HRH Queen Bess

Pray silence for Her Royal Highness

"I is hoping I am going to be painted by Kitty and put on a pot, this is my I is not Amuzzed pose. Well I is the Queen of the cats you know” QB rules! "

Pots of the Day

The flowerpot stunt - I always was the dangerous type. I am scanning the entire family photograph albums and I am somewhere in 1966 here I think. I have done about 200 and I have only covered twenty years; the early ones of my Mother have been wonderful. Cropping them on the computer has been like seeing them for the first time as they come up so huge on my monitor the details have been marvelous. This is one of her feeding her sister strawberries; it must date from the very early 1950’s.

My Grandfather was a very keen photographer he developed and printed all his own pictures. I am really appreciating his snipping now as the photographic papers are not very square. The albums are huge and heavy, the pictures are all copydexed into old Christmas card albums. My flat bed scanner with detachable cover is really coming into its own now, I can tell you.

Decorating, how difficult can that be?

Two rungs don't make a right.

Alan and I are getting ready for the Joze Show. This is the end wall in the studio and valuable hanging space so we are painting it white, although this may not be the final colour. After much debate we settled on the mist and paint application method. This involves spraying water in a fine mist onto the super absorbent bricks, add 1 drop of Fairy Liquid to the reservoir (no more or you get bubbly bristles). Then you slap on the paint.
If a job is worth doing then its worth getting the right outfit. Alan is modeling the painter and decorator’s classic bib and brace overall with adjustable reinforced straps, and extra large pouch pocket. I am wearing the versatile apprentice white coat with just two pockets, easy strip popper fastenings and jaunty collar (please note my designer scarf accessory).

And one of Alan with Bill the cat. Lovely Bill.