My Allotment Writing Shed

With my thoughts finally turning to the writing of my 10th novel, it is good to see my allotment writing shed slowly taking shape. We have a cooker and a kettle working in there already, and a comfy fold-up chair. Just need to take down my fold up lap table and I will have no excuse not to crack on with the project. I will share a pic of the amazing view from the window next time I am down there. It really is so peaceful on the allotment - an oasis of calm in a very troubled world.

Down the Plot

Spent the day down the allotment, helping sort out the plot, catching up on some reading and working on See Gower.

Blue is the Colour

Stell made the most of the sunshine today, by painting and sorting out my new writing shed / her gardening shed lol:

 

Good Things Come to Those who Wait

After 3.5 years on the waiting list, we finally got keys to an allotment, and its just down the road for us.

And here's our plot:

Power to the People

After finishing reading the novelisation of the 1970's TV comedy series, Man about the House, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I thought I would continue the light-hearted nostalgia theme with another 70's comedy series novelisation.

Cat Bites

Spotted the neighbour's cat jump in this box this morning, where he immediately began nibbling at cardboard, biting out a semi circle with the ease of a leaf-cutter 🐝 When I went outside that afternoon, I was shocked to see just how much progress he had made. I hope this isn't a sign of stress in the beautiful pwscat:

A Dreamy Kind of Day

Sunday Sunshine

The summer heatwave, still in full sway over sunny Swansea, let me into the garden for the day:

Slowly, but surely, this regular garden visitor is realising I'm a nice guy to hang out with. He used to be so timid when I came out into the garden, and now look at the furry fellow:

Man about the House

Living Stones

Finally potted up some Lithops "Living Stones" succulents with the kind of stone it mimics in the deserts of Africa to avoid being eaten. In the background, are Venus Fly Traps (red dragon & zipper strains) a red Crassula O. and, right at the back, Fenestaria (baby toes).

Escaping

Sat out in the back garden last night with the love of my life, trying to forget the rough edges of the world beyond...

Home Again

Home again. Jiggety jig.

And aren't these poppies in our front garden a sight for sore eyes!

Norwich Shopping

There was a Norwich tourist graphic art picture in our weekend Airbnb, and I decided to take a few photos I could generate my own art print from. To be honest, I am pretty pleased with the result:

My photo:

My generated Art pic:

A fito-portrait of the seagull in the above 2 images. I snapped him just as he left the lamptop and took to the skies:

This is a really old street, quaint enough to be used in the Hari Pot-head movies:

My firstborn with Mrs P.L.

Another scene I photographed to generate an art print version. Haven't done it yet, but I will:

Some of our purchases:

Went to the Norwich Imax in the evening to watch Disclosure.