Heavy overnight rain, but I still went for my regular dawn
walk. Very grey, still and rather warm - even before 6am! Arrived home feeling
very ‘sweaty’!
Spent much of the morning trying to organise my Blurb book
(and think I’ve written my ‘final’ brief accompanying text)… but, inevitably,
things will still change over the coming few weeks. I’m intending to ‘call it a
day’ at the end of six months (ie. effectively mid-September).
Moira and I had coffee inside today.
After lunch, we went down North Street to purchase a
replacement washing machine… sad to have splash out such money (£299), but good
to get it sorted (delivery+installation next Friday – after we’ve returned from
Hannah+Fee’s).
Read more of my ‘Princess Bride’ book during the course of
the afternoon and then, once again, watched an episode of ‘Portrait Artist’.
School A-Level results today and, once again, the government
is under fire… “Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds have been worst hit by the
controversial standardisation process used to award A-level grades in England
this year, while pupils at private schools benefited the most. Private schools increased
the proportion of students achieving top grades – A* and A – twice as much as
pupils at comprehensives, official data showed” (from The Guardian).
Image: A rather weird, rapid wax and watercolour sunflower
sketch (this week’s Drawing Group’s theme is ‘flowers’!).
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