Keep bum on seat

Finally finally getting to the end of the massive publicity shove Laura and I have been doing (mostly Laura) newsletter, press releases and the website all to be launched at the same time. Takes a lot of prep. No way I could have done this without her, no way at all.  It (the baby has its own identity now, called ‘It’) will need constant attention but the worst must be over.

So, yesterday sat down to do some drawing after, I am ashamed to say, months. I must put the WWF collection together for Top Drawer, and then to give to them to show at the Olympia show, details to follow. Self imposed deadline but real enough. 

Need to make drawings of all the animals and to understand them before I work on the actual piece in gold. I started with the panda.

First day, had a terrible time with ADHD…. Anything will do to interrupt me and heaven knows there are enough things going on in this house.

2^nd day was tigers. They are murder, with all those stripes that are not stripes at all, but ‘random’ marks, for camouflage of course.

Half an hour into it and the phone rings. The police. Father was knocked over, nearby, on his way to getting the bus to swimming. He crosses the busy main road when the traffic stops for the lights, always at the same place. The crossing is further down and phased so it takes ages.

But he couldn’t see the bike, of course, and it knocked him over. Ambulance, the lot. It took 4 hours till I was sitting down at the desk again.

Today, looking forward to doing the blog and pressing on with the drawings. But dad’s leg wont work. Cant put any pressure on it….so: call doc to please come. She says we need an x-ray.  Fairly urgent as hip is damaged. Thing is, as soon as he is in bed, mother is helpless. So both need feeding, etc.  Oh joy.

Waiting for ambulance as I write.

But this is what I did get done and I will continue, if it kills me.