Month: November 2007

This unusual creature is our Cat Milly. Aged 14 she has an annual clip because she gets matted… Her tail looks like a feather duster and she has socks on…She looks rather weird for a few weeks until her fur begin to grow back….

I’m finally home and working in the shed.It’s 2.45 am in San Jose, but 9.15 pm here so I’m doing well. Grand Daughter, miss Tilly is delighted to have found me in the ‘shed’ when she arrived home from day care today. Her smile was worth coming home for. We  had a drama on board…

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I’m going home.

I can’t believe that I have no more classes for at least 2 months….I feel a bit disappointed that my teaching year has come to an end. It’s been wonderful. I really couldn’t have asked for a better year.I’m sitting here in the San Fransisco airport overlooking a sea of lights as I wait to…

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Just who is “Anybody”?

At a lecture today I met a lady who made the comment…. "I remember you before you were anybody"? Well really just who is "Anybody", what does that mean? It was a nice comment, and let me to share with you the reflective Notebook I have been writing over the past few months which relates…

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It’s been a long day.

I finished some illustrations on the plane and arrived in San Jose after 3 plane flights. It’s been a long day…. I photographed the dry earth of El Paso and the dancing lights of San Jose….

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.  ~Lillian Smith

The places we work in.

Been up since 4.30 and I’m now in the airport in El Paso Texas. I’ve always been taken by the carpet here, two bright green lizards entwined…… I’m  crunched up in a corner standing at a high table… it’s the only place I can get a power point. I’m facing a bright blue green wall…

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