Happy New Year.

Greetings fellow travellers. What a glorious frosty day ! 
Just coming out the other end of a nasty bug that almost everyone I know has had an encounter with.
 And pretty fed up with spending most of my time lounging around either in bed or sofa, but lacking the energy to do more. I gave into it. How long can it last ? I asked myself, couple of days in bed and it will be gone...... hmmmm see me almost 3 weeks in, aching to begin my new regime ( health) ;) similar with new ideas for art pieces. But no, the old bod' has other ideas, keeping me confined to quarters all over the festive period, as concern for friend's elderly relatives was too much to contemplate.
So many of my close friends have lost family members in 2016, I don't wish to be the cause of a flurry more. 

Those of you dear friends who follow this blog for news of classes? I'm confident that we will resume by the 2nd week in Jan. Anyone interested in a Head/ Torso modelling group please contact me and we can arrange a day or evening to begin. 

Where's Mikey? oh here he is...on my bed as usual. A prodigious hunter, left me a dead rat at the end of my bed the other day. Well proud of himself too !
I'm not grossed out these days, just thankful that he doesn't have an appetite for this type of rodent and that they are DOA !!! We have had many a fun time chasing live mice around the house when he has lost his grip. One managed to survive a whole week after finding lodgings in one of the drawers where I 'kept' my sketch pads. Having made himself a cosy bed from the latter, he then found a corridor to the bird food on the landing and lived like a king ! Well its good those were the best days of his little life. Once discovered, it was a joint effort between me and Mikey to round him up and end his privilege. Sounds heartless, but I leave them alone outside, once in my territory, they are fair game. I send them back to source where they can decide whether or no to return, and as what.
Look at him, field vole wouldn't melt in his mouth !

looking really cute post belly rub. lols