Emerald City. Watercolour on paper. It's very rare that I use that medium - maybe because someone gave me a load of unwanted tubes? Second breakfast shortly. #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #nostalgia

Ascension. Oil pastel and ink in a small sketchbook. Working on a couple of large canvases at the moment. I do set myself hard tasks. But it has to be done! #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham

Above the Flower Shop. First sexual experience with Mick. I didn't like it really. Bit of a puritan me! That's completely changed over time. Inevitably. #theferrisfiles #nostalgia #mixedmedia #metaphorsaplenty

The village sign being engulfed by new growth. Made liver and bacon casserole yesterday. Enough for 8 meals. Froze ,uch of it. Have to try to spend less on food; it keeps getting more expensive, Starmer! #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

Nettles absolutely everywhere in the woods along the cut. They seemed to have dies back completely over winter, then exploded into life very recently. Love nature! #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #ferrisphotos

Angry birds? Beautiful blue sky out there today. That's nice. Really tired yesterday, working on 2 paintings at once. A week before C comes basck from holiday. Aim to be done by then. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham

Blackhall rocks. That could be the title for a new collection of short stories, if I ever get round to publishing them? The sky is a grey slab again today. I hate it. But at least the new Saturday is a bunny! #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #metaphorsaplenty #nostalgia

The Rijksmuseum. I am making a mental reverse bucket list: places I fear I may never visit again. Add to that people I will not see again, not because they have passed, but because contacts fade and time is short. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #metaphorsaplenty #nostalgia

Posting some past pics. I accumulate masses of art materials, some of which get used a couple of times then they languish is some corner almost indefinitely. These crayons had to come all the way from Mexico. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #nostalgia #metaphorsaplenty

Back in the day how the garden planter looked. It was replaced by a hellebore which dies when I was abroad. Need to go to the garden centre with T to buy yet another. There's a message in there somewhere! #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #ferrisphotos #metaphorsaplenty

Be nice to say the red spot was mine and I had bought this, but then I don't have dosh squittering out of my orifices. I should have asked what was the most expensive piece? Possibly the Gormley statue? #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #ferrisphotos #Cambridge

Red vehicle, blue vehicle. I was going to say 'car,' but the one in the foreground is a van. Actually enjoyed the show at Kettle's Yard. Normally I hate them. But this one was a selling exhibition! #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #frustration #Cambridge

Westminster College from Castle Hill. Only posting 3 today. Too busy. Off to Classical Archaeology Museum to draw. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #metaphorsaplenty #Cambridge

In The Picture. Better hurry up now. Thinking about those I lost contact with: Julian Braidwood, Nigel Brittain, Keith James, and so on, and social media fails to make the links! #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #frustration

Communism. Might grab a Turkish delight before I go out. I do what I want in retirement, but it's a struggle most of the time. Artemis press conference. Bit glib sometimes. #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #mixedmedia #metaphorsaplenty

I have seen a marsh harrier, an avocet, a spoonbill and a bittern recently, and this little guy. Must rush and do a little on the painting downstairs. Giorgia just referred to herslf in the third person. Bit weird! #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #ferrisphotos

Really on it yesterday. I got SEVEN notifications. Almost made it. Decisions about when a picture is finished bothering me this morning. I am doing a large version of a stolen work, but have begun to alter its shape. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #frustration

Dead dogfish, Dunwich. Listening to Meloni on Rai. At least she seems more presidential that a certain orange alien. But it's no wonder the people no longer trust ANY of their politicians. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #frustration #metaphorsaplenty

Cave Boy. The overworked Platonic trope? I thought I'd found a place to mentor in Italy, but turned out to be almost exclusively Polish. I speak not a word of that language. Doesn't matter, but...

House Boy. I adore pizza, and I love repurposing the packaging they used to come in. I now rely on th authentic variety at 'Giovanni's' in town. The 'house' here is a boarding school thing. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #nostalgia

To 'celebrate' my reaching that awful milestone. I was hoping that the new model might have fixed another date to come pose, but no such luck; then I was born under an inauspicious star. Believe me! #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #mixedmedia

Boy and Biomorph. Rubin would have it that the latter characterises BOTH branches of Surrealism, the abstracted and the veristic. Have been doing them since I was 18. Weird, eh? #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #mixedmedia

Blue Arrow. Just opened up a sort of forgotten folder. I used to work as a casual for a company called that, though the meaning is more oblique. About to have second breakfast - a loaded brownie from the deli! #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #mixedmedia

Sculpture Gallery. My brother-in-law threw out most of my previous work. Some might be reconstructed, but doubt it. That'd involve money and assistants. It's all just too much! #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #drawing #frustration

The Solution. I made an installation for COAX, with the help of local schoolkids. It was a joy, but garnered no notice anywhere. I am so tired, both physically and emotionally. Putting off the sertraline for another while. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #metaphorsaplenty #frustration

Some Planets. Watching a vid on FascistTube yesterday, stating that one orbit in the solar system travels at 47km/sec. Feels like the earth is doing the same, but it's a metaphor. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #abstraction #mycottenham

And here after the fall of ordure. But almost everyone bumbles along as if the end of everything was not on its way. And it's not just the fools like Trump and his blind followers. The earth is poisoning itself. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #frustration #mycottenham

End of the World. Got 740 views on TikTok for a 'Revealing my Art' post. Got 8 likes on here yesterday. Feel I am so close to making it. 3 chocolate biscuits now for second breakfast! #theferrisfiles #drawing #metaphorsaplenty #frustration

Gigantic Sh*t. Done a long time ago, but so pertinent. At least there's a bright blue sky out there today, but it feels like a sham. I should stop watching the news! It's all too bleak. #theferrisfiles #drawing #metaphorsaplenty #frustration

Skins. Reminds me of school. PE would have one team play with vests on, one bare-chested. Can't imagine that happening now. Far too suspect! #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

Panurge. Today I have been painting on top of a large piece of corrugated card packaging. Curved surface with gel and emulsion on top. Looks like rain out there. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

A Little Rough. Another painting rejected by the Royal Academy. I should wear it as a badge of courage! Would like to consign it to the LGBT+ Museum at King's Cross, along with he last copy of my hopeless book? #theferrisfiles #oilpainting #metaphorsaplenty #nostalgia #frustration

Gorilla. Only made 2 pics today, but then there are a few under way too. 'Our Ancestors' by Calvina has started really well. Long time since I read anything by him, theough loved him in late adolescence. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #skull

Dandelions have an interesting name in French. I was always told as a child not to pick them because I'd wet the bed. Never happened, but there you go. Loved 'The Dying of the Loght' by Michael Dibdin. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

There is a degree to which taxidermy in museums is a little non-you? Posted a question on fb: Have you been refused by Cambridge Drawing Society? Hoping to stage a Salon des Refuses. Let's see what happens? #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #museum #zoology

I got to he moon before they did. Ok, it's foam in the washing-up bowl, Still no idea why he different froth forms depending on he ration of Fairy to water, and maybe the dirtiness of that water? #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #meaphorsaplenty

Ukraine has slipped into the background because of the obscenity of Iran, so thought I better bring it back into focus. Poster bought in Moscow in 1977, damaged by additions. Time for Tutti Frutti on Rai. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #war

Hunstanton a long time ago. Not really a seaside person myself, unless it be fossiliferous. Blackhall had coal-working waste blackening the sand, but also great pebbles to pick up. Throw out from Dad's I guess. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #frustration #metaphorsaplenty

Out with the DofE kids. Seems a long time ago now. On that particular day the rain stayed away, but there were times when the poverini were drenched. I never did the scheme myself; far too busy with schoolwork! #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #nostalgia #metaphorsaplenty

This is where I went to school, on a government scholarship. If I had gone to Longsands instead I would have been bullied, then hung with the bad boys, then got into trouble for not being a good student very quickly. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #frustration #nostalgia

Back in the day I had a film camera, but the price of processing put me off. Dad had a go at developing slides, but showing them was such an absolute faff. This is Hapton Court. Did some good ones, but couldn't bang out loads. #theferrisfiles #nostalgia #frustration #ferrisphotos

An Artist. The padded spport has 'No.1' subtly printed white on white. Van Gogh or Joseph Beuys? Or me. Never really been one for hats, ut when it's so dashed cold I have to don the bobble. Reading another Dibdin at the mo. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #frustration

Capricorn's Daily Song. If I try to work out other possible meanings for CDS, I coe up with weird combinations, especially in that regular waking-up at about 4.00 in the morning! I was born in January, so this works? #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #frustration

Snowman. Will have to go out. No cereal in the house. Putting off the Tesco order as long as I can. Money down the drain for Coincil Tax and Cambridge Drowning Society. Sorry.. I mean 'Drawing.' #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #nostalgia #metaphorsaplenty

The Boxer. Look at that damn sky again: it's like a snow-filled slab. Spring has sprung, but I see few signs. Astrology said the first 4 months would be awful. Hoping they're right and it'll get better? #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

School Shower. My goodness. A boys secondary with open Spartan 'facilities.' I was shy, some weren't. If I had my time again I would be able to stare and assess. Oil pastel and ink on paper. #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #nostalgia #mixedmedia

Probably part of the Endymion-themed works. 9 more examples of what CDS could stand for to find. Not sure if I'll use all of them. Have NOT used Google, dictionaries or AI. Lie awake inventing. May offer a competition and prize? #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #nostalgia

Better post the other drawing. About an hour and a half. The session refined. Thinking about going to the Museum of Classical Archaeology next time. Bit of a schlepp, but I can do it. Was easier when it was near the Fitz. #theferrisfiles #drawing #gorilla #zoology

Chimpanzee displayed skeleton. Weird the relative size of ribcage and pelvis. Many visitors described the specimen as 'our ancestors.' WRONG. Proving that Joe Public doesn't really undersatnd evolution. #theferrisfiles #drawing #evolution #chimpanzee #skeleton #museum

Kunstwollen. My ex, half German, half South African, said this wasn't a word. Erwin Panofsky coined it, and it is sometimes rendered as 'inner necessity' in English. Badly. But anyway... off to the Zoology to sketch. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #nostalgia