On yer bike....

This is my inauguration into the biking world! Having been stuck in traffic several times this week I have decided getting onto two wheels might be a good idea. This particular set of two wheels is Jonathans bike and don't worry I sat on the back and not in the driving seat! Thought this would be a great place to start:

The helmet, jacket and gloves are mine (it was an expensive day!). Had a great ride, I would have been grinning all the way if the helmet would have let me do so!

This is what the professionals look like....

Artistic DIY

Well the only painting I have done since I have been back is the ceiling and the walls! Trying desperately to finish my studio space so that I may get on with some work in it, but forces seem to be against us. We thought we had nearly finished when a floorboard nail went through a copper pipe (stupid place to put a pipe) and all the water leaked through the floor and the ceiling below! The pipe is mended (see picture) but now we have no hot water!

Consequently, we are going backwards and the studio is in a worse condition than when we started. Now there is a big hole in the floor!

I am considering a set of embroideries based on DIY as this seems to be dominating our life at the moment, and why not use this as inspiration? Copper pipes make interesting shapes when they criss cross each other not to mention the cobwebs hanging from the single light bulb up in the attic above the hot water tank.

Also battling with slugs in the garden. They munched their way through a whole Lobelia plant the other day, little ********'s! I am imagining a stupwork slug leaving a trail of silver thread behind it.....

It's amazing where inspiration can come from!