I m never allowed to forget im t1d, a terminal condition, the blood glucose sensor lasts 2 weeks max but is fucking impossible to get from the GP &/or pharmacist with minimal fuss - even using the NHS app (in plenty of time) I gave up at "Oh, oh, I know! Get an emergency 111 script . . .".

"Equal but opposite", for every Eton Mess there must be a Hollandaise. . .

How to make friends and influence people. . ?

Get the picture? Satire, grotesque theatre but stylish. . . Studio visits and enquiries are welcome. garethwmorgan.com Sydenham Artists Trail will be during the two weekends 12-13 and 19-20 September 2026.

We've had a change of heart, well several really. . . but nearing the end of the long journey. . . hopefully. . . maybe. . . oil painting. . .

50% of British voters think that Israel is committing genocide. Just 17% disagree. 55% think the UK should no longer consider Israel an ally. 15% think the UK should be an ally of Israel. That's the latest YouGov polling. Support for Israel is a fringe position in Britain.

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

The President Is a Lot Smarter Than You Think. . . (apologies to Gary Trudeau). . .

It had to be done 🤷‍♂️

The Guilty. The Domar. Russell Tovey is excellent as a rather complicated copper. The only super, intense drama I need see today, thank you. . .

After an extended period of going backwards. . . Trump Gazza, "They're here". Oil WIP

Back in hotseat on the 185. I d of had the concrete cat facing the on coming traffic. . .is it to late?

The Latter Day Starmerbot. I find this interesting . . . I keep writing to LFoI MP la la la . etc . .

The Splendid Catford Cat, as seen from the 185 hot seat. .

David Sedaris. . .

Life drawing: A1, Charcoal. . .

Azteca stadium was breached 👏👏👏

2-3 England but for how long? The houses up the road face the dawn which their windows beautifully reflect. Heart in mouth watercolour drawing.

It’s just amazing what she’s seen 🫣

We’re all dooomed 😬

One last Starmerbot for 5 AM Monday morning road, why not?

Strawberry moon, sketchbook. . .

An interesting lady 🤔

It's just an illusion. . .

Life drawing A1 charcoal

Club not country says Riabouchinska!

The final lazy Flip-Flop-Starmerbot?

Thanks to the staff of the Noël Coward Theatre who kindly put a TV on in the bar for me to watch the performance because I can't find the theatre mode on my OmiPOD and if you turn the PDM off the pump beeps to tell you and everybody else you've still not read the instructions . . .

Many of my great grandmothers would be Southern Ladies on their way to California, which is a bit weird if you think about it. . . oil painting, jumble in process. . .

Has the axe again been wielded at the infamous Red Lion, Sydenham, South London. . .

Hockney quipped he didn't teach people draw he taught them to see. I m not so sure, abandoning my tiny film still and just trying to put what I think is there there seems to work better but it probably not what's his face🤷‍♂️

Life drawing. A1, Charcoal. . .

We need to be careful about invasions of immigrants with their own dangerous ideology or we'll end up wil people like me. . . c1900

Tones they are a changing, I painted a pizza with a spoon. . .

I think he, like me, is listening to too much bluegrass. . .

I finished watching How to Get to Heaven from Belfast last night , top bananas, for a number of reasons. . . www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#Penge artist-in-residence, urban provocateur* and occasional rubbish poet Cosmo Chancer's got a new poetry #zine coming out later this week. Here's a little taster... *That's his phrase, not ours. 🙄

Mike D: I just hope it’s fun for others and not overly serious, because let’s be real, I’m releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality. Me: Rocks mate! faroutmagazine.co.uk/beastie-boys...

I feel like tofu tonight (does tofu dance).

Did I guess right 🤔

Mother Courage and Her Children. Bleak. A bit like "The Road" but worser, predicably. . . Maybe, well, a bit like the world today. . .

It's quite strange to come face to face with a painting I ve spent a long time looking at photos of. . . And an ancestor. . .

In deciding to see the world and take the bus not the train/tube, Mrs M has made a terrible mistake, you can talk on the bus😃

EXPLAINER FOR NON-ARTISTS: When you've been looking at a painting for too long, turn it upside down to reveal what you're not seeing, or use a mirror over your shoulder.