21 08 2025

 In the event found several typos but couldn't find out how to change them -! So off it goes, for pedants to enjoy.

Discovered that my WikiP page has disappeared. I'm un-personed, cant find out why or how to restore it. Does it matter? I hadn't seen it for years... it might have been missing for a decade hahaha BUT did find other sites referring to it and also sundry sites that are long dead, including the reproof of the soul which I used to like, and the dressing table site. If I can find them again, can I copy them? If I can copy them, where do I put them? Oh la, this is not my decade.

Discovered also that my robovac is so old you cant get parts for it. It has outlived its time. Sigh.

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Woah, here's the hermes trig stuff, until l can open my site and put it there. Or I might just go for a walk.

Vanilla Beer - HERMES TRISMEGISTOS

20 08 2025

 Going to put out Death: A Work in Progress as a kindle book and the creators of these things are insisting that I check it for errors. So that's today done for, sigh.

It's fresh and wet here, makes many things possible. Sitting in front of a computer not the favourite choice, though I have all the worlds' known music to play the while, thanks to youtube.   

18 08 2025

 Cool enough for a long morning walk. Found I was spotting places I want to paint - watercolour some landscapes. Achievable, if the weather stays agreeable.

Off for exercise tests at Carcassonne hospital to determine what's up with my mechanism. Not looking forward to it.

11 o8 2025

 I had a dream :)

I woke and needed to get something from the bedside table, but the light wouldn't work. Bulb gone. Odd. So I found the switch for the room light and that didn't work either. A power cut: no doubt the heat.

The noise that woke me was continuing so I walked to the window in the dark and found a different landscape from my impasse. There was a large garden and a road curving round it at the bottom, the mountains in the distance. It was lit by a huge dinosaur, as I thought, or truncated enormous ant-eater: Luminous white hair covered it, matted and spikey and stiff looking. Further up the back of the monster it seemed softer and on the back was a small child, riding the creature. It was held on by a harness and controlling the critter lightly with leads. 

It moved down the road taking the light with it.

The sun rose slowly. The garden was big. I went to friends nearby and asked if they'd seen anything.

And I woke.

Oh well, just nice to be dreaming again!!

09 08 2025

 I sleep a great deal, probably 12 hrs in total per 24 - so half my time is asleep. 

Noticed yesterday that I no longer dream. Dreams have been an essential part of my work practice all my life and they've stopped. 

Which came first? No dreams, no work or is it that no work means no dreams?

03 08 2025

 Yo, I'm back...saw many friends and most of my family. ONE exhibition! That was all - Ithell Colquhoun who it seems had finally been acknowledged by the art world or what's left of it. Saw a couple of mates who had galleries in the day and to an extent still have; they are bewailing a lot.

I did it though! Could walk and function, not at speed or with force but happy to note that life isn't finished yet. 

We have guests for the next couple of weeks but plan to start painting again afterwards. Wordy stuff less attractive.