Still flooding

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Guthlac
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The flood waters are going down

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Guthlac
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Whilst other parts of the country are still suffering from flooding at least around here the water is going down.  This photo was captured on Saturday and both rivers are at least 2 metres above their normal level.

Simon Marchini 

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A bit black dog – Pope Innocent the Fry

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Guthlac

One of those days today – nothing for it but sit back and just relax. What better way than to make a drawing from something off the tele – in this case Stephen Fry posing as pope Innocent the third. I used pens for this so there was no real opportunity to correct anything. This makes you think about every mark you make.

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A well known musician

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Guthlac
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Hare Doodle

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Guthlac
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I don’t what it is about hares but I find them fascinating – perhaps it has something to do with my interest in pre historic british culture.  Anyway, I knocked this little doodle up this morning just for the heck of it. 

Simon Marchini 

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The Night Shift

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Guthlac
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One last photo before bed…it has been an exhausting day.

Simon Marchini 

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Cold Feet

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Guthlac
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There reaches a point in one’s life when you realise that you are, perhaps, not quite as young as you once thought.  Well I might just have reached on of these points this morning.  Let me set the scene.  I live above the main flood plain for Leicester which floods from time to time.  So as I’m on a bit of a photo bender at the moment I thought wouldn’t it be a great idea to record the flooding.

So far so good.   However, as I was wading through the cold water I suddenly realised that one of my socks in my wellies had come off and I was in fact walking through the water in a bare foot as wellies have virtually no insulating properties.  Now in the past I would have shrugged this off but today I suddenly felt a cold shudder running through my body.  For the first time I thought to myself… “..why the hell am I doing this?…”   In the past I have happily stood at the bottom of a dock slowly sinking into the mud to take photos of eider duck in the middle of one of the coldest January’s in recent history and I didn’t feel the cold.  Today I did.  I didn’t stop but after this every step made me feel colder and colder.   Oh the joys of getting old!

Simon Marchini 

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Who are you?

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Guthlac

Well I have been doing battle with this face for around a week and I have yet to produce anything that is a good likeness. I suppose this is the closest yet but still it is not right. I have been working on this drawing, on and off, for the best part of four hours and still I can’t get it right. I think I’ll have to sleep on it, figuratively not actually, and see where I go from in the morning.

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Battling with the technology

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Guthlac
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Inspired by the tele

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Guthlac
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