#89.20 - Another day

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Snow Bunting
It has been a wonderful two weeks. Being at home, doing work, painting, running, gardening... cooking, being with the boys and the cat. It has been really special.

I have done seven bird paintings, that'e one painting a day. It began with the tern, then the swan, the choughs, puffins, goldfinch and THEN I got the hang of it and did the House Sparrow and the Snow Bunting. With each painting I understood more and more.

I loved the rusty gate and the house sparrow and for the snow bunting I finally understood how to do detailed plummage. Everything is always a work in progress.

I am now cooking for Oisin.

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It is now almost 3 pm. The day passes very quickly.

We are now just waiting for the tide to recede and see what's left after this tsunami. Everyone has gone bananas - more or less. Well, not everyone, just most people. I am not afraid, but I also do think that people need to stop being afraid and waiting it out. It is possible to not be afraid and just face this with calm.

Everything has stopped apart from shops selling alcohol and supermarkets. I have now done enough of a shop to last for a week. The next time I go out it will be Thursday for buying stuff. Although there is the usual Good Friday - Easter Monday shut down - so I SHOULD go out on Thursday.

Many people are getting home deliveries. I don't understand why they are doing this. Are they unable to go out? Or are they just doing it cos it is easier? They are afraid of going out? 

Meanwhile Christ Hedges and Noam Chomsky have just looked past Covid and are far more worried about what will be left after, especially with the weakened state of the world economy which was running on fumes to begin with and then the fascism which has been installed. That is really worrying. To me those two things are the most worrying. 

We are all gonna be a lot thinner when we emerge.

Essentially there has been no generation untouched by tragedy and disaster. For a long time we thought the baby boomers would have escaped it as life became more and more luxurious and complicated, but it looks like chaos will now reign... well I of all people should not be surprised.

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So... I blued my hair up after weeks of planning to do it and just putting it off. 

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