The final edit

Halloo Tabi

Just finished crunching your film together.

Hope you like it

Your link is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev7ZzKOfbGU

seeyoobothsoon

xx

s

A great day!

All my lovely painting things arrived - so now I am really scared! No more messing about with Crayola and coloured pencils.
Off to a film producer (Siri) to help edit a film on North Norfolk Different Strokes. I had to write a script and do a voice-over. The film is going to be shown at Sheringham Little Theatre!
Then painting group tonight - I shall take my pole dancers with me so maybe we will get some more clients for the Stroke group!

Chevvie

I dreamed I was a tiger
Under the blue transvaal sky
The heat crisped my fur
The wind waved a sigh

Tiger Lily Two

Tiger Lily is another pole dancer in Nottingham - with a difference - it's a mixture of pole dancing and burlesque.

Tiger Lily

My sooper-dooper brushes arrived today - everything from Size 1 to 10. Can't wait to get something on canvas. Had a go at watercolours yesterday but didn't like them - too wishy-washy. Am now waiting for more paints, pastels, oil pastels and some good paper and some mounted canvas.
Will be very nervous about first stroke on canvas. Sketching on crap paper is lot different than putting paint on canvas - which I have never ever done. I am going to paint on canvas without sketching on it first. Yikes!

My Sinsperation

Hannah on a good day!

Another butterfly

I tend to get obsessed with one thing for a while - so it's butterflies this week. Can't wait to re-draw them and then paint them. Some are from life and others from photos. The grass is growing really long in the garden so loads of life around - except frogs! Got to get some more guinea pigs to mow the lawn - this time they will be kept in a run and not allowed to free range and be brought in at night.
Dentist 12.20pm - the lovely Sue is coming with me.

Butterfly sketches

Not my favourite subject as the damn things won't keep still! They are okay but too time consuming for me. Making them huger will be better and bright bright colours. Sticking to the pole dancers for a while!

Primnolia and Magrose

Every flower bears a message:
Primrose: I cannot live with you
Magnolia: Sweetness

Sadly another digital camera on its way out - after three months - the lens has something wrong with it (it creates a halo effect in middle of photo) - so sending it back (yet again) for a new one.

Luckily I have two more!

Love that pole!

Hannah Vicious-Kitten and Kierton do their thing in Notters

Third sketch

Mad woman pole dancing

Cozy the Cat

Cozy the Cat is a curious cat
She lives in the garden and never wears a hat
She has three legs so she has three paws
She never bites and never claws
But Charlie the Cat has moved into the house
So Cozy creeps round as quiet as a mouse
Otherwise Charles gives a hiss and a spat
So Cozy the Cat is a careful cat

Mrs Blinkered by Pablo Picasso

That woman certainly gets around - often wondered what happened to her as she hasn't been seen in Sheringham for a couple of years and now she shows up in The Louvre.

Second sketch

This is the preliminary sketch which is now going to be done in acrylic and wax, It's called 'Mad Woman Singing'.

Welcome to the world

Welcome to Harry Peter. Proud
parents Alan and Anna. I have known
Alan since he was around 7 years old so it seems so strange he is now a daddy.
Jane, Alan's mum, is overjoyed. Teazel the cat was a bit jealous a first but now all is settled.
Peter, thank you for waking the blackbirds up every morning - will come and visit you with Jane at the churchyard.

Meetings

Believe it or not folks I got up at 7.30am - and then was picked up by taxi (just like the good old days) and driven to Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People for a meeting on enablement and activities. We were, after an introductory talk, divided into sub-groups for discussions. I chose Independent Living (Training).
After 15 minutes I began to think sticking pins in my eyes might have been a better option because I was sitting with two trustees whose duty it seemed to be to get the words 'protocol', 'politics', 'procedures', 'implementation', 'primary objective' into each sentence.
However also sitting at the table was a very interesting man from Syria called Haian - who happens to be the third most handsome man in the world - so we talked about Syria, having a disability in Syria, his MA at UEA, the UN and Paris.
This somewhat annoyed the two trustees who gave us a stern look and said they were wrapping up the session as there were things to discuss that couldn't be discussed then and there because the primary objectives had not been met so they couldn't discuss secondary objectives without seeing the procedural protocols implemented.
We then moved to the Independent Living (interesting) table and things got better and better. We talked about community, disability rights, equipment awareness training, a dating agency for those with disabilities and I can't tell you what happened next but let's just say it ended up with laughter and general mayhem.
Then it was back home and my bloody toothache came back - going to dentist tomorrow.
Eleven days to Norway and then when I get back we are off to Bilbao!

Life's a beach

Am aiming to fall back in love with North Norfolk. Treacle drags me to a different beach each day. Twelve days to Norway.

First sketch

Started with an informal art group on Thursday. I haven't sketched anything since I left school in 1967. One of the very advanced painters said to me 'go for it, don't think about it' just go for it - I will give you 30 seconds to do that image'. This is the result. Will there be a second sketch? Who knows.
Bet you are glad Lizzie that you flew to Malaga the day before the earth stood still. I wonder if Jess is still in Barcelona? A couple of other friends are stranded in the US.
Am totally blissed out. In the garden. Dunnocks chirping, bees buzzing, the occasional car passes by, warmth aaaaahhhhhhhhh

Puff

9/11 didn't do it, 7/7 didn't do it, the global recession didn't do it but Mother Nature in all Her glory hiccuped and the whole world stands still.

Cat Walk

Treacle and I went out for a stroll and snapped some cats enjoying the sunshine.
For the first time in days a light aircraft flew overhead and it sounded really strange. Amazing how quickly we become accustomed to non-sound.
Wish I'd been stuck in Italy, France or Spain rather than on this island though. Gives me a feeling of claustrophobia. Why did I ever come back to the UK - must have been a momentary lapse of judgement.
On 2 May I will be sailing off to Norway for a six day cruise - £399 all in - haven't unpacked from Spain yet so won't have to pack!

Bee watch

After a totally unproductive morning in the boring and unattractive town of Norwich we drove via the country route home and spotted a field full of yellow flowers (don't know what they are) and bees. There must have been hives close by for so many to have been around. Could have stayed for hours just listening and watching.

Water, water everywhere

How does your garden grow?

Mirror
Having just listened to election broadbast, hubbie spots three flying pigs - one blue, one red and one orange
The now frogless pond
I want a walk NOW!
The frog slayer