September 2004

Setting up paper and easils tonight I somehow found myself with a full frontal pose to somehow draw, which was actually very hard when the subject is seated and you somehow have to show the deph of field and perspective…

After the difficulties getting up recently, I was quite impressed with how promptly I managed to drag myself from my warm, cozy bed in the dim half-light of morning. Showered, breakfast I was heading out the door when Julian kindly…

( haymaking in hungary ) Attila #2: ‘I am very lazy’ Day 6. 23 July 2004 Friday. I wake close to 6 o’clock with the remnants of a very, very weird dream – impossible to recount or describe – that…

Okay, not two things that you would normally hear in the same sentence, but that in four words, was my weekend. I really couldn’t say why I’ve left it till the last minute to do the tax return (it’s due…

Packaged up my entries for the Fish Unpublished Novel and the Co Durham Crossover novel competitions today, and despatched them off. What will happen next I wonder…? ~~~~~ Now, go forth and listen to this now! No really, you must!…

I was really very nervous all day about going to my first Life Drawing class tonight. I ate a meal in the canteen at lunchtime and then worked late this evening and had my sandwiches for heading to the Oxford…

My art course starts tomorrow, so I’ll be staying in Oxford after work till the course starts at 6.30. I have my sketchpad and willow charcoal of various thicknesses. Other than that, I have absolutely no idea what to expect?…

Attempting to strive further into chapter three after way to long a break, whilst watching some ABBA documentary on the tele… Hrmm…

i didn’t get it that is all

Back to school today. Well, not school, but band is back in the diary for Thursday nights. It’s funny, but even though I haven’t picked up my flute since mid-July (slaps wrist!) I found that my breathing and tone were…

Yes, I attended my one-day grammar and language usage workshop. I’m not promising that my spelling and grammar abilities will dramatically change, or that I’ll be able to suddenly impress folk at parties with geeky grammatical insites, however I do…

Fox hunting with hounds will be banned and not before time. I’m sure that most of these violent protesters have about as much interest in the issues involved as thugs who cause trouble at football matches. Even so, they have…

Thursday + Six-thirty + Radio 4 + Jeremy Hardy = Very, very, very funny But if you missed it. Sit back, log on, and enjoy. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Well, I think it went good. Apologies if that last sentence doesn’t make good grammar but I’ve been a bit bleeuurgghh all afternoon. Oddly I’ve been okay when doing work, but when I tried to send out an email about…

I now have synopses to for both Flyht and Blood & Fire, yay!! Together with the Appreciation of Diana Wynne Jones, and the 1000 and 5000 starters to their respective chapter ones’ I now have all I need to put…