Whew!

It`s been quite a week and it`s hard to realise it`s only Tuesday (well heading rapidly towards Wednesday as I write). George headed off on the housesit on Saturday – the car was well-laden as we have boxes of stuff we always take with us – we are supposed to supply our own food (although […]

Weekly Photo Challenge : The KIss

Now here you are going to have to excuse me on two counts. First of all, George has gone off on the housesit (I will follow later next week) so I can`t grab him and do a photo of us in a loving embrace using delayed shutter and secondly, George has taken my camera with […]

Gingering things up …

When I first married in 1956 I left my job in London and went to work with a firm of solicitors in Southend. This saved both the expense and the time spent commuting. The office came as a bit of a shock – I was a secretary and had been quite high-powered in London – […]

The North Sea coast …

This was painted from one of our visits to the East coast of England where the North Sea rolls into a shallow shore lapping its muddy waves on the beach. Having spent 23 years in Cornwall (the South-West of England) with its magnificent beaches and azure seas I must admit that the East coast doesn`t […]

Just call me Al …

I so enjoyed doing this painting and yes, Simon & Garfunkel are one of my top favourites!

Daily Prompt: Clean Slate

Daily Prompt: Clean Slate. We are asked to enter into the room where we are at present as if we had never been there before, describe what we see and make an assessment of the person who lives there Hey tough stuff this! I enter into a small rather crowded sitting room with the emphasis […]

You can`t keep a good goose down … (sorry about the pun!)

Goosey is very proud of  himself because today I heard from the gallery that one of my paintings of him has sold!  He`s stalking around the living room at the moment displaying what he considers to be his best side in the hopes that I will ask him to sit again.

Daily Prompt: My Hero!

Daily Prompt: My Hero!. I didn`t have to think too long about this – I was able to identify my hero almost immediately.  Now there is a pause as I go through the names of my father`s brothers (there were a lot of them) – Uncles Charles, Bert, George, Jack and Polly.  Yes, seriously – […]

My poppy …

This is  watercolour painting I finished a couple of months ago.  I had bought some Khadi paper (handmade Indian rag paper) which has a wonderful texture which got me thinking – I then got out the PVA and stuck some crumpled tissue paper on top of the Khadi which gave me the inspiration to paint […]

Weekly Photo Challenge – Reflections

This is a coloured pencil drawing I did a few years ago – taken from a Blogger friend in Canada`s photograph – I sent her the original.  It is of her horse and, reflected in the eye is the image of my friend. That eye not only reflects the image – admittedly not very clearly […]