August 20, 2013 – 6:32 pm
Photo by Ken Hall. Painted gull is wooed by real gull. They’re not that bright. The front garden is getting a tad crowded.
Sometimes after having spent several years creating cutting edge art using mobile phones, wire netting, old copper cylinders, rubber ducks and Action Men you just have to reassure yourself you can still do the ‘proper’ stuff like drawing and painting. Yep, still got it. That’s OK then. Now …. where’s that calcified tap and my […]
August 19, 2012 – 10:31 am
Yesterday went very well. The sun was out, only one seagull criticised my work and there were plenty of gingernuts to share around. My favourite comment was “Anything can be wonderful when perceived [conceived?] by the right mind.†However I won’t mention the little girl that wandered around and then announced she was bored and […]
February 7, 2012 – 8:51 am
Although it’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey here at the moment, the seagulls are insisting on doing their wooing thing. The noise reminds me of ‘that’ scene from When Harry Met Sally … if Sally had strep. Perhaps, what I had assumed were bird droppings on the new car, are […]
February 1, 2010 – 7:00 am
Surprisingly the Cliff Top Residence sits on the top of cliffs. They are about 150’ high. If you look down the garden you are looking straight out to sea. Seagulls inhabit and fly along the cliffs. Every now and again one or two or three seem to zoom up out of the ground at the […]
January 12, 2009 – 6:00 am
The seagulls think they are flying along the cliff top here and have failed to realise that it’s actually over my garden. So far, luckily, I haven’t been anointed with their good luck charms. The gibbous moon has been keeping a wary eye on them as well. I think my good fortune partly stems from […]