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Category Archives: About artists.
Slow on the draw.
Not a shoot out with the OH or some doctors, actual drawing. I cannot believe how happy simple drawing makes me and, amazingly, at my age it’s new. Many people go through a stage of drawing endlessly when they discover … Continue reading
Marginal sanity.
I have been washing my fountain. This is not a euphemism for anything, I have actually been washing my little solar fountain because the grand children are coming today and they always make straight for the fountain. I should have … Continue reading
Stuck up
What’s this? You can see the size of it. It’s quite large for what it is. Some of the porcelain things I make are small, well they would be – they are dolls’ house miniatures. However out of those some … Continue reading
Happy Easter
Easter already, can you believe it, where is the year going? I didn’t post last week because I had a germ and was horribly sick. These days after the hospital horrors I just stop if I am ill and look … Continue reading
Der
I got started yesterday on some fairy houses for Miniatura. Having spent the usual time faffing around, prior to actually tackling the thing I wanted to do, I thought it a good plan to get an early night and get … Continue reading
Thank you
We went on the train down to London because the OH wanted to see the orchid display at Kew Gardens. Like idiots, especially like retired idiots, we hadn’t realised it was half term. We had not realised either that at … Continue reading
Watching.
We do a lot of watching. I sometimes think that we are defined by what we watch. Moreover there are more places than ever to watch. One of the entertainments is watching people who are busy watching hand held devices … Continue reading
In print.
I don’t suppose for a moment you imagined that the broken printer saga would end with just buying a printer, did you? Me neither, though I was hopeful that, the OH having ordered the identical printer to the one he … Continue reading
Milestones
I have been neglecting you. I am sorry. I have a really good excuse. I’ve been writing. It’s the novel. It’s getting very exciting, I begrudge time sleeping, you would when it’s this thrilling, I do but I have to, … Continue reading
Writing
I have little time to write because I’m writing. I was a bit stuck, mostly because the one year cancer check up was looming and I couldn’t think. The doctor was no one I had ever seen before but he … Continue reading