Category: Favourites
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Sometimes, odd things happen
Indeed. Normally, every Monday morning at 10am the air raid siren goes off. Absolutely diabolical noise it makes, which sends chills beneath my skin and fills me with dread. Awful. I can imagine how fearful it sounded when it was actually needed, but nowadays I think it’s just sounded to test it. During the 1970s,…
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Another Cloud Covered Night for Starwatching
Those Perseids have eluded me again Sigh. I’ll have to wait until next year now! One day – ONE DAY – I WILL get to see them, in person, with my very own eyes! However, coming soon to the skies (around October 7th) are the Draconids, when the constellation of Draco (the Dragon) will be…
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The Perseids… again
Once again, it’s time for us to fly through the Perseid Meteor Shower. The major part of the shower reached its peak earlier today, but there are still some meteors out there that we’ll be passing through again tonight. It’s funny how we only go through them at night, considering we’re all sharing the same…
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Sunflower
#WorldWatercolorGroup The monthly adventure over at Doodlewash this month is Share Your Favourite Things, with one of Charlie’s suggested prompts being ‘favourite flower’. Now, I was going to paint a watercolour of the River Mersey, when I suddenly realised it was flower and not flower! I think I like all flowers… sadly, it’s something I…
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Mars
Inspired by Laura during last month’s World Watercolour Month, I wanted to have a go at painting on texture. Now, I know that I haven’t got painting on a flat surface down to a tee yet, but that’s only details. Off I went to the art shop and bought myself a tub of texture paste.…
The Mansionic Perspective 