Snow on the Street - for Pa

Before Christmas I started a picture, but with two major events in our lives happening through this time I never got to complete. I think I will keep this half drawn sketch as it is to remind me of when my Pa died.

The Olde Village Pump at Horningsea.

Water Pump at Horningsea.

I tootled off on my bicycle this morning to Horningsea, a local Anglo Saxon village, on a Geocaching Adventure, at the same time armed with my Postcard SketchPad.

Horningsea  is a pretty little village, what really caught my eye was the Olde Village Water Pump.

The box to the left of the tree in the background I am told looks like a Cable Junction Box. It was in fact a Telephone Box. Oops!
The full box was orriginally in the sketch, but the low overhanging branches blocked it out.

Cedric & Max: Return to the Page.

I have not see much of Cedric nor Max recently, singularly uninspired in my sketching. But today, pleased as punch, they walked quite randomly back into a letter I was writing and sat down  at top and bottom corners of the page.

I say, 'sat', but indeed Cedric was swimming in the warm waters around his island.
Max was heartily singing Camp Fire Songs, standing maybe a bit too close to the fire for safety. I must speak to him about that.

The letter is almost finished now, but will be posted after Final Collection tomorrow to plop onto S's doormat on Saturday. I always aim for a Saturday delivery, so much nicer to receive a Hand Written Letter on a Saturday as the weekend is just kicking in.

Foraging Plod

Like many of mine, drawn on a blank postcard, and will be safely in the postbox before last collection tonight.

I sketch directly onto 140 lbs, 6" x 4" card using an HB pencil. Most important to always have a good clean eraser handy, and in some places to artistically smudge the sketch rubbing over with my fingertip.

Finally I 'Fix' the sketch using hairspray to stop the sketch accidentally becoming more smudged in the hands of the postman or recipient.

Maundy Thuursday

In the Garden of Gethsemanie, Jesus knows he's was facing a stormy few days, sure though of his destiny.

Advertising Bikes

This postcard, sketched at lunchtime, is winging it's way Northwards beyond the border.

More and more recently bikes have been popping up around Cambridge with Advertising Boards strapped to the frame. Today I saw one with a Free NewsPaper dispenser attached to the back rack...

Vicar anon

Drew this whilst bouncing around on the Citi 6 today, took most of the 20 minute journey.

Waiting in for my new Blackberry to arrive

I thought of how we used to communicate.

Drawn today, 24th Jan 2012

 

And so, after such an exciting day, and having enjoyed communicating with the world

 

 it is time I lifted my wearisom body in the direction of snooze land.

Goodnight.

GoogleMaps!

Following my last abortive trip to hospital I am preparing to return - this time as a day patient only. Hooray. :)
The procedure involves feeding a camera through my mouth down to the stomach so Doc can possibly determine a reason for the incredible pancreatic pains.

GoogleMaps despatched a driver to Plot the Pancreatic Hills

My orriginal thought was to draw a TV Crew preparing to enter the unknown, but somehow a GoogleMaps journey seemed more appropriate.

Sinking Moon

The moon looked so magnificent this morning.
This was the view before I made my porridge. Breakfast eaten the moon had sunk behind the roofline.

Bin Surfin'

In a phone call yesterday to Scotland we chatted about the high winds, 150mph! - and the fact that maybe the wheelie bins needed to be weighed down.
This brought to my imagination the new sport of Whellie Bin Surfing.
This is the first draught of what will no doubt make it to my Postcard Series...

GrassHopper Ablutions

Found in the bathroom, kitchen, shower - whilst on holiday...

Candle 'n Quill

A Post It Note doodle using a black fibre pen.

Evensong

At 5 O'Clock the Church bell struck, calling worshippers to Choral Evensong. It is good to maintain a rhythm of prayer, worship and praise in our daily lives.

LightHice

The plural of Mouse is Mice;

I therefore submit the plural of LightHouse is LightHice...

We drove up to Blackpool to share in wedding celebrations, the theme throughout the entire day was the Lighthouse, at which Carl had proposed to Emma. Maybe he had already mapped out the thematic idea in chosing a romantic location, in which case I will not be surprised in 20 years time to hear they are living in their very own Lighthouse.

Subsequent to my drawing the LightHice above I have been told they are either red & white OR blue & white - but never Red & Blue. Seems my own LH are somewhat unique.

Seeing Fiona off to France

We set off very early to the bus stop. I do hope she makes all her bus, underground, train, ferry and train connections and changes OK! Have an excellent summer Fiona.

Modern Monk

Men's Breakfast was the inspiration for the sketch part of this postcard. Ben had placed his laptop on the rather wonderful Scripting Desk sat in the corner of our hosts living room.

"Faith, Words, Action" and Colossians 3:12 (oops, spot my written error!) were both inspiration from our service at church later on.

What I must remind myself when drawing on the Postcard Pad, make sure the pad is the right way up. The picture above is infact upside down to the PostCard markings on the reverse.

Moored up near Granchester

I decided to combine my love of the river, bit of keep fit, catch up with some letter writing and do some painting all in one trip today.

I didn't take my phone nor a watch, and was surprised to discover I had spent almost 5 hours afloat, or sat on the bank sketching out my art work.

The original was in fact twice the size of previous postcards, this one A5. I think it will have to be posted in an envelope rather than as a postcard as all my others have been.

Now, in Lloyd Grossman style voice; "Now to whom shall I send a postcard like this?"
So if you are checking out this blog because you know me, maybe you should be watching your letterbox too.