It really is a strange thing to do – combing a heavy American academic work on Stalin and the audio book of Stephen Fry’s latest autobiographical tome.  I find myself reading the Stalin book with Stephen Fry’s voice with strangely disturbing results.  I really hadn’t realised how much of my energy had gone into the previous fortnight’s work and so I was totally drained.  This sounds like some effete nonsense but I comfort myself in the knowledge that I have done a real man’s job for over 30 years and see it as a reward for all the black days I suffered.

But for all this languishing on a chaise lounge  waving scented handkerchiefs in a perfumed boudoir , this is how I imagine a true effete to spend his or her day, I have this project to work to.  One piece of creative outpouring a day for a whole year.  So this morning I created these drawings and combined them into a little image for your examination. Enjoy.

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