An icy afternoon in Sydenham Hill Woods, page 11

Gardener's hut Soho Square, Graphic novel pages 9 & 10

The gardener's hut in Soho Square today, it was a beautiful day with no clouds at all but very cold and oppressively crowded everywhere. In an episode of the excellently hilarious Toast of London, Toast is summoned to a fencing match inside the hut, when he is inside the hut it's implausibly huge! I discovered that in the mid eighteenth century a very famous fencing master, Domenico Angelo, really did live in a house in Soho Square, so there is some satisfying logic to the association....

Graphic novel project, pages 9 & 10...

New Tate Modern extension + page 8

I went to the Tate Modern today to see the Sigmar Polke and the aftermath of war exhibition, "Conflict, Tme, Photography" lots of interesting questions about memory and time in both, though Polke seemed to have a more Significant response to the question of propaganda, I also really liked his trippy agaric pictures, mixing sci fi with Alice in Wonderland and more Burroughesque themes...the extension is coming along, it at least has a more interesting shape then some of the rushed towers going up in the area. 

New graphic novel pages 5, 6 & 7

 

These are pages 5, 6 and 7.at the moment

Little Owl part 4, more Croydon Alps

At 16:16 the reliable Little Owl flew from the usual copse onto the open ground then up to a high plain tree as I have seen him do four times now, this time I also heard him make a striking "put, put , put" call, quite aggressive sounding , Peter also heard this and we wondered if it was a contact call, and if, therefore, there are two owls! It was very cold and not hard to imagine some snow coming into Streatham soon, I hope the Little Owl is hardy. I read they can use the same spot for upto 25 years.

Below, the ancient woods at the top of the common tonight, not where I've seen owls, but others have heard tawnys there over the years.

Below, page 4

The view over Covington Way towards Croydon, improved by an imaginary mountain range, subject of my recurring dreams.

Binary-coded sexagesimal wristwatch

Thank you Dave for my beautiful binary-coded sexagesimal wristwatch, I love it!

Its sexagesimal, (base 60),  "a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, it was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and it is still used — in a modified form — for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates". Officially a nerd now!

Below, beginning of the Croydon Alps, rendered in Terragen 3D.

Graphic Novel project

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to complete a graphic novel, I've written the story but need to get my act together with the images etc. 

Pages 1, 2 & 3