Moira and
I went for a harbour walk (in slight drizzle) before coffee at home and
streamed church.
For the
first time, I logged into SkyArts ‘live’ Portrait Artist of the Week programme
via facebook. I do SO like the programme (and particularly the quality of the
presenters). I think artists (in this case Tom Meads) have four hours to
produce a portrait (today it was rapper Professor Green)… and I made my own 30minute
sketch with my fineline pen (see image). Mine was certainly not wonderful
quality, but it was good to listen to the dialogue between artist, sitter,
presenter etc.
Spent
some more time trying to explore the ‘Hamilton’ family history (traced back to
1706 – birth date of Andrew Hamilton (of Avondale, Lanarkshire)(farmers, I
think).
Read a
couple more short stories from scary book!
Had a
phone call from Rosa (I love chatting to her – she was in very good form!)… she
was about to make biscuits for the family.
Demonstrations
in London (and elsewhere) over the weekend in connection with ‘Black Lives
Matter’… unfortunately they were accompanied by violence from right-wing groups
apparently taking action to ‘protect statues’! Utterly depressing.
Number of
reported daily deaths given as 36 (lowest since mid-March), which is very good
news. Sadly, there are lots of reports of people abusing the social distance
rules etc (reports of raves in Manchester attended by 6,000 people – and resulting
in one death, one rape and three stabbings. There are no words…
Roast
pork for supper! How lovely was that!
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