It’s been a bit of a bizarre few days. My new car arrived and I have spent quite bait of time driving around in it. Yesterday, for the first time in my motoring career the windscreen was cracked by a flying object on the motorway – this is real frustrating but it is part of life’s rich tapestry well at least that is what I keep telling myself.

On top of this I have started to prepare the presentation I am going make on Sunday about my recent photographic practice – in short iphoneography – I want to get it finished by tomorrow and I have a few ideas which I will firm up and hopefully make into some coherent presentation for Sunday.

The final thing that is floating through my mind is my historical research project. This year I am concentrating on the iron age and how this fits into the project as a whole. There are so many things I could pursue but I have decided to take a little slower this year – after all I am doing this for my own satisfaction and so it doesn’t have deadline. Currently I am reading ‘The Prehistory of the East Midlands Claylands’ – a real page turner ! Actually I is very interesting if a little dry.

On top of this I am making simple sketches such as this of Jim Broadbent. I made a similar sketch a few months ago and the difference is striking. The previous sketch was a good likeness but didn’t have the confidence of technique that one has. This one is looser and I think much more interesting for that. I have not striven for an exact likeness but just tried to enjoyed producing the drawing. I think it works.

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