Wow - Live Life : A badminton friend has asked us if we could do about forty small line drawings for her new book on play therapy. This is quite a challenge. We both draw and paint, but line drawings have to be carefully done - no impressionism here.
I've just done two and they've turned out really well.... a nice chubby girl happily playing with playdough, and another child cooking. My husband has spent a while drawing a challenging scene with two adults giving a child a swing in a blanket.... not easy.
Yesterday, a mini adventure.... Walking round our Marie Celeste type village, we came across a lost elderly lady, clutching scrawled directions. Having found out she needed to go at least two miles, we offered to give her a lift. On the way home, she said that 62 years ago, she came to England from St.Helena. Into my head came Napoleon... Yes, he was exiled there.... It's a tiny British colony in the South Atlantic, halfway between Africa and S.America, so they speak English. Beatty came to Coventry with a group of other young women, to do domestic work, living in..... Oh, what a story...
Even in our super quiet village, it's gratifying how things suddenly happen, as above....... thank heavens.
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