@deadinkbookshop.bsky.social dropped in today by chance and can’t begin to explain how good this bookshop is. Exceptional the knowledge of the of the guy in there, (big tall lad) sorry didn’t ask for names. Get yourself in there for coffee and books. Uplifting to find.

I’d go to bed but the cat seems to comfy to move

View from the back garden right now

Sketching tonight while the Ashbourne Town Band played a Christmas Concert at Onecote Church. Polychromos and Oil pencils on Light Blue A4 great window display

So paint delivered, kitchen painted, discovered it’s been mixed to the wrong colour, 10 hour day, regroup tomorrow, to tired for sketching, so going to watch some early series Landscape Artist of the Year that I’d never watched until this year. that sums up my day

The bottom of our street

Midnight in the Dales from the Attic Bedroom

Wanting to keep all my fingers, looking forward to having a blast with this 70’s Germany🇩🇪 gizmo later

Let’s start with a regular week of sketching for fun - on threads or here and X, they’ll be more from time to time