Sunrise: Son Risen

Easter Sunday - the day folk of the christian faith celebrate Jesus Christ, risen from the dead.
When I ran a church youth group we would sleep over in the church rooms each easter eve, having a midnight service before bedding down - and then waking just before dawn to the acclamation.

Jesus Christ is Risen Today!
to which we all enthusiastically replied
He is Risen Indeed, ALLELUIAH!

Our sleeping bags were somewhat harder to leave behind, but we would then join other parish members to a dawn cadlelit service in the church followed by a sizzling breakfast provided by an excelent team of cooks.

An Easter Card

At The Barn tonight there was a great piece of card in the recycling bin just crying out to be used - so I doodled you an Easter Card.

God Bless to my readers.

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Mill Pond

Doodled whilst waiting for lunch. I have drawn from this self same spot before on the balcony bench at The Granta Pub in Cambridge.

The building opposite is the Old Water Mill, now Bella Itaila. I remember at one point it was a Sweeny Todd resteraunt.

Nowadays you can hire punts and canoes launching out from this pond from Granta Punt Hire Company

As a teenager we would punt under the building, look up and wave at customers eating their meal at a glass centered table. They would get quite a surprise! Last week I took my daughter on a punt on the Mill Pond, we tried this again and were rewarded by children waving excitedly down at the punt below.

NOT to be tried if you don't like being in a dark damp hole with spiders swinging around on their webs!

Cedric

This little chap is called Cedric, he has spent about 2 years on this island getting up to many different activities in different pictures. Many of these were drawn in letters and never scanned, so lost from my memory - haha. Can't keep archives of everything.

Birth congratulation card

Drawn in permanent marker on a piece of scrap card used as packaging in a parcel. Measuring 23 x 30cm this is the lagest postcard I have drawn and posted.

Hopefully it will arrive flat and still in one piece in Scotland.

Bird Bath

It has bean a beautiful summers day in spring, my sketch pad and I wandered into the garden.

I wonder how, though our garden is a small lawned area with brick walls and a bird feeder, this doodled onto my canvas.