Last Sunday I got up at 6.30 to fit in a swim in the Marine Lake at Clevedon. The lake…
Synchronized Swimming
We had our correct hats on, Clare and I. Perfectly synchronized with each other and with the view. The hat,…
The Glow Swim at Vobster Quay
September 15th: Vobster Quay’s annual ‘Glow Swim’ and the swimmers are ready to go. Once, twice… four times round the…
This Sofa is Occupied
….though it would be fair to say that it is more definitively occupied at one end than the other. Sergeant…
Two new calendars for 2017
Originally posted on Art by Nancy Farmer:
My small and sometimes tidy studio is once more full of boxes: not only are there…
Swimming with Mother
Amidst intermittent torrential showers Mother and I braved Ullswater’s choppy waters. Last time I was here, the water was a…
To Wildcat Island…
Chillswim Coniston end-to-end 2016 On Saturday we swam the five and a quarter mile length of Coniston, me and about…
Boys with new toys
Wormy is still around, but currently in favour is Catnip Dynamite, a highly bitable stuffed cloth cylinder attached to a…
Sketching Sgt. Stripes
A couple of ‘kitten action’ sketches. The top left one was actually a few days ago, young wobbly-kitten-walking. Now we…
Cat-seedling
I have an electric propagator. It is basically a plastic tray with an electric heater beneath its surface, so that…