We’re very lucky in St Albans to have a huge selection of great pubs. I could be kept busy for months sketching the pubs of St Albans. Anyway this one has live music on Wednesday evenings and a great selection of real ales.
We have the most complicated train fares in the UK since the de-nationalisation of British Rail – fares can range from 20 pence a mile to 80 pence a mile dependent on the route, time of day, advance booking, discount cards and whether or not you’re wearing a pink hat. And St Albans to London […]
Life has got in the way of regular sketching, but I fully intend to make amends, so a teeny, tiny sketch to get back into the swing. The blueness of being a corporate drone.
Given the choice of reading magazines about celebrities or chatting to the stylist and sketching I’d rather give the magazines a miss. Do all hairdressers have these rather clever sinks now? They make the job of having your hair washed very easy.
An evening at my son’s school. Not much fun being depressingly reminded of the fact that with the banking crisis and credit crunch and less government support for higher education, our children are going to have to work like dogs if there’s any hope of any future for them.
My seven year old son has started a weekly comic on his blog – so I’m shamelessly plugging it by sketching him filling in the colours and posting the latest issue. Well we do need to encourage the next generation don’t we?
My seven year old son is very lucky to be a member of a Scout group who have their scout hut on the edge of a bluebell wood – so a great location for doing all kinds of woodcraft activities. Once a year all the parents, children and supporters have a great evening in the […]
Looking at my posts you’d think that all we do in St Albans is go to swimming classes. It’s not true, but it is one of the few times that a busy self-employed graphic-designing mother can feel no pressure to be doing something else for family, friends or clients.
I’m fortunate that I only have one child to take to swimming lessons now. When I had three small children with classes spread over a two hour period it was quite a challenge keeping them all occupied and well behaved while one of their siblings was swimming. This mother was doing well getting the homework […]
This demonstrates the truth of the urban sketch. Even though the horse chestnut tree I had stood under to sketch this gem of a Victorian school building, had initially done a pretty good job of being an umbrella from the rain, in the end the rain proved too much. So my blurred, be-spattered watercolour tells […]
We’re fortunate in St Albans because we have a lively town centre because there’s a market held in the main streets every Wednesday and Saturday. We also have a monthly farmers market held on Sundays together with visits from travelling French and Italian markets. So even though it’s a bit less convenient to shop there […]