21 03 2026

Another in the Hommage a Kitaj series, charting the decline and fall... back to the hospital on Weds., not looking forward to it. But I'm assured by well-meaning friends that the acute burning wont be so intense since the abscess on the sinus has gone.

 

Finished the Irene singing a Healing Song to a Flamingo so if I survive there's only the Ascent of the Blessed to come back too. Got another months' extension on the maths book!! Which l really must get on with ASAP -

Curious that the hands in both pictures are in the same position, nearly

16 03 2026

 Still lingering. Did the hospital - working on a pic of that - mouth/tooth infection so they couldn't fit the stents. Battered and bruised. Not happy in general. But today managed to waylay my dentist and get an appointment for Thursday so maybe this can get sorted. 

Matts gone and I'm bereft. 

Should start on book, deadline looming, but want to finish a couple of pix and focusing is hard, I'm tiered. One artery has 50%effacity, another has lost 75%. That explains the constant knackerness then.

Off for a kip...

05 03 2026

 Trolling on... its not being ill - though it is- or having interventions that takes time, its the farfallue around it. Spend a deal of yesterday trying and failing to get my bon pour transport paperwork so I can be taken to the hospital on Wednesday and no doubt will loose a deal of time over the same issue today. 

And the rest.  My dossier is vast, in French and needs all sorts of responses. And shaving, for gods sake. Will have to sit and draft a timetable today.

Bob off to the UK on Tuesday where he's seeing many of his specialists and we discover our future. Neither of us wants to return to the UK but its not impossible that he'll have to.

On the plus side, my lovely brother Matt is arriving on Monday to look after me!!!

The deadline for the math book drawings is three weeks away so hoping all this will go easily. It will, of course... and maybe I can sneak in a few hours and finish Irene Singing.

28 02 2026

 Carrying on carrying on though this'll have to have some serious attention soon.

Been knocked rather more than slightly by the surprising news that I need stents around my heart. The silence of the surgeon I had misinterpreted - but clearly there's no urgency since the issues were photographed in December. Awaiting dates now.

It's all very normal, it seems. Seems deeply unnormal to me, but hey -

26 02 2026

 

Quite like the direction that Irene and Flamingo is going though the Ascension is still a mess... in the meantime the maths book has been addressed by co-authors and I must find my original drawings (?Where did I store them) and adapt where necessary. Will leave till the beginning of March. We're overnighting in Collioure for 2/3rd and the plan is to come back knowing what I'm doing, hahahha

22 02 2026

 Despite lack of documentation, pressing happily on.... ascent of the blessed, Irene singing healing song to a flamingo, a small lamb. Liking painting.

Also finished little book, 50 sayings and sources from Stafford. 

Energy seems rather good despite a. hip b. shoulder c. ankles. 

10 02 2026

nearly done - got most of today clear so baring more surprises* should be done. Want to move on. 

* Bob ill, Zoe turned up -