Thursday 21st May - at last!

 The wind has moved from the northerly chills to softer, kinder, and more importantly as far as I am concerned, a warmer direction. 

Somewhere I saw a cartoon of a woman, announcing that she was solar-powered. I get that, and I'd add temperature sensitive. Like the flying ants that suddenly appear after a couple of warm days in the summer, I tend to prefer lying low until sun, wind and temperature all combine to the right kind of weather. 

It's ages since I reached for my pen and paints, but I saw a demo on the Internet a while back and thought it looked pretty straightforward...

I can always see what I could have done differently, but I'm still pleased with this very quick effort. 

We were out on Tuesday taking a bundle of books to sell back to World of Books. It was a bit of a mission trying to find the tiny and well-disguised Morrisons Daily shop where the parcel had to be dropped off. 

It was in a nearby overgrown village with the most labyrinthine mess and muddle of interlocking car parks and one-way systems that could possibly have been crammed into such a small space. After many dead ends, much reversing, and literally going round in circles we found it - job done.

I'm so behind on my New Year Resolution of '2 bags of stuff out of the house every month'. Two bags of shredding, three bags waiting for a charity shop run, and these books brings the total to six. For the year. So four more to go then to catch up!

(Don't tell BB but I'll only get the princely sum of £5.37 back, minus 90p for the parking, and fuel to drive there... next time I might just as well give the books to charity!)

However the ox-eye daisies were everywhere, brightening up what was otherwise a dull and damp afternoon,  which reminded me to the daisy tutorial.