Trying to cram too much into today. I got up fairly early and drove to Perth to get some coffee (for JIC) and tea (Scamp was off into town to meet up with Annette). Got the coffee and tea and also got myself a book. Another book. My final purchase was some mounting board to frame up a few of my masterpieces. Oh, yes, and I finally handed in some books and DVDs to a charity shop. See Hazy, I’m doing it, almost like the book says a little at a time. “Start with your sock drawer”.
Perth was beautiful in the morning light. Cold and windy, but clear blue sky. It matched my new blue jacket, worn for the first time in public. Like all things, it’s a compromise. There are some things I like about it and some I’m not so sure about, but the labels have been cut off and it’s been worn now, so it’s a ‘keeper’.
The book I bought was about sketching, especially portraiture which is one of my big stumbling blocks at the moment. I’m taking Fred’s advice and trying to build the face from the bone and muscle structure, because that makes sense. Rules, it’s all about rules. If you’re good, you can ignore them and just draw. I need those supporting scaffolding lines.
Drove home, but unfortunately left the brilliant blue skies behind and gathered more cloud and showers as I drove south. Went to B&Q to look for materials and prices for Scamp’s idea of duckboard to put some of the myriad of plant pots on. Saw some decking that might provide the surface and some treated square timber that will be the support. Meant to get some beetroot seeds to plant in the raised bed, oh yes, and some peas too. See what I mean? That’s what happens when you try to cram too much in.
Lunch was a grabbed roll ’n’ sausage and a cup of tea, before measuring the space in the back garden that the duckboard would have to go on and found that indeed one length of decking and one length of square support would provide one square plant support 800mm x 800mm. Perfect.
Did a wee bit of painting and then Scamp sent me a text to say that she was on the way home. Where did the afternoon go?
Went out to salsa tonight but met Colin in the carpark. Oh no, It looked like Jamie wasn’t taking the class and it would be another of Colin’s “Slow – Quick – Quick” Salsa/Ballroom classes. It was worse, it was a Cha-Cha class. Some of the women weren’t too pleased. I just grabbed my jacket and left. The man needs to realise that salsa is totally different from cha-cha. He’s a good teacher and very inventive, he’s simply on the wrong track these days. We don’t want ballroom. That’s not what we signed up for and that’s why the company is called Academia de SALSA.
Beautiful sky on the way home, but I didn’t have a camera, so this morning’s shot of a lane in Perth is my PoD.