Lunge 6

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Here is another version of my latest computer art.

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Burns Night Ball

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last weekend Teddy, our friend, Melusine, and I attended the Burns Night Ball at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.

Here is a picture of us in our finery.

Teddy wore his wedding suit again and I am (once again) in Ball Dress for His Majesty's 18th Regiment of Hussars. This time I am showing off my rather nice new Chapeaux Bras.

I will post more pictures later.

Until next time

Adieu

Scene of the crime

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Ah, the joys of sharing the house with cats...

I came down this morning to find a partially-eaten mouse on the living room floor

I removed the body and then went back to clear up any mess

I was confronted with a scene from CSI.

Here, an arc of blood where the body lay.

And here, the gruesome evidence of struggle and a dreadful demise...

 

And then- which cat?  Both ( of course) had unbreakable alibis.

I cleaned up and it then occurred to me that, for all that, it was still not enough mouse-blood for the Ritual of Ashkente...

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Lunge 5

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Slowly the chaos reduces...

The large piece of furniture and new wardrobe are now in the house and I have filled the wardrobe.

Here is the next version of my computer art.

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Lunge 4

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The house is in turmoil.

We've got to fit in two large bits of furniture from my parent's house which is now being prepared for sale.

Before we could take them, we had to get new flooring down, because when they are in they are never moving again and the carpet in the living room was in the house when I bought it in 1990.

We've now got most of the new laminate flooring in, but, as we had to move all the other furniture out ( into the sewing room which is now crammed with stuff) we decided we should really complete the decoration in the living room( previously started and then stalled at a third done)

We ( well mostly me) have now got that to half done- enough to get the big bit of furniture into the done half.

Then we finish the room and only then do we start getting the living room back to normal.

On top of that, we are giving up on the old compactum wardrobe in the bedroom and replacing it with one from my parent's house, which means we have to empty the old one and dismantle it for disposal and then  shift enough furniture about in the bedroom for the new one to go in.

I'm a bit sad to have to get rid of the compactum. I've been using it since I was about eight. However, its drawer to hanging ratio is not helpful and the veneer is cracked and flaking off. It  was an interesting piece of furniture with some nice features and I will miss it

I've taken some photos, which I may post later

As a Consequence of all this- and due to the studio also having extra stuff in it-, I'm not getting a lot of artwork done at the moment.

And the cats have made it very clear they DO NOT APPROVE of all the disruption

Anyway.. Here is the next version of the computer art I had finished before this all started...

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Adieu

Lunge 3

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Here is another version of my latest computer art

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Lunge 2

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Here is the first variant of my new computer art

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Lunge 1

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Here is a new piece of computer art.

As usual, I have several versions of this , which I will post later.

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St Andrews Ball 3

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Here are some more pictures from the ball.

And , covered in napkins, I enjoyed the meal...

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St Andrews Day Ball 2

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Here is another picture from the St Andrew's Day Ball

Happy New Year

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Adieu