2021 – Curious-Authentic Ink

And, Away!

Post author:Eryl
Post published:26/12/2021
Post category:Travel
Post comments:6 Comments

It's six-o-two on Christmas morning. We are in a distillery cottage on Islay, Dave is sleeping, the wind is roaring round us like a fury, causing the wood in the…

Artist Overboard

Post author:Eryl
Post published:03/12/2021
Post category:Process
Post comments:4 Comments

The CommissionI was asked to create an artefact that spoke to the idea of a two year old girl's first words being a premonition about meeting her future husband. The…

Artist Date 2: A Commission

Post author:Eryl
Post published:26/10/2021
Post category:Travel Writer's Life
Post comments:7 Comments

I tend to think I'm rubbish at working to someone else's specifications. That commissions stifle my imagination. But, the only projects I've managed to complete, successfully, in the last year…

An Artist and her Bus Pass

Post author:Eryl
Post published:02/10/2021
Post category:Ageing Exploring Writer's Life
Post comments:9 Comments

I am on a lonely road and I am travelling, sang Joni Mitchell in a song I like very much. But her problem could be considered quite the opposite of…

The Artist’s Date

Post author:Eryl
Post published:14/09/2021
Post category:Writer's Life Writing
Post comments:6 Comments

Like everyone, Covid has affected my life in a zillion random ways. While I've had the very good fortune not to get sick, I'm somewhat weighted by certain repercussions. No…

The Hawks Nib

It’s a Butey!

Post author:Eryl
Post published:21/07/2021
Post category:Exploring Travel Writer's Life
Post comments:10 Comments

Tuesday 20 JulyI sit at the window of a kitchen that is mine for the week, like a cat safe in the knowledge its curiosity won't kill it here. On…

A Quickie

Post author:Eryl
Post published:07/06/2021
Post category:Ageing Exploring Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

Where has the time since my last post gone? I wonder if now I'm that old time moves in odd ways; or, rather, the way I experience time has changed?…

Stinging Sixties

Post author:Eryl
Post published:15/04/2021
Post category:Ageing Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

Thanks to my parents not being able to keep their hands off each other for, preferably, another twenty years, a week ago I became sixty. I've known it was going…

Early Spring Walk

Lockdown, One Year On.

Post author:Eryl
Post published:26/03/2021
Post category:Lockdown Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

Tuesday was the anniversary of lockdown, here, and I meant to write this post then. But I had my first jag on Monday and looking at the computer screen gave…

Bloody Marvellous!

Post author:Eryl
Post published:07/03/2021
Post category:Lockdown
Post comments:1 Comment

https://youtu.be/sJmc78h3EFsSunday Music* I've been a fan of Erik Satie ever since I read that he always wore one of (I think it was) fourteen (but feel free to put me…