The last few days have seen me being being distracted for several reasons, as such I failed to place a blog for a few days; unbelievably face book reprimanded me for failing in my blog writing!!!! So here is a blog.

Above is a watercolour sketch of the lanes in Brighton. Liz and myself love the busyness of the area. Its good fun, go if you have the chance.

But my thinking today is about stepping back a little and recharging. The last six months have been very busy. A large six month exhibition running in conjunction with a smaller local one, group work, the NHS, individual support work, Scouting work, all in addition to my routine project work looking at trees; it has been a busy period and I am tired. So the sensible thing is to step back, just for two weeks and chill a little. Remember to look after yourself and let friends support you a little. The most important part of that for me is how I start each day; I begin with a short while with the Bible, and a time of thinking, followed by a time of prayer; now that is a super recharging session for each morning.

 

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Above is Mount Mosa in the Wadi Rum in the deserts of Southern Jordan, where the film lawrence of Arabia was filmed and the actions found in the book "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" occured. With Liz, I was seated in a four x four bouncing over the dunes. Somehow all the sunlight and heat has been captured in this sketch; this is what sketching is about. Occasionally we stopped and I managed to do a quick sketch. The above took about 15 minuets, when our driver told me that he wanted to carry on bouncing over the dunes again; he was a bit of a very pleasant maniac. All jolly good fun.

But a reminder, the last week of my exhibition at St. Columbas' starts today.

 

Good morning, this morning one of my long term favorites. It was drawn about twenty years ago in St. Ives Cornwall; when believe it or not this was still a shop. I hasten to add that I did not go in.

Exciting news, this Sunday coming I am taking part in Dragon boat racing on the lake at Goldsworth Park, in Woking. I hasten to add that I will not be paddling but rather the drummer beating out the rythmn, should be good fun. We are raising money for the local hospice. If you would like to sponcer me, visit the St. Andrews web site where details of how to sponcer me are portrayed.

Will I drown, will I be thrown in, one thing I know, it will be good fun, come along and watch, racing starts at 10 am.

 

Had a super day last Saturday, Liz was busy, so I was free to wander into London and do a little sketching; lovely. Met an Aussie who was doing the UK in one day, now that takes some beating; I would love to see the timetable for that. Joking asside she was a nice lady. It is a while since I sketched in the capital, and to be honest I was a little rusty, therefore they were binned when arriving home; so I have posted and old image for you. But I did one brave thing, by having a sushie for lunch and actually enjoying it. Walked nearly five miles, got home happy and exhausted.

My exhibition at St. Columba's is going well, a few have been sold, it's all encouraging and  remember if you want to see it, there are only three weeks left now. The exhibition is at:-

St. Columba's House,

Maybury Hill,

Woking,

 GU22 8AB 

Open office hours. Remember to ring 01483766498 before attending, as being amongst other things, it is a conference centre and occasionally sensitve events are taking place.