Insurgency: operation postcard art hijack
beach
Bikecast!
I have wanted to take a typewriter for a ride for a long time, and finally got around to it. Unfortunately a dog scared the birds away almost as soon as I sat down to type a picture of them, so I’m afraid this trio is all I can offer. However not to worry, I brought my swimming kit, so all is fine and dandy.
The water is 16.6 degrees C, about as warm as it will get this summer. The safer seas and rivers app tells me the water is also clean enough to swim in. I never venture in these days without checking. Southern Water has an abominable reputation for dumping untreated sewage into the sea, and this year was fined millions for its misdemeanours. But today all is looking pretty nice.
Don’t wake the kids up!
The eagle-eyed detectives will notice that my Alphasmart is resting on a blanket and that the screen of my Alphasmart is showing a reflection of a painting. To avoid anyone being left wondering, yes, I am blogging from my bed, and the next pictures show the painting. I bought it for £45 in the summer of 1996, from a fellow Fine Art Graduate after our final degree show at Falmouth. I’d had my eye on it since I’d first seen him working on it in the studio. I love it still, it is titled, Human Element, the artist is Edward Lewis. I’m not sure if he is still painting but that is quite irrelevant…
Summer storm approaching
Time and tide waits for no one
So, I wrote my three lines of biography for Backspaces. I’m so chuffed to have my work included, and really looking forward to reading everyone else’s stories.
It’s almost November!
Fine tuning my cookie recipe for the inner editor this November. My knuckle splatts should keep him quiet …
Autumn beach
That’s the pretty part of my visit to the beach yesterday. This is the not so pretty bit of my beach walk:
These I picked up and disposed of, along with other bits of rubbish, Yuck. Fortunately there are plenty of rubbish bins at regular intervals all along the beach both on the beach and on the promenade, so you don’t have to carry the tat very far.
Yes, those last two are single use plastic tampon applicators. Again: YUCK! Ten seconds of use for a thousand years of pollution. Ok beach clean done. Let’s look at nature again .
The gulls were pulling razor clams and mussels from the pools here.
Escaping with Escapements
The sparkling sea
The sparkling sea and a wonderful book. Lunchtime reading…
heart of stone
Type The Clouds 