After the cat bite incident of 8th October, subsequent tetanus jab and antibiotics, having to rest my hand and keep it dry and elevated I am relieved to say my hand has healed fully and I can get back to painting again… I started the sea goddess painting a few weeks ago and of course […]
Update regarding the last two days.. on Sunday afternoon my neighbours dog jumped into my garden and chased my cat across our garden and got the cat in it’s mouth..all very sudden and lots of shouting by me and my neighbour very quickly chased after the dog and asked what happened.. he was very concerned […]
Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk along my usual country lane just outside the village. And saw that there was a dead cat at the side of the road, but partly in the road and I was just contemplating how to move it out of the way when a car drove up and I […]
That was certainly a first when the BBC rang me this morning wanting permission to use one of my images on ‘Have I got new for you’….. It was only a few minutes before that Stuart Haywood had rung me to inform me that a photo I had taken a few years ago (of him) […]
Between the rain showers yesterday I went for my usual walk along the road, and on the way back a woman I know well enough to stand and chat to called me over to her to say that she had been to see a local art exhibition in the next village (about three miles away […]
Its the blogs birthday today… 16 years I’ve been writing a blog… I still enjoy writing it, and its always lovely when people tell me that they read it, it makes it all worthwhile. Happy Birthday Blog!
Yesterday a guy came to see me from Northamptonshire, a two hour journey to Kent, and I hadn’t met him before. He brought with him a good friend of mine, Jo, who is a mutual friend of ours. It was nice to meet him face to face, we had spoken on the phone a couple […]
This week I have received a wonderfully heartwarming email from someone called Craig….here are the main parts of the email he sent to me…. I would like to start by thanking you for the ‘blogs’ you have on your website, and what a profound affect these snippets of your existence have had on me; and […]
Over Christmas I was delighted to see one of my favourite films… and even though I must have seen it at least four times over the years I thought I’d watch it again….and found that I was totally enthralled with it all over again. The film was ‘Oliver Twist’ – the 1948 black and white […]
Ooohh…. I’ve just been asked to do another interesting commission, a totally different one to the one I finished last week. This one will be a painting in acrylics, of two people. How exciting. Can’t wait to get started on it…
I’m always happy to get a commission to do for a client for Christmas. The conversation via email started yesterday, when someone asked me if it was possible to do a pen and ink drawing of a house in Shropshire for someone elses Christmas present. I replied it was possible, and fortunately I was given […]
I’ve finished the commission I was asked to do for clients a few weeks ago…and I’ve finished the autumnal gardening jobs that have to be done at this time of year when the weather is mild and sunny enough, and before the winter rains come. That took two weeks or so to do… So now […]
Yesterday was the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II – the most poignant of days for me in so many ways. She was queen when I was born, so I have known no other monarch in the 70 years she reigned. It was a massive shock to hear of her death, even though she was […]
I’ve just come back from a wonderfully relaxing holiday in France..our second visit to that wonderful country this year. It always makes me feel happy to be there.. And even better news I have a new commission to do…which is always exciting…
Yesterday I went for my usual walk on the outskirts of my village, summer or winter, spring, or autumn, I enjoy the walk, it has a few houses, lots of trees, fields, and dappled sunshine at this time of year in this glorious hot summer sunshine. As I walked past one of the houses there […]