October 1990

Left Wales, which is sad – but I’ll return for mre mouth-watering bites of inspiration packed with nutritious sustinance of verbs, adjectives and nouns…

Explored all those little nooks and crannies, holes and spaces in Conwy and it’s castle. There really is just so much to take in it’s unbelievable. Mum and Dad returned from the Lake District bearing gifts gallore – almost like…

Went to Plas Newydd for the last time for a couple of hours in late afternoon. Found eleven vannishing points in the mural which is more than any other person who has studied it. They always only found 10 –…

Went to Plas Newydd from 2 till 7 pm today and sussed the mural. Also saw a selection of Whistler’s book illustrations – in particular a copy of Gulliver’s Travels worth £500 old money (so what the hell is it…

Didn’t get to Plas Newydd today – it was a shame, but I did get to Llandudno to do some necessary drawing for other projects. Also did some shopping, including ventruing into Woolworths and buying what could be referred to…

Back in the Welsh mountains. The inspiration is flooding back to me. This, Conwy is where the idea of Hidden Valley Television came from. What other hidden secrets lie in this corner of the world. Went to Plas Newydd to…

What follows until Wednesday 21 November is piecemeal because up until that date I hadn’t decided to keep a diary.