Wonderful, the fires are under control. The firefighters and locals all worked hard with diggers and made a deep trench all around the moorland area that was on fire and filled it with water. It is now contained and they can concentrate on putting the peat out at last. I believe the firefighters from London, Wales, etc have now returned home.
Much easier sleeping now without the smell of the smoke permeating the bedroom and making me cough and wake with a very dry, hoarse throat. I feel normal, well as normal as I can get, now.
My desk today
Teabags! My new favourite stamping medium. Went to a workshop with Kate Crane (I have been stalking her - three workshops in eight days) in Burnley and this is what we were doing - painting on teabags. Not easy when you are not tea drinkers at home so in readiness I had collected all the teabags I could at two previous workshops.
On my desk you can see at the left some magazine pages and a new journal with some scissors and a pencil case full of black pens. That was a workshop I went to on Sunday with Dyan Reavley but I am saving that for another time. At the back are some of my watercolour tins and a concertina book that is going to hold my teabags when they are all finished. In front is a large paintbrush for Gesso, some teabags waiting to be prepped and a long one with a fish on, unfinished.
Here are the finished ones stuck on pages in my concertina book.
I need eighteen in total so I guess I had better stop 'wittering' and get on. See you all over at Ms Julia's where we meet on a Wednesday ready for our giant blog hop around one another's desks. See you!
