Paws 🐾

I've read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe innumerable times over the last 40 years. But I only just noticed something. How does the captain of the secret police write a letter and nail it to the floor if he's a wolf?

My old studio 🙁

A long time ago I used to have a studio in town - I now work from home.

Which is not as good (though cheaper) - but  I'm glad I'm no longer there, as the whole building burnt down yesterday. 

I feel for all the small businesses that were there.  

Found this video online. The drone starts travelling along Gordon street if you're trying to orientate yourself.

Cheese and apple pancakes 🧀🍏

This is how we do pancakes in my family - no-one knows where the recipe came from.

You will need

• Pancakes (the crepe sort). We use pancake mix but you could do it properly of course.
• Apples (we used two between three people)
• A similar quantity of cheese e.g.cheddar

What you do

1. Preheat oven 
2. Grate the apple and cheese and mix together.
3. Make the pancakes. 
4. As each one is made, fill with apple and cheese mixture and roll up.
5. Arrange on foil in a baking tray, cover with foil and put in oven for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted 
6. Eat 😋
7. Use up leftover batter (if any) to make more pancakes and eat with lemon & sugar, jam (or this time dulce de leche)

Before tobacco health warnings

Was tidying out some craft stuff, and found these old pipe cleaners. They're real pipe cleaners, not the coloured craft ones you get now. (They came from my Granny.  For craft purposes - she didn't smoke a pipe!)

The text on the back is interesting:

 

WHAT IS A PIPE?

It is the poor man's friend. It calms the mind, soothes the nerves and makes a man patient under all difficulties. 

From the moment a man takes to a pipe he becomes a philosopher.

It has made more good men, indulgent husbands, kind masters and fathers, than anything else in the world.  

STUDY YOUR HEALTH and clean your pipe daily for it is a filter which purifies the smoke before it enters the mouth. 

IF YOU ARE WISE you will smoke two or more pipes alternately and leave a pipe cleaner in those not in use. You will find them all the sweeter.

Rather overblown claims there, maybe?

The fifth of February

I discovered I posted this 10 years ago, but I think that's long enough ago to allow a repeat.

Lyrics by John Finnemore. Music written and played by Susannah Pearse. Performed by Simon Kane, with Carrie Quinlan and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.

Quote Zzzzzzz 😴

"Sometimes the godliest thing you can do in the universe is get a good night’s sleep … If you are among those who become nasty, cynical or even full of doubt when you are missing your sleep, you are morally obligated to try to get the sleep you need."

~ Don Carson

'Life' drawing again

New Year, new habits...

Going to see if I can get back into 'life' drawing again. (By 'life' I mean from photos). It always helps my drawing when I do this regularly - it's like practising scales.

 

Looking at my sketchbook I don't seem to have done any for 5 years, so I was pleasantly surprised that it worked - it helped that it was an easy pose and easy body-type to draw. I used the pose app from AdorkaStock and just drew the first one that appeared.

 

Purple crayon, so I couldn't rub anything out or even smudge out mistakes!