Tuesday 17th September

Have you seen the moon? Have you seen THE MOON? It's huge! I looked out earlier this evening but it was still behind the bungalows opposite.  Now it has risen, but appears to have become tangled up in the branches of the cherry tree that grows along our road. I expect it will have freed itself in a short while.

We won't be staying up for the eclipse though. Hopefully we'll both be fast asleep. 

I've been trying out my teeny weeny palette. If I had bought the real original one, it would have come with a similar sized sketch book for tiny pictures.

Irresistible. Until you spot the price...

At the moment I'm working out how to manage with just these colours, and only a tiny area, and also testing out how well the paper in my notebook stands up to the watercolour.

I'm pretty pleased with how things are going so far;

(Flash photography always improves pictures!)

I received an alarming advertising email from World of Books, where I buy a lot of secondhand books online;

Oh my word!