Seagulls

The seagulls are all flying out to sea fifty or sixty of them, do they sleep on the sea? Saw the heron today it was just taking off, they are beautiful elegant birds.

Thoughts

I have just started reading a new book 'My Garden, the City and Me by Helen Babbs. In the preface she describes herself as being 'a sometime melancholic and an over-thinker.' What a wonderful description and describes me to a detail. I love the word melancholic its so descriptive and little used these days. It describes my down days so much better than feeling low or depressed, which I'm not. And an over-thinker, I wish my brain would shut down sometimes, I went to bed really early last night as I was so tired but could I sleep, no way, my head was full of my visit to Taunton and ideas for future pieces of work and all the usual rubbish that my head is full of. So now I am really tired.

Mapping the Future

Yesterday we went to The Brewhouse, Taunton where I have my Mapping the Future piece in an exhibition. The exhibition is fascinating and thought provoking and includes loads of fantastic work. Unfortunately I forgot my camera but you can see some of the work on the blog mappingthefuturewhereareyou.wordpress.com
My favourite piece was called The Souvenir Shop by Helen Price which I could have looked at all day. It consists of a cabinet with loads of random stuff in it, including little nesting type baskets with lichens, rusty stuff, driftwood all sorts really. All my favourite things which I randomly collect and don't do anything with, which of course is why I was so drawn to it.
Gave me lots of ideas.

Ok I take that back, somebody was thinking of me as I typed and all the blogs I was following have just turned up again. Thank you.

I find reading other peoples blogs fascinating, enjoyable and a totally time wasting occupation. But there is so much good stuff out there. I love stitchers work but hate the fact they seem to be able to do a whole piece in the time it takes me to do about two inches. Tapestry weaving is so slow.
I do mixed media work occasionally maybe I ought to do more. Anyway my blog site seems to have decided I don't want to follow any more blogs and has deleted the whole list that I have carefully set up. How annoying is that now I'm going to have to start over.

Catkins, roots and birch trees

 Catkins on my twisted hazel, I love this tree, it also has female flowers so I guess this one doesn't need help from another tree to produce nuts.

A small tapestry I've been weaving in front of the telly. I'm pleased with it very simple with roots of marran grass sewn into it.

I have been weaving as well as wandering round the garden, progress has been achieved. Two of the trees are nearly finished but I am having trouble with the branches, they are only attached to the main warp where they come off the trunk and at the moment look very flat. Thats why I'm not letting anybody see them at the moment, not until I've solved the problem.

Daffodils

Miniature daffodils in the  garden.

Still beautiful weather, who would believe its the beginning of March.