Saturday, 11 April 2020

Saturday 11 April:


A pretty full-on day (in these so-called ‘leisure’ times!)…
I went for a dawn walk (via North Street, Ashton Avenue Bridge, harbourside, Gaol Ferry Steps, home); beautiful, still morning and, as one would expect at 6.15am, hardly anyone about.
Returned home, had breakfast and caught up with various ‘admin’ tasks.
Moira and I had coffee in the garden and then I read until lunchtime.
I’d organised (in conjunction with Jennifer) a virtual urban sketching meet-up in Taipei (Jen’s home city) for early afternoon which, despite some initial technical issues, went really well (13 of us connected at the concluding zoom get-together – and there were others sketchers who didn’t ‘zoom’). Everyone seems keen to repeat such events on a regular basis (an ‘English village’ has been suggested for next time).
Image: my Taipei sketch.
At 5.30pm, Moira and I ‘got together’ with Merry Carol, Gerry, Gareth and Alan via zoom – it was really good to catch up. It would be good to repeat it at fairly regular intervals.
During supper, Moira and I watched the last episode of ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’ – where the winner was commissioned to paint the portrait of Nile Rogers (pop icon). We’ve really enjoyed the series and now feel somewhat ‘in mourning’ (and that it’s left a gap in our daily routines).

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