Jeudi Journal - Sugar?

 Well I am struggling typing as I cut my finger on a piece of paper and, perhaps because I am on blood thinners, it keeps on bleeding,  third plaster now.  So that's my excuse for the state of my blog today.  Did it work?  I don't want sympathy just you to acknowledge that typing and painting was a bit difficult to do.

To begin with I had a page covered in Victorian Velvet Stain but I did not like it.  I decided to paint over it with a red which I toned down a bit with some white.  Talk about in your face!  I had also been doing an online workshop with Marjie Kemper and one of the things we did was use texture paste through a stencil so the obvious thing was to clean it up by putting it on my journal page.  Some left over paste had to be used up rather than put in the pot so it got quite a bit on it - little did I think about the writing I was going to have to do later.

Anyway the quote this week is "Sorry but I'm, all out of Sugar Coating" and today we are in the home of Petunia the pretty cat and her other half, Bert the bulldog.

"Bert has just got a phone call to say he is to report to his doctor's surgery in five days time for his Covid vaccine.  He's been moaning for a while as to when it will be his turn, thinking he should have had it by now because of his bad chest, but now it has come he is reduced to a bit of a quivering wreck.  You see Bert is afraid of needles!  In fact when Petunia gets her knitting out he turns a paler shade of grey and 'whoa', when she starts to continue with her cross stitch he goes positively ashen.

Poor Petunia has had enough, he has done nothing but moan about him needing the vaccine and now it is here he is moaning that he doesn't think he should go.  She is getting a little tired of going into another room to do her sewing and knitting just because of his "fear" of needles which she seriously thinks is ridiculous and partially because he wants to stretch out on the sofa and watch what HE wants the whole time on television.  She is always finding ways to pacify him about the various phobias he says he has but this time she has had enough.  For the first time in her life she gets angry and yells at him "Sorry but I'm all out of sugar coating".  Then she tells him he is worse than the kids."

This story has come about because they are wheeling out the vaccines like nobody's business here in the UK.  Every night the news is full of the various places where they have set up huge centres in an attempt to get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible.  Some areas are ahead of others but if people will only wait their turn it will come.  (Incidentally this is no reflection on my other half, he is happy to wait his turn, unlike some.). 

I am linking this to Erika's challenge over on Art Journal Journey where she asks you to choose your favourite things.  I think one thing I am very happy about at the moment is that at last it looks as if we might have a more normal life ahead of us - I just pray it is so and the medics and all associated with them  can start to relax a little and have less stress in their lives.