Category Archives: Life

Reasons to be cheerful / number 4

    Walk to St Pauls, across the Millennium Bridge ( very high tide ), then a cup of coffee in Tate Modern.

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Reasons to be cheerful / Number 3

It’s 16.21 and still light! Hurrah!

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Reasons to be cheerful 2014

Luna Arabella River Garside and Tom her Daddy –  …and Amy her Mummy. I’m a great aunt!!

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Reasons to be cheerful 2014

Beautiful Hellebores in a neighbour’s garden

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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Have just received a review from WordPress – almost worse than a school report…. must resolve to do a bit better in 2014!! Start tomorrow – Happy … Continue reading

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Watercolour Secrets

I’ve been working on a book – see title above. I know about book production / design / etc but you always forget how time consuming a book is – I guess it’ll be worth it in the end. Amazon … Continue reading

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Royal Watercolour Society Autumn Supper

Here we are at the RWS Autumn Supper on Sunday 3 November – it’s a wonderful society to belong to – we have 75  full members and at the moment about 6  Associates – we need more!! If you work … Continue reading

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New Talent / Old Talent

In the Camden Review today, there’s an interview with Jonathan Miller who is going to have a show of his art works at The Cross Street Gallery N1 2BA starting November 8. He says ‘ Of course you have to … Continue reading

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The Most Important Thing…….

Other people’s dreams are very boring but last night I had one of those when you know you have to be somewhere very important but for some reason it’s proving impossible. You try and try but time is running out … Continue reading

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Morning Glories at Kings Cross

Saw these from the bus yesterday and went back to take a photo today – sadly the sun wasn’t shining but I’ve never seen so many flowers. Really fabulous – they always remind me of those flower paintings where there … Continue reading

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