A Slice of Ice by Tom :: Feeling his penguins needed a home involving ice slides Tom has made one. Luckly not being put off by my attempts to 'help' he was finished in an hour or so.




The Big Draw:: Callendar Park Gallery :: Tom, Annie and I got stuck in with collaberative art for a couple of hours with Karen Kirkwood and Ewan Robertson. Starting wild, formless and messy, swaping work, reforming and pulling in - composition, rhythm, framing, boundaries, focal points, texture and more mess. Liberating art, discarding the impulse to protect our work from the gaze let alone marks of others we made stuff and set off home to do more.

More Sunshine

Annie has wanted to do painting for days and here we are sidetracked again by gummed paper pictures. And here is Annie modeling hers. How do I rotate these pictures? The camera has gone loopy - or I have - Hmm.

Jake dressed up as a monster by a fire.

The 'Map Man' inspired theodolite in action mapping the road in front of our house.

Up the maple tree again, pushed up there by Tom.

Sunlight through the leaves framing Tom.

We also bounced ball sand cleared a room for a carpet. T and A played a long hospital game with a 100% cure rate. Another Lego quarry has been made then converted into a toy with a train lift by my poor boy who's parents don't buy him battery toys. Now to sort out the un-rotated pictures and put the children's bedrooms back together more cosy and tidy than ever before. Well at least with carpets not covered in nameless muck with cut out bits of the worst bits of muck. Off to arrange beauty.

Autumn Lovelies

My Acer palmatum dissectum seedling 4 years old I think found with two tiny leaves at Callens Edge and transported north then nurtured.

Can you spot the children? Two days of blue skies and warm sun, mmm (contented purring noise).

Egremont Russets nearly ready to eat. Too beautiful to eat.