ‘shoogly’ cables? Vibrant is definitely the word of the day with your art. Magnificent sky over a dark landscape.
 
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