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Eastbourne – a grey day
A day for getting up late, walking the promenade and reading the Sunday paper.
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Eastbourne paragliders
We’re back at Eastbourne and our walk took us on a gentle climb along the lower level of the hill before a steep climb to the top. We’re hoping the weather stays fine for more cliff top walks. Today there were many paragliders, making for some rather nice images.
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Epsom & Ashtead Commons
On a lovely summer day (still!), an easy, level walk through two commons. though the elevation image might give one the impression that it was up and down all the way.
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The NotAnArtist resurfaces
It’s been over a month since I last had out my acrylics and it was probably about the same time that I last sent cards of my paintings to the two little ones. So here are two more efforts by yours truly, NotAnArtist.
I’m very aware that I’m not really progressing, despite have bought or been given some cheap art books such as How to Draw Anything, Acrylics in 10 Steps, Painting With Watercolours, Oils & Acrylics, Read This If You Want To Be Great At Painting, and finally, How to Draw Anything. The trouble is I have no discipline and I’m, and have always been, a lousy learner. I’m not sure what the answer is….
You can see my artistic development / non-development at https://thingschange.blog/not-an-artist/
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We all drew a dolphin
We followed a twenty minute video on YouTube, Draw With Rob. Here are the efforts of the very young and the very old.
Iris (5 years)
Chloe (7 years)
Granny
Grandad
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My new laptop keyboard is horrid
So what don’t I like about my new laptop keyboard? It’s got a numeric keypad, that’s what. The Delete, Backspace and Enter keys should be on the extreme right of the keyboard not stuck in the middle. Unless you’re entering a lot of numeric data there’s no point in having the number keys on the right. I won’t make the same mistake with my next laptop! It doesn’t help that I’m still using the old laptop as well as the new one, so switching between the two leads to a lot of keystroke errors on the new laptop.
Grrrr….
NEW laptop
OLD laptop
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From the remainder section at Waterstones
All for a tenner!
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River Wey Navigation (14 miles!)
What a day! A rush to get the first train followed by getting on the wrong second train and having to catch a third train back two stations and finally having to wait for a fourth train to the starting point of my river walk at New Haw. As usual I was pretty unprepared for a long walk, with just a banana and a crunch bar to last what turned out to be a nearly 5 hour, 14 mile walk along the River Wey Navigation to Guildford. It was so hot when there wasn’t shelter from the mid-day sun. Exhausted after walking non-stop for 5 hours (I rarely stop for rests, particularly when I don’t have food), I arrived at Guildford station to find there’s a signal failure on my line to home, so I improvised a return route via Woking and Clapham Junction. What a day!
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Technically, I suppose it was theft
Today, a walk to assuage my guilt! Last week I found 3 books in the National Trust’s second-hand bookshop at Polesden Lacey and didn’t pay for them. The card reader wasn’t working and they had no cash to give change. I was told I could pay for them if I exited the grounds and paid at the gift shop. But I wasn’t intending to exit the grounds at the gift shop, so I put the books in my rucksack and continued my walk before finally leaving. My intention was either to make an online donation or to pay on my next visit. Hence today’s walk to the same bookshop, in order to pay my dues. I explained to the volunteer running the shop why I had come, although I put a gloss on it saying that I had forgotten to pay!
It was a grey day for a walk and all the pictures came out drab, even with the help of Photoshop. So just one image, a black & white rendition taken at the edge of some dark woods.
In addition to paying my dues at the bookshop I also found a couple of thin novels. Don’t they have great covers!
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Dapdune Wharf
A train to Guildford and a 15 minute walk took me to Dapdune Wharf, a modest National Trust site on the River Wey. My purpose was to investigate the second-hand bookshop, which I can now recommend and which proved successful. I went inside the large barge wearing one of the hard-hats provided – absolutely essential for all six-footers! There’s also a very decent cafe. It was a lovely few hours spent in the bookshop, pottering around and having a cafe sandwich lunch. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/river-wey-and-godalming-navigations-and-dapdune-wharf
The first two images were taken on the walk from the station to the Wharf and show the River Wey as it passes through the centre of Guildford.
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