Adventures

We went on an adventure with Mr Aubergine this weekend, but we were only 10 miles from our destination when those hot rays of sunshine gave Mr Aub a touch of heat exhaustion and dehydration. To aid his recovery we emptied our water bottles (and our bladders) and continued on our journey! Poor Mr Aubergine was hot under the collar and less that fragrant when we arrived, but we made it. He's not had too many ailments and enjoyed many adventures in his life time. Now 56, the he is still very handsome, if not a little rusty in places, and much admired (by men of a similar vintage) wherever he goes! He is of course an aubergine coloured Citroen Traction Avant, as featured in Maigret, Tintin and my first blog post !

       
      

Dylan

Yippee! Summer's arrived - at last. The garden is looking lovely, and the air is scented with roses. It has been so nice to walk to the paper shop this weekend in a T shirt instead of a fleece and waterproof. I did however, get a bit melancholic - the river looked so inviting and it was on days like these that Ned took a splash. The sun brought everyone out and people in the village kept stopping to ask where my dog was, which made it worse. And then I was given Blemie's Will by Eugene O'Neil to read (tissues required !).  We had Dylan over for tea yesterday - once a small bundle of black fluff, now a bouncy standard poodle with boundless energy, who provided plenty of "dogginess" to fill the gap for an evening.          

Busy Bee

The three little beasties are nearly done and I have the longest list of commissions that I’ve ever had – so over the next few weeks I shall be a very busy bee. I celebrated my first sale on Etsy this weekend and having made it onto the front page treasury with Dennis my viewings have soared. Most of my commissions to date have been through word of mouth, but I have decided to place an advert in a magazine which covers North Wales, Cheshire & Shropshire. They wanted a photo of me painting – I look a bit mad in most of the photos I already have, so my husband took a few new ones whilst I was painting one of the “little beasties”. When I left the greenhouse (my studio) to fetch said photographer and camera, a bird (no doubt the blackbird who has been pinching our raspberries) sat on the top of my easel and emptied his bowels! Luckily, I had put a sheet of paper over the almost-finished portrait in case it started to rain. Little did I know it was going to rain raspberry-laden bird poo! Needless to say, the portrait would have been ruined without the protective sheet and I would have lost any hope of smiling on camera for a few days!