Saturday 31st May - meeting friends

The Swingle Singers having fun the 'Pastime with Good Company'

I've only ever heard them scat-singing Bach, on LP vinyl records back in the 1960s; I think this must be one of their most famous track, Bach prelude in F minor.

Where was I? I wanted the song 'Pastime with Good Company' because that's how we spent yesterday. Last month we went to Dorset in order to be able to meet up with friends who had lived just an hour away but moved to Devon mumble mumble years ago. We hadn't seen each other for all that time, so it was wonderful to get together on a cold but sunny day and discover it was as though only weeks, rather than decades had passed.

Well, wouldn't you just know it, but they were cat-sitting for family quite near us last week, so we were able to have lunch together again! The weather obliged with sun and a warm breeze and I had a lovely lovely day.

While we were waiting I did a couple of very small rapid sketches of people;

The little notebook is half the size of my phone. It's long past time I stopped reading up on how to draw people and just got on with it. At the moment the are more of an aide-memoire than a likeness. Practise, practise, practise...

Out table was by the play area... one moment there was cheerful chatter, next raucous shouting, and a brief interlude of serious wailing- something to do with a toddler and an ice lolly... and then, peace, as they all disappeared for lunch.

I was going to post 'Tuileries' from 'Pictures at and Exhibition' for the playground,  and then I remembered 'The Aviary' from 'Carnival of the Animals' and chose that instead.