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Category Archives: About artists.
The new normal
I had every intention of being funny today but it just isn’t in me. Naturally the stronger reverberations of the suicide in the wider family are going to take some time to die down. Many people will have lost a … Continue reading
Wad some po’or…….
The incomparable Mr Burns did remark that it would be interesting if we could see ourselves as others see us. It would, and, also, quite alarming. This morning, being Friday, is recycling day at the edge of the pavement. Round … Continue reading
Read all about it.
I wish I could say I’d planned my life and then carried out the plan. This is one mode of operation that life coaches are awfully keen on, though the minute anyone says ‘life coach’ I immediately wonder why they … Continue reading
The gift.
I distinctly recall, when I was three years old deciding that I would never give my mother the satisfaction of seeing me cry. I never did and now my emotions are locked down tighter than a ship of nuns in … Continue reading
Assorted things.
There have been some rollercoaster days of late, it’s been that sort of week. I read in the newspaper that people are complaining of boredom. I never seem to get the chance. Midweek I got a very helpful letter from … Continue reading
Christmas
Happy Christmas, dear reader. How are you and how are you doing? As usual the night before Christmas, sleeping badly in case I slept in, I was up at six o clock and looked out of my big south facing … Continue reading
The art of card theatre.
Here we are at Christmas 2020. I have been making my own Christmas cards for over thirty years, I usually make about 70. This year I thought I should pull out all the stops, I have been talking, over the … Continue reading
Everything comes……….
To he who waits, it’s a long road that has no turning, the only constant in the universe is change……….. Are you ready to hit me yet?* Yes it has been a very annoying year. But on Tuesday it will … Continue reading
Christmas on the cards.
Despite lockdown all over the place, Christmas is on the cards, mainly because I am making them. I’ve been doing it so long, I can’t even remember how long, possibly thirty years. In the course of the clear up I … Continue reading
The eyes have it.
Having spent ten days without my lenses in my eyes I am off for biometry, which is to say, measuring the eyes without the mitigating effects of contact lenses, to see what they can see. Well I can save them … Continue reading