Well, it’s been longer than I like before posting here. I mean, a nice teasy gap is all well and good, but Over a Week? I blame both my tonsils (wildly inflamed) and my Personal Life (ditto), which occasionally draws me inexorably away from a computer screen, kicking and screaming as I am dragged.
All is now as sane as it will get for some time, and I have Mainly been Drawing Mermaids in my absence. One has turned out (rather unfairly) as a kind of Joan Crawford brazen hussy of a dyed blonde despite her watercolor (she is going to return to natural brown tomorrow, and it will suit her much better). The other is a sadder pencil drawing, which I think is nicer, but probably will not sell. Joan will undoubtedly sell. And soon I shall draw a less brazen Joan which will work even better and might contribute to my quest for Nice New Boots.
One trip to Ludlow, in the rain, but the castle always looks nice (it was Closed). How can a castle be Closed? It was very walkaroundable, and the views, although damp, were still romanticky and quite sad.
To cheer me up, as I walked us home in the rain, my youngest daughter (five) told her first ever joke:
Rosie: I have a joke for you.
What do you get if you cross a cat and a rabbit?
Me: I don’t know
Rosie: A woolly jumping.
Me: Hahaha. Very good darling.
Rosie: I made it up. Did it work? Was it funny?
Me: Not really, no. But it was nice anyway.
Rosie: It’s meant to be what if you cross a pig…err…and a sheep…and a trampoline. And you get a woolly jumper. So I changed it, it’s jumping (jumps up and down). Do you see? Jumping.
The pictures are of mermaids. Why not. It is January, after all. We had chocolate eclairs for tea to celebrate the joke.
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