No walk
today. Pretty grey and dismal day, but dry at least.
Finished
my ‘Virgin Suicides’ book before breakfast and then wrote up my ‘review’ in my
regular book blog.
I’ve been
liaising with Urban Sketching friends Marta and Karen regarding some more
‘virtual’ sketch meet-ups (in Sintra, Portugal and Pewsey, Wiltshire) and so
prepared the links and arrangements and posted them on the USk facebook page.
‘Tuned’
into streamed church (led by Maria, with talk from Richard).
Started
to experiment with a set of old watercolours that I ‘inherited’ from Don
Williamson at Brox (which he ‘left behind’ when he retired… some 30 years
ago?)(see image). I’m not a natural watercolour painter and so it’ll be
interesting to see how things go – I’ll no doubt end up producing blocks of
bland, quite controlled, colour wash. Enjoyed painting while playing some of my
old CDs (including the soundtrack from “Amelie”; Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”;
and Frank Sinatra).
Spoke to
Chris and Sarah via zoom towards the end of the afternoon, which was absolutely
lovely. We miss them terribly since they moved to France last Autumn. After a
pretty traumatic and difficult first few months (friends killed in a car
accident in Africa and Chris’s father struggling with depression – not to
mention having to adjust to community life), there still seem to be lots of
frustrations, but seem to be coping reasonably (and at least they now have
their own small apartment).
Excellent roast supper (Moira cleverly utilised one chicken
and one large potato, plus carrots and kale), followed by bread+butter pudding.
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