Mundane News

[Gravity Aided]

Musk

A blustery day here chez Casa Reynard. Started off hosing with rain, finished sort of clear and a tad chilly.

Slept as well as lady issues will allow. Had a bit of a lie in. Done a bunch of chores, including going through my apple store and wanging the dodgy ones, and taking all of those potatoes out of the plastic packaging and putting them in my pukka potato sack. Also dropped off the parental's prescription, and shoved Christmas up on the loft.

As I walked out of the utility room earlier, I came face to face with a squirrel who had come to investigate the apples. It looked at me, I looked at it, we stood there for about ten seconds, I said "hello" and off it shot into a nearby ash tree.

I'm wondering what Elon Musk is smoking. The man is somewhat off his trolley. Sure, he does have a point, but slander is not the way to go about it. Either that, or he's deliberately stirring the pot. (Masz tu kaduceus Polski. Mąć nim woda, mąć!)*

Plan on having a quiet evening and hopefully get some writing done. I have managed to untangle a knot that was stopping me from completing a passage. Hopefully now I can get on and finish this chapter. I have done precious little in the last three weeks, and I really need to crack on tbh.

Now sat down by the fire watching the news and supping a

*Yep, that's a quote from Stanislaw Wyspianski's "Wesele" that I had to read for A-level. It kind of stuck in my head, thirty something years later...

Musk befuddles me.
Nie rozumiem słowa, które wypowiada, ani stanowiska, które zajmuje
(I don't understand a word he says, or a stand he takes)

 

[Reynard]

I need to do a piece of line & wash artwork for something later this month. Know what I'm doing and how I want to do it. Just can't decide on the paper I want to use. I have four choices.

A4 Cass Art own-brand 300 gsm NOT (very rough texture) watercolour paper.
A4 Bockingford 460 gsm NOT watercolour paper
A5 Bockingford 460 gsm NOT watercolour paper
14 x 10 inch Langford 300 gsm hot-pressed watercolour paper.

Need to decide whether I can get away without stretching the paper. The Cass Art and the Langford will both want stretching without a doubt. The latter I can cut to whatever size I need, however, though usually I halve the sheets.

The Bockingford is heavyweight enough not to have to stretch. I'll definitely get away with it on the smaller piece, but wanting to work in portrait orientation, A5 might be too small and fiddly for what I have in mind. The A4 piece could go either way if I want to work in that size, but if I'm not careful with my washes, it will almost certainly buckle.

Decisions, decisions...

 

[Gravity Aided]

I need to do a piece of line & wash artwork for something later this month. Know what I'm doing and how I want to do it. Just can't decide on the paper I want to use. I have four choices.

A4 Cass Art own-brand 300 gsm NOT (very rough texture) watercolour paper.
A4 Bockingford 460 gsm NOT watercolour paper
A5 Bockingford 460 gsm NOT watercolour paper
14 x 10 inch Langford 300 gsm hot-pressed watercolour paper.

Need to decide whether I can get away without stretching the paper. The Cass Art and the Langford will both want stretching without a doubt. The latter I can cut to whatever size I need, however, though usually I halve the sheets.

The Bockingford is heavyweight enough not to have to stretch. I'll definitely get away with it on the smaller piece, but wanting to work in portrait orientation, A5 might be too small and fiddly for what I have in mind. The A4 piece could go either way if I want to work in that size, but if I'm not careful with my washes, it will almost certainly buckle.

Decisions, decisions...

I am only acquainted with Langford, I used to use Arches. Bockingford sounds interesting. Been a while since I did anything other than watercolor.

 

[Reynard]

Musk

Musk befuddles me.
Nie rozumiem słowa, które wypowiada, ani stanowiska, które zajmuje
(I don't understand a word he says, or a stand he takes)

I think he likes kicking over the ant hills.

Not entirely sure what he's trying to achieve, sticking his fingers into UK politics.

 

[Reynard]

I am only acquainted with Langford, I used to use Arches. Bockingford sounds interesting. Been a while since I did anything other than watercolor.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Langford hot-pressed paper. Mainly that the surface is fragile, and a moment's inattention and you've taken the top layer off... OTOH it's great for working wet-into-wet.

Bockingford is my go-to. It's not too rough, not too smooth and can stand up to a reasonable amount of ham-fistedness.

The plan is for an ink drawing and a monochrome (black watercolour) wash.

 

[Reynard]

Fire banked for the night. I'm off to bed.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
That's a surprise! Everywhere is white. We have about an inch of snow .

 

[fossyant]

Fresh sprinkle of snow for my first commute of the year. Only three days then off to Medera for some vitamin D

 

[biggs682]

Not looked outside yet
As still horizontal but I can hear cars going by , so the world hasn't ended

 

[biggs682]

Frosty but no snow.
First cuppa brewing
Mince has exited the fridge

 

[biggs682]

I'm wondering what Elon Musk is smoking. The man is somewhat off his trolley. Sure, he does have a point, but slander is not the way to go about it. Either that, or he's deliberately stirring the pot. (Masz tu kaduceus Polski. Mąć nim woda, mąć!)*

I think it's all a bit worrying really

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm up. Dog's out in the garden tiddling on the frosty grass. Tea's brewed.

 

[mybike]

I’ve just watching Easy Midlands.news the area around us featured around us. Sharnford was flooded Never seen it flooded before
The Brick layers Arms was flooded We we’re there for lunch on Saturday
Ratby was flooded with only one road still open A considerable amount of building has taken place and drains not coping with the water.This is a village that has an application approved after it went to appeal after it wa initially turned down for exactly the reason the village is currently experiencing
All the building round is has been on prime farm land

Perhaps some one can correct me if I’m wrong but all this building site drains into the drains that was never meant to cope with the extra demand

Field drainage doesn’t seem to be maintained One road I frequently ride along had a ditch that in spring was always full of frog spawn.That ditch now has disappeared .Years ago I can remember when farmers regularly cleared the ditches That road was closed today due to flooding Wether this had anything’ to due with that road .

You have it, they built an estate behind our house where previously had been fields, now our & our neighbours gardens flood. There is a proposal to build another estate behind houses further down our road. Doubtless it will be pushed through with the result of even more flooding.

 

[mybike]

Evening cuppa went down well
Gritters are out and about

Haven't seen any here & the main roads don't appear to have been gritted.

 

[Jenkins]

Good morning from a chilly but bright Suffolk. The early frost appears to have mostly cleared and the sun is almost out.
Coffee has been had with a shortbread finger as a pre-breakfast appetiser and the bedding changed on Monday is currently being dealt with by the washing machine. I think I'll have a couple of hours out later this morning and then clear the shed to give me some room to sort out the new toy.