I, finally, signed off the dole on Wednesday of this week. It sounds such an insignificant thing to do, but, unfortunately, the dole can easily become a way of life. It has always been my safety net, and I have been able to go to college and live whilst on ‘The Back to Education Allowance, and bring [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Signing Off !
Posted in Art, Daily Life, Uncategorized, tagged adult community, Back to Education Allowance, Dole, screen printing, single parent, surveys on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cold but happy
Posted in Daily Life, Weather, tagged blog, electric heater, Flickr, freezing, hibernate, woodstove on October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A massive ‘thankyou’ to Nichola for all the hard work she put in this morning, helping me to organise, register and link my blog to other sites. She worked incredibly hard and amazed me with the depth of her knowledge. Now I am trying to put into practise the things that she told me. I [...]
Pain in the neck …
Posted in Daily Life, tagged heatpack, neck, neck pain, pain on October 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yes it’s official, I have a pain in the neck , no, not ‘I am’, I have… “ What did you do?” says Nichola. Played on the swings, roundabout, hammock, seesaw, climbed the climbing wall etc etc in the kids playground with my niece Niamh. Then, I went bowling for an hour or so. Little enough really. The [...]
Printing…
Posted in Art, tagged colour, grinding, grinding pigments, landscape, natural pigments, pigments, printing, process, screen printing, studio, Vancouver on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Morning all, beautiful sunny day outside.
I have been working this morning, experimenting with natural pigments. I bought the pigments in powdered form in Vancouver when I was there a few years ago, and, of course, they have been sitting in my studio ever since. Now, at last, I have decided to try them out, the [...]
Pouring!
Posted in Daily Life, Weather, tagged ash, beech, Canadian R, conservatory, crossword, holly, music, oak, rain, set dancing, studio, velux, workshop on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is pouring outside, I mean in bucket loads, thundering on the velux windows and slashing at the glass walls of the ’sun’ room. It’s where I work every day, it’s now my workshop or studio, as well as a sitting area, a place to drink tea and do the crossword, to read or listen [...]
It’s a beautiful day…
Posted in Daily Life, Weather, tagged chickens, diet, grass, lawnmower, soup, Vegetable soup, washing on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a beautiful day and I have just given the grass a ’short back and sides’ the washing is blowing madly on the line and there’s a pot of vegetable soup simmering on the stove. Does that conjure up an ‘ideal’ a vision of some housewife with her apron on the back half door open and the [...]
Technology
Posted in Daily Life, tagged Broadband, Facebook, school friends, Technology Managment on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In all reality it should be me studying Technology Management and not my partner. Management being the operative word. I have just spent the last two hours on Facebook trying to trace old schoolfriends that I haven’t seen or spoken to for at least 30 years. Technology it’s a great thing but it is wasting a [...]
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