Drove back from the Cotswolds to Plymouth in slow traffic to be reunited with Otto. ****
Went to a friend’s 50’th birthday party, the night included talking to new friends and old friends, lovely dinner, Music quiz and lots and lots of dancing till the early hours.
Final day making figure sculptures with the Dutch artist Frode Bolhuis..a very well spent week. Afterwards we drove back to the Cotswolds to Margie’s sister’s house. A couple of beers was medicine for a bombshell of a text received just before we did our final exhibition,cancelling 2 months of future work I had coming up with Disney. You got to roll with the punches….*****
This is the basement of the hospital where my locker room is.
Passing through the halls after work hour work out.
Maybe you can see me?
Working on our little people. Sculptures, learning, being with like minded people and getting to hang out with my close friends, Margie who lives in Chicago made this a heart warming week. *****
On my way home from work, this is the corner just past The peace park, appreciating the blue sky dotted with big dramatic white clouds.
Made a figure who I thought was pretty damn cool! Another great day on the course with Frode Bolhuis. ****
Pizzas from the freezer spiced up with real parmesan and fresh spinach, enjoyed in the sunny kitchen with a non-alcoholic peach beer.
Frode Bolhuis showing us how to make a polymer clay figure. The ease and grace with which he placed the fingers and feet on was a delight to watch. Had delicious curry in an authentic little hole in the wall place a guy at the museum suggested. *****
Had the day off and the sun was shining, so went for a run on a new route, passing this sun under a bridge and kept running til I felt like stopping after 16km. First long run in years.
Day one of our sculpture course with Dutch artist Frode Bolhuis. Polymer clay, learning, mixing colours, making patterns. A group from all over the world, Australia, Hong Kong, Russia, Ukraine, The US. Very cool to be here. ****
Spotted two fighter jets flying side by side close to each other and one of the jet planes spewing out black smoke.
If you look closely you can see a stripe of black smoke behind the red building on the right.
The jet planes are two small splatches in the horizon near the white building on the left.
A mission of a day. Up early…drove back to Plymouth, dropped Otto off, repacked. Drove to the Cotswolds, had a sandwich, a quick shower, picked my friend Margie up who is over from Chicago and drove up to Derby. Had a funny evening in a local pub garden drinking a Guinness and listening to open mic night. ****
A gorgeous late summer Sunday, blue sky and warm weather and great big waves at the beach.
Had champagne for breakfast, went for a lush swim before lunch and before dinner jumping and whirling in the waves.
BBQ for dinner and then back to the city after sunset.
A weekend in Cornwall with Leo Sayer’s drummer, Steven and his new band. Good times walking, chatting, relaxing then dancing to a couple of bands. I didn’t know many people and then one girl gave me a huge smile. It was so uplifting and friendly and made me realise what I do for other people with mine. The power of the smile really hit home that evening. ****
Waking up to beautiful sunlight spilling into my summerhouse in the morning, love this little sanctuary.
This parasol was used a lot at Boomtown for shade and locating us in a crowd….it was used and abused as we danced…it broke but today I fixed it. Fixing it reminded me of one of my favourite memories of India when I saw a man working quietly in the street fixing umbrellas. Something the west could learn about instead of wasting broken things *****
Long work week and lots of activities during the week, so a very lazy Friday night dinner at the summerhouse; canned food.
Still delicious.
Colposcopy clinic followed by a shady walk in Tamerton Foliet by the estuary *****
My little Japanese universe; my Dojo in Valby, always a good time training.
Oil change, new front tyres, picked up tools from my studio….Otto in the scorched grass of Central Park 2025. A hot summer *****
Work and then home on really hot late summer day, too lazy to cook and a local restaurant had a work day deal, so a normally expensive meal became affordable.
And yes that is delicious caviar on the left of the plate.
Oops….no photographs taken by me today….a day of resting and snuggling Otto. A scorcher of a day…best to lay low 😉 *****
Work, Aikido and then home in time to enjoy the beautiful evening light brightening the city.
Jessie swinging her poi at the artists’ crew bar as the sun was about to wake up….an hour or so later 3 lovely strangers helped me untangle the lights and curlers from my hair in the morning sunshine *****
Work, boxing training and then home and make a delicious cæsar salad.
Just me and Eva Lazarus hanging out watching a brilliant reggae band at Boomtown together 😉 *****
Visiting Hjerk Kirkevej in Jylland, seeing this Big Bird of prey circling above the surrounding fields.
A spontaneous ride on the big wheel. Another funny day of playing, dancing and music. Boomtown is a marathon. Not for the faint hearted!*****
Celebrating my uncle’s 70th birthday in Faldsled, Fyn. Nice to chill and catch up with family.
They have a beautiful garden and are an inspiration to keep nursing my own summerhouse garden.
Mungo Hi Fi and Eva Lazarus on the Adena Stage. So much good music. So many stages…Today Boomtown went up a gear.
The view from work early friday morning.
Take the stairs to the 15th floor 4/5 days.
Dancing to the Subbus, Boomtown.
Busy day in an active week;
Work, Aikido and then home to cook a nice pasta dish with tomatoes, courgette, chili, garlic, onions and coriander flower and seeds.
Met up with the crew at Lidl before heading into my first ever Boomtown. We’re all camping in artist camping, close by but not together as I’m in my van and they’re in a big tent 🥰 *****
Everyday to and from work I bicycle past a small park where this frog is sitting.
Today I stopped and went in to see the frog.
My uncle helped make this frog decades ago and once in a while it gets a little facelift/brush up. It is in Folkets Park ( the People’s Park) in Nørrebro.
Left London and drove past this beautiful lady. Visited my parents for the night and played Scrabble with my Mother. *****
After work bicycled to Amager to get Copenhagens best Brunsviger ( a typical danish birthday cake; Breaddough cake with a sugar coating) for Peters birthday.
Then home to make a nice dinner of cold potato salad and chicken.
This perfect rainbow appeared during dinner and it was hard to take our eyes of it and pictures don’t do it justice.
A solo visit to the Portrait Gallery to see the Jenny Saville exhibition. Then a meet up with Jessie and friends wig shopping for Boomtown. I bought curlers. Then a date with my bass player in a rooftop cocktail bar in Peckham Rye. A good day. *****
Having the day off, starting the Monday with Aikido morning training and coffee afterwards.
This really pretty ikebana is made by one of the Dojo members.
It’s on display below the kamidana. The Kamidana (神棚, lit. ’god/spirit-shelf’) are miniature household altars provided to enshrine a Shinto kami. They are most commonly found in Japan, the home of kamiworship
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