I am a shape collector! Monday's was a template of chemistry flasks, and Tuesday's came out resembling a coffee machine.
This week's six, and six great things this week …

1  We had chatty cocktail hours every evening with our dear friend, visiting from Germany…
2  … and he gave me his old iPhone! A coveted tool - I’m using it just for the camera, which is excellent
3 Got laundry dried outside on the washing line two days in a row, so satisfying to be out in the fresh air
4 The new moon passed without drama this week. I love the fact it is a daytime moon when it is in its new phase - still there in the sky looking at us, we just can’t see it
5 Burns night: we had haggis recently, so we chose sausages this year to go with our neeps and tatties, and it was delicious. One of my favourite lines in the world is from his poem Sweet Afton: “Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den”, so evocative
6 After Burns night the days really start lengthening:
Sunrise 8:20am, Sunset 4:32pm
compared to the darkest days just after the winter solstice:
Sunrise 8.45, Sunset 4:42pm
- a whole 35 minutes extra daylight, getting more and more every day

Thanks for visiting, see you next week!

This week's 6 template drawings using my Dad's old templates, and 6 great things about this week:

1. My lovely bestie flew in from Germany, we have had some great chatty drinks in the evenings. He's not getting any shorter, he seems to be about 6ft 7 these days! (I could be the shrinking one, of course).
2. Back to Binky illustration work on an ongoing project which I am determined to have finished by Easter at the latest. It's a children's book which is top secret until it has been released.
3. The sun is now rising earlier every day - easier to get out of bed!
4. Working page layouts in BookWright, I love that kind of work. It brings out the old graphic designer in me.
5. Stunning frosty mornings with bright sunshine.
6. I am really enjoying collecting templates in my diary, discovering invisible forms. 

Thanks for visiting, see you next week!

Happy New Year indeed - it seems so futuristic to be living in 2020, yet here we are, and it is the present! I started a new diary in which I am collecting shapes from a variety of my Dad's old architectural and naval drawing templates, plus found objects such as packaging materials which reveal interesting forms.
7 great things from the first week of the year ...

1. Brilliant winter sunshine glittering on frosted cars. The whole street looked like a gigantic decorated cake.
2. The poetry of old deserted children’s playgrounds. Children don't play in this old playground any more since a very smart new one was constructed in the park (the new one probably has more safety features!)