No real plans and work at Tom's house is pretty much finished. Tenant supposedly moving on Sept 1. Hottest July and the sunniest. 34 as I write this on 3rd. It's quite scary where this is going. This is the painting. This view is as you come down to meet the main road at Aldsworth. Heard two days later tenant couldn"t get guarantors. New ones ok. For those of us who can remember 1976 it was a glorious summer and now 50 years later we are having another to remember. Will it be another 50 years, probably not. The lovely creamy grasses nod at you along the country roads. I love it. And this field of corn could be France. Look at all those clouds and not a drop of rain. A track I always pass. Dead tree with owl box. Nearby semi abandoned building. The road to Meysey Hampton Feelie and I drive every week to flute. Brave little daisies in the drought. The track through the...
Heading for 10 day heatwave of over 30. It gets boring. Lying down a lot, reading a bit, have sore leg still. I say reading but after about 4 pages I drop off. So lose the thread. The view from my desk. The green bag is covering the mechanism of the bowling machine in case of rain!. England playing Argentina in semifinal of World Cup. The halves are broken by hydration breaks. This one straw bale gets caught by the early morning sun which I see from my bedroom window about 5am. Painting this scene And on paper. Today, 19th we have yet another Prime Minister. Andy Burnham. Fun with pastels. A lot of excitement among twitchers as an Asian long tailed shrike is in Eastleach. Taken by Forbes family. I'm doing a butterfly check and this red buddleia is a favourite for them as well as bumblebees and hummingbird hawk moths. Now that we are under a hosepipe ban these little daisies are a boon....