Author Archives: Guthlac

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About Guthlac

An artist, historian and middle aged man who'se aim in life is to try and enjoy as much of it as he can

Project LV One – Day 255 – Wot no Abba?

As I sit down to write this Allegri’s Miserere Mei, Deus is playing in the background. (This plays havoc with the autocorrect/spell check which is not a bad thing as God should have mercy on them.)  The only reason why I … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 254 – Profit and Lost

Some days I feel like Carl from Up, guess it might be the never ending march of time, but other days I feel like some spring chick who has boundless energy.  Today on this spectrum I am well towards Carl! … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 253 – ‘…Oh the pain, the pain…’

Man flu is a curse of the man of leisure and at the moment I am cursed.  yesterday was a bit of a false dawn as today I feel worse.   Much as I feel a bit shit at the moment … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 252 – The Winner Takes it All

Abba are one of those bands that seem to divide opinion.  Back in the 1970’s I thought they were a great pop band and I still do.  The closest I ever got to the band was that I was almost … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 251 – Dance Away the Memories

Fallen Woman Good start to the New Year – a head cold and dickie hip.  Still could be worse – much much worse.  So have I any New Year’s resolutions?  No not really as over the years I have come … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 250 – And it’s a hard rain a goin’ to fall

Well it looks like we’ve managed not to blow the world up for another year which in itself is a real achievement.   However, we do seem set on buggering up the climate so perhaps things are not so rosy. … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 249 – Dystopia

  ….an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one…. Need I say anymore?

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Project LV One – Day 248 – Printing Squares

Tis the season for coming down with ailments…as the song may have gone.  All around me my friends have got a variation of the lurgy  and I appear to have pulled a muscle in my leg.  Anyway this didn’t stop … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 247 – Lightroom Mobile

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Oh this brings back memories, plotting out workflow models and then using them to optimise the process.  Hours and hours of … Continue reading

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Project LV One – Day 246 – Disco

This is a digital portrait I am working on at the moment – in real world terms this is an oil sketch – not sure whether this is a creative col de sac – time will tell.  

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