Initially, I’d thought I might wander up to Ashton Court
first thing this morning in the hope that the balloons may be taking off (due
to the pandemic, the normal balloon fiesta isn’t happening – but they’re
proposing to operate the occasional fly-past over the course, I think, of this
week and the next)(there was one last Monday, but the wind was in the ‘wrong’
direction, so I didn’t see it). Anyway, it all looked a bit bleak when I awoke
and the forecast didn’t look encouraging – so I assumed the balloon weathermen
would have decided not to bother a couple of days ago! But the weather forecast
for tomorrow looks good? Anyway, I went for my ‘normal’ harbourside walk and
saw my stand-up-fisherman-friend by the marina and, blow me, he caught yet
another fish within the two minutes I was watching him (that must be something
like FIVE that I’ve actually seen him catch on my travels)!!
Moira and I had morning coffee inside (and it rained
mid-morning).
Busy morning… I collected our fruit+veg boxes from Hugo;
there was a delivery from M+S (which included four white T-shirts for me - about
time I ditched my old ones!); and we also had an Asda delivery. So the fridge,
freezer and cupboards are full again!
I also phoned Pete to see how he was doing (he’d been quite
seriously ill in hospital for some 3 weeks… and was now making a slow
recovery)(in fact, when I spoke to him today, he’d just taken a coronavirus
test as a precaution… coughing – but only as a precaution). Lovely to chat to
him… and, at some time, we desperately need to meet up for lunch.
Poet Vanessa Kisuule (Bristol’s recent poet-laureate) has
asked if I would be prepared to use one of my drawings for the cover of her new
book… and I hadn’t yet got back to her (difficult ‘theme’: “The View from Above
and Below”), so went through loads of my old drawings in the desperate hope of
finding something suitable. I messaged her with nine potential images and now
await her response (I’m not particularly optimistic).
Also posted another ‘virtual’ urban sketchers event (this
time: St Ives!).
Watched a ‘Portrait Artist’ episode (from 2018?) and another ‘Talking
Heads’.
Image: Ashton Court colour (from Monday)… thistles?
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