Friday, 22 May 2020

Friday 22 May:


No walking today.
Spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to get my head around a response to Heritage+Community’s recent remarks about the re-ordering proposals at Saint Stephen’s (ie. responding to other Group members). Eventually got something sent off, but not insightful stuff!
Spoke briefly to Mike Levine – and we talked about a future distance ‘meeting’ at Fort Gardens over a bottle of red wine…
Started to look at doing more sketches for Joe Heap – but my heart sank again when I saw the two views I still had left to do. A bit depressing really.
So ended up spending the first part of the afternoon with my Tom Purvis book (which I’ve now finished and then, at 5pm, had a zoom session with Ruth, Iris+Rosa – which was lovely. They all seem to be coping very well (Ruth is complaining that the girls cook too many wonderful cakes etc!); Iris had ‘social distance’ meet up with her friend who had a heart transplant at the very beginning of lockdown; she’d also managed to use her skateboard; and showed us her (amazing) drawings – she has so much artistic talent; Rosa was just very amusing and engaging; lots of cake-cooking; played the ukulele in Stu’s Mum’s garden; produced a wonderful, simple cat sketch while we chatted using a lump of charcoal etc etc. They all just make me smile (and proud).
Have been enjoying a series on ‘Museums in Quarantine’ (or something like that) – Rembrandt (from the Ashmolean, Oxford) and the Bristish Museum particularly good.
Image: Thursday morning’s pre-dawn sky (from the bathroom window!).

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