On Sunday, I took Theo out on a social walk organised by a local greyhound rescue. I wouldn't normally have taken him along, since he's a Greek Harehound and very definitely not a sighthound, but Julie, who runs the course he'd been attending and also organised the walk, suggested that we give it a go.

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I actually took these just over a week ago: the bluebells are fading now, but I am trying to buck the trend of taking photos and then leaving them forever on my camera card, so here they are, taken on a rainy morning when the air was full of the scent of flowers. 

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I got tagged by Lurcherlink this year asking if I would join in with designing a card for their card competition thingy!
I did something rather different to last year; Brusho and ink rather than acrylics.  I am now seized by doubt and wondering if I should have gone with acrylics after all, but I do like the vague drifty colours of the trees from ( Read more... )

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I really need to tackle the garden, which has become enormously wild and woolly this year. I just couldn't find the motivation for it somehow ( Read more... )

I have a bit of a cold, so when I walked Rosie this morning, I went for a gentle stroll, congratulating myself on how she has over the last year or so turned into a much easier dog to have about the place: she's generally confident and happy and even comes when called ( Read more... )

Gambara the Volvo, with over 146,000 miles on the clock, passed her MOT with flying colours, and didn't even need a new tyre!

Blimey they build Volvos solid.

What else has happened?  Pp and I went to Colin the Art's Open Studio private view thingy, and were much amused by this one of his paintings
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"Europa and the Bull at the Organic Farmers ( Read more... )

The idea of this exercise was to make a painting with 50 strokes of the brush, to make it important to think about each brush stroke (not including background).  I added probably another 50 after the initial outline, but I'm still pleased by how fast I made this. It took maybe an hour.


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