Cooking I made a batch of Jamie Oliver's Scuffy Aubergine Lasagne today. This is a favourite recipe. It's "scruffy" because you just break up the pieces of lasagne and chuck them in - no faffing about with layering or anything! It also has everything in it so it's a really good meal just…
I've been busy this week! Highlighting magic As I mentioned in my previous post, I discovered a brilliant new tip for highlighting drawings and paintings recently. In common with many others, I have struggled for years with this because most white pens don't live up to expectations - they are either too watery…
Chemistry is a wonderful thing A chemical experiment... ...gone wrong. Oops, indeed. Kitties Nothing wrong with the chemistry here, I am glad to say.
It's all the twos today! Two new pages of doodle patterns and two kitty pics! Doodle Leaf motifs As before taken from various YouTube videos and with some of my own embellishments and ideas. Kitties Lily, desperate for her tea. Note the determined stance of the back legs, and the insistent paw reaching…
Health update - more frustrations! On Sunday I had my CT scan in Exeter as arranged. When I had my first scan there, back in the summer of 2019, Mr. Daniels, the consultant, had said that he wanted me lying on my stomach for it, and when I arrived, there was nothing on…
Exciting new art materials Derwent Coloursoft coloured pencils I have been doing more drawing and colouring recently, and have become increasingly frustrated with my limited set of cheap colouring pencils which are perpetually breaking, so I decided to treat myself to a decent set - the first I have ever owned. I did…
Neurographic Art Chi Rho Tree of Life I decided this picture needed a few more finishing touches, so I added some more lines to the tree roots, and also emphasised the shape of the cross a bit more, by adding some more brown colouring. I think it looks better now. Here it is…
Health update Yesterday I had my long-awaited outpatient appointment with Mr. Daniels, the colorectal surgeon in Exeter. This referral by Torby Hospital for my third parastomal hernia repair has been a catalogue of delays, with a CT scan four months after my initial appointment, then getting lost in the hospital system for another…
An interesting video came up in my YouTube feed today - a tutorial on neurographic art. I had never heard of this before and it looked intriguing. This art form was invented by Pavel Piskarev, a Russian psychologist, in 2014, with the theory that it would develop more neural connections in the brain.…
Health Update I had a surprise phone call on Friday from the Exeter hospital, totally out of the blue. It has been so long since I heard anything since my initial referral three years ago, and due to getting lost in their system for months after my initial appointment and subsequent CT scan…
