30/10/08 and 31/10/08

30/10/09

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31/10/09

Nothing much to say about today. Halloween. My daughters stood guard at the front door to repel unwanted guests, no one unpleasant showed up. Younger daughter shows drawing ability copying Disney characters. Her art teacher at school appears to be oblivious of her talent. I don't understand this. Creative art seems to have disappeared from the school timetable, apart from a nod to art history. Potted biographies of famous artists. The Disney pictures will be posted in tomorrow's blog, along with more new forest pictures.
Spent the day producing drawings for a futile planning application. I went to the town hall to see a planner that i have known for years, but he pretended that we'd never met and was very unhelpful.

29/10/08

Said daughter and myself finally bought a camera, after half and hour of haggling,comparing specifications,arguing about the price, driving the sales assistant to distraction- but the right choice was made because daughter is happy and would have resented my cheapskate choice.
More Brand-Ross madness. It takes a tabloid editor to point out the obvious. Namely that Jonathan Ross is a clown. Certainly not worth £6million of the taxpayers money per year. Apparently Ross is the BBC's top star.
Pictures shows daughter's view in the forest of the lake at Epping Forest, which I am recasting as a painting. Tomorrow we are going back there to take some more pictures, courtesy of the aforesaid. Will post paintings and new photographs as they are produced. Daughter wants a vintage Polaroid land camera from the 1960s or thereabouts. Does anyone know where to get one, other than Ebay, for a reasonable price?

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