well, i'm hoping to make it fairly far north at some point... and it might be soon, or it might not be quite so soon... but ether way i would like to be (and i am leglaly required to be) prepared. i need to acquire snow chains for lurch, and not having much experience in this matter am asking for info/advice/input/experiences ( Read more... )

i'm just home from the first evening of a course i'm taking this term. the course is basic vehicle maintenance, and i'm feeling very inspired =smile= this evening i enjoyed learning a little about the tools available to us/that we'll be using.. and going over basic engine layout and parts... and off at/on some tangents. i enjoyed learning some new ( Read more... )

i was not long awake and reading[0] when there was a knock at my door. i dragged on shorts and a shirt, and went out to find it was one of my neighbours[1], who had brought me cake! =grin= and having finished reading/the story, i was up and about, and there was post/mail... including a card and some canadian coins from parallelgirl =smile= thank you! =grin ( Read more... )

that's the title of the painting that lends its image to this user icon... i didn't come here to write about that, but suddenly i find that my mind turns for a moment from a post about weather forecasts and practicalities...and towards the midsummer sunrise. i'm not going to wait up for it (tho momentarily tempted).. nor do i imagine i'll wake ( Read more... )

from notes scribbled on scrap paper, an account of a small summer sortie to suffolk ( Read more... )

what's big red and shiny?

also available in yellow... *smile*

from scotland i made my way south into the lake district... ( Read more... )

wednesday night was the first indoor meeting of art soc for this 'year', and i was pleased to get along after a longer day than anticipated retrieving the trike, and some hurried crumpets for tea *smile ( Read more... )

this has been a long while coming, and is in itself quite long...

monday, a week after leaving glasgow and bicon, i made my way to kilmartin glen *smile* ( Read more... )

van and art seem to be inextricably linked & affecting each other at the minute... yesterday i was too tired after doing van stuff to go do art stuff... and today i've been creating art stuff from van stuff... i'll go try and write about each seperately, but wanted to acknowledge their linkedness in my life at the minute.