Essential Winter

The essential mid-morning Saturday: Sparky has found his favourite thing in the world (our new wood-burning stove).

Who's there? What for?

How come she was in Cambridge market - when I thought she was far away in Colombia?

And why did her appearance worry me?

Who else is here I don't know about?

Watch this space...

Paintings to loan

As I said earlier, I'm now loaning out paintings so that you can think whether you;d lke to buy one, or maybe just so that you can "ring the changes". Here's a selecetion of styles....

The last one, "Saturday Afternoon", has been loaned out and is now sold ...

Colour hits back!

A selection of colourful leaves and berries photographed yesterday, and illustrating what a wonderful autumn we've had...

Winterfilth

JRR Tolkien revived the old Anglo Saxon month names, (see OUP Blog below, http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/winterfilth/ ) and although Winterfilth belongs to October, today is definitely Winterfilth-y! Here's my walk through the rain. Avoiding the dustcart which was driving slowly down the road collecting wheelie-bin rubbish, I went by the Canal, (which had a strange, sad, brooding beauty?) Actually, it didn't, it was quite upbeat, the ducks were very happy and I marched through the mud enjoying the peace and being outside, which is so much better than stuck indoors on a dark day. Though the cats, except Spike, have spent today asleep. Spike enjoyed watching the gas man mend the boiler, and then later went outside to collect mud on his paws so he could land splat on the typescript I was working on!