Photo's on my Phone 2nd July to 10th July 2024

 Another week of not much, except dog walking and drawing.

My friend and I took our love bugs for a walk up Hollerday Hill, where they chased each other up the hill, dug holes, slobbered on each other and played gentle tug of war. Siri always lets Edie have the stick/ball, he's twice her size and could easily win, but always defers to her in the end. Their bond is a beautiful thing to witness.

We spent some time at the allotment, its divided in half by the Tayberry (covered on green net on the second photo). 

Phil's half is neatly organised in rows, each time he plants he sifts the soil, all very scientific adding the right nutrients at the right time.

My half is chaotic and continues to evolve in its own special way. I've planted flowers and herbs along the edges, because I've always wanted a walled garden and this is the closest thing to one I can get. I'm growing a lot of onions and garlic, planted all over the place, courgettes, peas, beans and fruit bushes. I also have an asparagus bed which I'm very proud of, both my mother and granny had asparagus beds, neither were gardeners, but always produced a good crop each year. My bed is only in its second year, our soil is the worst possible soil for asparagus, I dug a couple of bags of sand in before I planted, the plants seem to be thriving and I have my fingers crossed for a good crop next year. I hope that one day Dais will follow in their footsteps and have one of her own.

My flowers are beautiful at this time of year, I'm especially proud of my rose William Lobb. I've had him quite a few years, he's moved from house to house in a pot, he's been at the allotment since we had it 3 years ago and this year he is spectacular and smells even better.

William Lobb grows next to my compost bins, those of you who remember NDS will recognise the bins.

On Monday we walked to the top of Dunkery Beacon, which is the highest point on Exmoor and Siri tried to dig up a stone to play with.

I was going to add more landscape photo's and talk about my relationship with the landscape, but I'm going to write a second post instead.

Ilfracombe is finished, I'll write a blog post when I've finished tidying it up.
Woolacombe is almost finished, think I might have spoilt it by colouring the roof's black, but never mind I might frame it anyway.

I only did one sketch last week, waiting in the car while Phil walked the dogs on the wrong side of Countisbury Hill, I'd strained my back from standing all day at the town hall market the previous day. The market was so good that I've treated myself to a posh concertina sketch book, I'm very excited, can't wait till it arrives.

Looking towards the East Lyn, drawn with a 0.03 pen

Photo's on my Phone 26th of May - 15th June 2024

 I don't seem to have many photo's on my phone, maybe because we haven't been anywhere for a few weeks.

Siri has spent a lot of time with his girlfriend over the past few weeks, but she's away on holiday at the moment, so he's really sad. She'll be back next week, so hopefully he'll cheer up again.

I walked Tinks & Siri to the top of Hollerday Hill in the sunshine.

We had a barbecue with our neighbours, we are really blessed to be surrounded by such a lovely group of people.

We went to the allotment, which still isn't growing, after being too wet for too long, its now too dry, however the last 2 days its gone back to being really wet again and a small animal has eaten all my strawberries!

The super cars came back to Lynton last weekend to take part in the Lyn Valley Classic, if you like cars it's an amazing event in a stunning location. These were all in Lynton, but Lynmouth was full of them too.

P.S the Lamborghini is my new replacement for the Land Rover!

And finally after living together for 6 years Tinks let Ron lie next to her on the sofa. 

This is the only photo that he looks relaxed, all the others you can see the fear in his eyes, but he put himself there which was very brave of him.

Yesterday I wrote a blog post and drew a picture of my hangover on my new very interesting green paper. The colour is called Verona Green and as colour has always been my thing I googled it. Verona Green has a really interesting history, if you want to know more you can read about it here https://www.naturalpigments.com/artist-materials/green-earth-pigments

This is Woolacombe as it looks today, I haven't got much to do. I'm not happy with the fact it seems to be bending away on the right side, I'm not sure how to get it back to the right position. If it was a digital drawing I would have cut and pasted it in the right place by now.

Ilfracombe is also close to being finished. I still don't have photos of the bottom left side corner, but think I might manage to narrow it down to one missing building, fingers crossed google can find it for me as I don't trust the Land Rover to get me to Ilfracombe and back. There aren't any petrol stations in between here and there and I don't want to be stranded in the middle of a field with a leaky car.

Photo's on my phone - 9th-24th/4/2024

 I love the idea of making a photo diary for my grandboy's, their mummy does a photo catch up every month on Facebook, so I'm copying her. 

It's also a reminder to myself that even though life is hard it's also full of love, laugh's and sunshine.

Photo's on my phone - 9th-24th/4/2024

I published my very first colouring book and we walked the dogs on the moor at Ilkerton. 

My Mother-in-law sent us some photo's including this one of Daisy Mae

 (Mummy of my grandboy's). 

The sun finally shone, so we went to the allotment

We walked the dogs at Lee bay and I took some photo's of stones, with the idea of a potential drawing, maybe a 0.03 pen.......

And I continued work on my Ilfracombe drawing, Ive nearly finished the sketches and couldn't wait to start the digital version.