I intend to, haha. Thank you!

It felt good to start on the 'empty' right hand side of the canvas today. I got a bit fed up with re-doing, fine-tuning, and adding to what was already there.
An Lo' and behold, it suddenly comes to live, making the cottage pop!

Not done of course, neither is that right hand upper corner. But happy with the work I've done today :D

Thanks :)

This is where I got the day before yesterday.
Still not finished of course.




Close up of the grass and bark:




I will have to re-do those stairs. I can never ever get stairs right. Really annoying as it seems so simple, just a few lines. Yet I always get the angle wrong.

Thank you, Julie :)

Two days ago I set up another painting. I had wanted to do a shell on the beach, then found the image of this cottage and was so taken by it that I decided to do that first :)
It's a nice continuation of the painting style I began using with the thatched cottage one above.

The work I've done today -3rd session so far- while the storm was raging outdoors.
It's amazing what a difference it makes to have the doors in as they bring depth since they're set back a bit, and also the windows with the warm light.

Not nearly done of course.

Glad to hear you're not getting any of it!
We're now in Code Yellow since 4 this afternoon (hour earlier than they'd said). All in all it wasn't as bad as other storms I've had here.
I don't know anything of a storm Babet, so I gather we didn't get that here, maybe a bit of extra wind but not like a real storm.
From what I've seen and heard the south of UK and most western parts of France got the worst of this one.
As it is it's still raging on in more northern parts of The Netherlands as Code Orange storm.


Let's hope we won't get any storm again anytime soon! Somewhere around 2080 is soon enough, hahaha.

Weathering storm Ciarán. Code Orange until 5 o'clock, then Code Yellow.
4 more hours to go. So far it's not too bad, knock on wood!!
But I've had worse storms here.

Hope everyone in the UK is alright, and France as the latter has Code Red in certain areas.

Delightful, you're up high enough to not get the worst of it, I think? Hope you're okay!!

Storm Ciarán on its way... France, (south of) UK, and The Netherlands going to get badly hit. Since Belgium is in between us en France that would mean them too I gather.

Best prep tomorrow, get groceries I need and put 2 straps on the gates in case it gets real bad.
But I ain't going anywhere Thursday. Unless we're really lucky and it peters out over the North Sea which is highly unlikely...

Thinking... We went back to wintertime last Saturday night. Slowly getting used to it :)

Wire in the Blood -2002 - 6 seasons - 8,3 IMDB rating
British drama - crime - mystery series.

I love it! Don't understand how it never came up when I searched for British crime series. Maybe it did and I didn't check it out.
It's great. Very unusual.
My rating would be a 10 :)

With Robson Green. What a brilliant actor he is!
I first saw him in Strike Back, and he was totally masculine & a leader then, next I saw him as police officer in Grantchester, set in the '50s. Also brilliantly done.
Now as a somewhat weird & aloof and vulnerable psychologist.
Entirely different and yet he manages to truly 'be' them all.

In any case, great series, very much worth the watch!

A wee bit sad/nostalgic.
Had to have a tooth pulled this afternoon, not sure if that has to do with it. I do get emotional when I lose a tooth which I consider losing a body-part. Some don't get that, 'it's only a tooth', but to me it feels that way.

Thank you!

Thank you so much, Di!
I'm really chuffed with it myself, hihi. I had it hanging up when it wasn't even finished as I was dusting & cleaning and needed it out of the way.
Later on I saw it and that was like seeing it for the first time, me thinking, "Bl**dy 'ell! I love it!"

I'm still thinking where I can hang it and I seriously don't know, hihi.
It's reached the stage that I'd need to have another wall in my home hahaha.

Finishing lunch and about to have a shower, then off to ENT for a hearing test.

Posting a photo of my finished painting while drinking first coffee of the day :)

I finished the thatched cottage painting yesterday!
I'm very happy with it. It's been a lot of work, I had a lot of fun experimenting with this new way of painting, and I learnt a lot!

Colours of the photo don't do it justice but with my Xiaomi this is what I get.

Well, not smoking got real difficult when I got trouble with ear infection mid August.
I was in so much pain and misery that I occasionally began smoking again.
Sometimes a few puffs a day, sometimes a few cigs, sometimes smoking all day.

Since the ear infection remained an issue to date, this thing with smoking bits and pieces continued for 2,5 months too.
I did notice it. My hair began to fall out a bit again, coughing a bit, less 'air' even though I smoked much less than before.
Just having a few puffs a day had me waking up with a 'smoker's mouth' in the morning?!
I couldn't believe how much that little already does!?

Now yesterday I went to an alternative therapist as my ear is still a problem. I got the feeling my ENT doesn't know what to do anymore.
The therapist measured my entire body with special scanning material and he could tell I was smoking again.
My Kalium/Natrium balance was -75% which has to do with acidification and toxic stuff in the body.
That was confronting as smoking greatly contributes to that.

So after that I decided it had to be done with, ear infection or no.
I'm back to Step 1 patches for a while (I was at Step 2 when all that ear stuff began).
I do not want to smoke anymore, I'm certain about that, just that my body isn't fully on board with that yet, hihi.

It really is a tough addiction, pfff...
but I'm going for it again!

"He" didn't give them Israel. The allied forced did in some agreement after WW2 as no one knew where to go with the many Jews and no one wanted them in their own country.
So they threw them on Palestinians' shoulders.

The Jews were supposed to peacefully co-habit in their guest country. Didn't work out so well...

OP asks rhetorically "does the world not care?"...
I think maybe we've gotten numb in that aspect.
I've grown up hearing day in day out about the war in Israel region.

Since the allied forces arranged for the Jews to get land in Israel -originally the country of the Palestinians- it has been messed up.
The original people -Palestinians- were quickly pushed out to make space for the many Jews.
So it has been this way ever since the Jews set foot on land there.

Which now would be at least 75 years given a place there post-WW2. The idea had been to peacefully co-habit with the Palestinians.
That went t*ts up and guess who's to blame...

In any case, caring about it does wear thin after some 75 years of hearing the same shizzel every day.
It means 27.375 days at least!
For people under the age of 75 this has been daily occurrence, meaning it's everyone's normal when under 75.
I've grown up hearing this every day. It's like being told every day "Grass is green!" Would you care about that? Not really as you already know this. We learnt as children grass is green and Israel equals war.

Generally we don't get upset about things that are considered normal.

War is sad. They should start talking and put their huge egos aside.
I mean, if they can agree to hold truce over Christmas, they can also agree on maybe ending this Never Ending Misery.