Tuesday 25th February - bouquets of flowers

 I have three vases of flowers at them moment! It's amazing that they are lasting so well. Here's a rough sketch of the oldest on, from two weeks ago;

They are some of the flowers from my father’s funeral. When we started doing his shopping for him, only in 2024, he was taken aback when I added flowers to his shopping list, but after the first week they were a regular addition to his grocery list, at his request. 

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I'm using my tablet and a very basic drawing programme; the last couple of sketches have been done the same way. It's safer than paints and water when I'm sitting on the settee, but I'm still fathoming out how the different 'brushes' and the colour wheel for selecting colours works. It's all a bit hit and miss at the moment.

Do you remember 'Etch-a-sketch' drawing toy? On the advertising it promised so much; then, on Christmas day you unwrapped the amazing new magic toy... and it delivered so little....

this drawing programme feels a bit like that at the moment! 

Maybe I should have persevered for longer with my Etch-a-sketch....

So I'll keep going with this drawing programme then.

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Prayer...

'Exalted manna, gladness of the best,'

Bread of heaven lifted high? Or does this mean we gave been given food of the very highest quality?

Gladness of the best? 

I was going to choose the anthem 'I was glad' by Parry, but then I came across Harry Secombe singing Cwm Rhonda, giving it his all.