Brighter Days

Hi everyone, we have been out for the past two days. 

We went to RHS Bridgewater on Thursday - making plans for taking a friend a little later this Spring. We were checking on wheelchair access and pleasantly surprised to find that we can even get through the Chinese gardens easily.

We also had a few other things to deal with, some of which are still outstanding.

Yesterday our car went in for a service and it's MOT(passed fortunately). We were told it would be ready by 5 o'clock so we set off on a 50 minute walk into Manchester City centre.

We treated ourselves to a coffee and toasted teacake then went to see 'The Duke' at the cinema. A very funny film starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, about the theft of the Goya painting of the the Duke of Wellington in 1961. It was a story that I remember from my teens - the newspapers of the time were full of it!

Today, with the sun shining, I finished off a journal page for Valerie's 'Spring' theme at Art Journal Journey.

I had covered the page with deep pink and yellow paint and added some paint lifted from my plastic lid palettes with sellotape swell as some that peeled off in larger pieces. I also added some stencilling to use up some green paint. The tulip is fussy cut from some Stamperia paper and the sun is one of my favourites so I always have a few ready to use. I found the stickers among some things I was sorting through so added some tulips and ladybirds.(At the moment we have ladybirds on our balcony - not as many as we have had in other years but we have been able to open the windows today and let them free!)

The quote is something I am trying to do, but I do worry that I'm not getting much visiting and commenting done lately! I will be trying to catch up soon!

Thanks for looking, Chris