Greetings Chookens and Roosterlets As I write, the wind is up and blustering, the rain is coming down so, it’s time to huddle and take up without the glorious distraction of a warm sun toasting your back while you sit and read and enjoy the play around you that is the colours of autumn. Your […]
Greetings fellow island dwellers Were you scared? Were you worried? Did the sands move beneath your toes and make you topple for balance when first you tested those welcome tides of freedom? So, we are out and about, although not even air kissing but there is loo paper, pasta and sanitiser aplenty while […]
Greetings Gardenians For perhaps the most wondrous works of art are collaborations between gardeners & nature or when nature wings it, exquisitely alone. Artists are inherently connected to nature – the very tools of art derive from the earth and plants: dyes, stains, colours, textures, brush, pencil. Weavers, painters, embroiderers, carpet makers all embrace nature’s […]
Greetings Planetarians, Our thoughts this week centre on The USA and their unfortunate circumstances. (hand on heart, I will not mention politics) Front line workers world over face a terrible situation and have shown courage and tenacity, humanity and professionalism throughout this crisis. Currently, those workers in New York seem especially burdened and need our […]
Greetings Gallerians This week A friend and I came to the woeful realisation that we are afflicted with a severe case of the now common, Mush-Brain. To alleviate symptoms, we have taken to composing and sending each other limericks – well, about any/everything. While I will not go so far as to suggest limericks approach […]
Week 5 – Diary, an anchor during the day This week, shall we talk about diaries? We live in important historic times: everything is different now. Once, I heard my grandparents mention Spanish Flu but they never spoke of it in detail, described what it was like, who died, who was ill, how much information […]
Greetings All – Week 4 First, a complaint Such glorious autumn weather. It’s simply too hard to believe in COVID19 when the sky is blue, the clouds wisp and the wind soughs and plays along with the birds through the trees. Our surrounds ought to be objectively correlative (I did 3 years of university to […]
Good morning everybody – Week 3 This week I worked at reviving the ancient and hitherto lost martial art of fly swatting. The sport lost favour during the Pea Beau/Mortein era but, in recent times, there has been a call to bring it back. Supermarkets (last time I looked) are stocking swats. The beauty of […]
Day 1: Gallery One closure: early practice lock-down drill at Gallery One. Tick! Everything in the Gallery safe and secure. A whisker could not breach our defences! Went out to water the plants. Wind blew. Door shut. Locked itself. Let me draw you a new picture of Mitcham Village: the crows are loud and stroppy […]
