Three things
Smoking Ban starts in Scotland...
British Summer Time begins...
Mother's Day...
Red Writer on 03.26.06 @ 08:18 PM gmt [more..]
Sunday, March 26th
Saturday, March 25th
Cheesy, I know but.....
.... "The joy you send out never leaves you. Instead, it carries you along.
Be generous with the joy you express to others. For the more of it you give, the more of it you'll have.
There is no end to the joy that is within you. To know and experience the value of that joy in your life, set it free and let it flow into your world.
You have everything you need to make a joyful day today. For all you need is to let the joy be.
Spread joy, and you rise to a more enlightened perspective. Spread joy, and you build a more positive world.
When you find yourself longing for more joy in life, remind yourself to let it be. Spread joy, and you will surely know it."
Ralph Marston
OK, so let me know if you have managed to spread some joy today. I have - just gave SYD money to go shopping. Well, who said joy had to be morally pc!
Red Writer on 03.25.06 @ 12:13 PM gmt [link]
Future is brighter
Well, I'm slowly climbing out of the doldrums. Through all the stress I'm beginning to see the funny side of things again...
Red Writer on 03.25.06 @ 12:00 PM gmt [more..]
Friday, March 17th
Dawn Chorus
Still dark at 5am, this little bird was singing it's heart out (This is a bit of an experiment as it was saved on my phone and opened in quicktime so hope you can all hear it. It calls itself a .amr file but not sure what that is! Let me know if it works please.) Prize for guessing which bird it is!
Red Writer on 03.17.06 @ 02:22 PM gmt [more..][someone said]
Wednesday, March 15th
Spreading Too Thin
Seems like I've done it again. I spun yet another gossamer web, a diaphanous silk and cast it over my world. It touched many things for a short while but the web is breaking, the silk is tearing and the spider is falling from it's ephemeral world into a big black void.
Red Writer on 03.15.06 @ 05:07 PM gmt [link]
Monday, March 6th
Pastel Disaster
Anyone out there know how to get several big blobs of fixative off a pastel drawing? I did one I was really pleased with yesterday and which I was going to put in for assessment but in spraying it a few blobs of fixative (rather than a fine mist spray) landed smack bang in the middle. I thought they would dry out but they haven't and now I don't think I've even got a finished piece from the weekend. 
Red Writer on 03.06.06 @ 06:28 PM gmt [link]
Officially Gone
Well it's official. I've left my last job. The last bastion of keeping in touch, the email account I've had for seven years and which I was clinging onto has been redirected so that someone else gets my mail!!!(without my permission or knowledge!!!) so it had to go and I've asked the C&IT people to delete me. I really don't like the thought of someone else picking up my private emails. I have to say I'm a bit gobsmacked that it was re-directed without anyone even asking/notifying me. There was a clear message on it which had been on from the day I left telling people who to contact but there were personal things still coming to me which I would preferd others not to see but which I couldn't seem to redirect. Ah well, there's loyalty for you. At least it lasted a few weeks. Pity really, It makes me feel quite sad and I guess the way it's been done suggests someone felt they needed to see my emails and that makes me feel slightly violated. It was my email address and now it's dead. The final link gone. I wish I'd deleted it immediately myself. I have an incling that if things carry on the way they are, the new job will be going fast too. Some things are just not worth the extra money.
Red Writer on 03.06.06 @ 05:12 PM gmt [link]
Sunday, March 5th
Art and more art
Just spent the last two days in the studio on an art weekend. It was so good to be drawing again. I haven't done much since last June!! So two whole days was fantastic - apart from the fact that there was little or no heating (all heaters directed at the model only) which you don't really notice until you stop when the models have a break, but which has left me with a numb tip of my right index finger! The first day I did have a few thoughts about why I was there as I felt as if I was right back to square one and my drawings were scarsely above primary school level but a couple of reasonable pastel sketches eased me back into things slowly. Then more pastel, charcoal, oilbar and pencil and then back to pastel today. By the time I was on the last piece of the day today, I finally realised, I really enjoy this and I enjoyed seeing people I haven't seen for ages. I really don't enjoy working and I could give it all up right now if someone was kind enough to pay me enough money to do so. I know, only five weeks into the new job and I'm having second thoughts - not good.
Red Writer on 03.05.06 @ 05:33 PM gmt [link]
Friday, March 3rd
Artistic Plagiarism
At my jewellery class last night one woman had blatantly copied the idea I was working on for my bracelet as she showed off a piece she'd made during the week. To say I was annoyed is a slight understatement. And the worse thing is, I don't think she even realises what she's done. The only thing I could say when she showed it to me was a pathetic "oh, that's like the bracelet I'm making" which really didn't emphasise the internal anger and the fact that, as a non-violent person, I nearly decked her.
Red Writer on 03.03.06 @ 07:13 PM gmt [more..]