Dreaded Lurgy

We have been visited by a nasty virus this week; Ellen has been off school and has been feeling very unwell.  Just today she no longer feels in pain but has no energy.

After being stuck at home all week we have done what old folk do and gone for a drive.  Bratton Hill Fort or Westbury White Horse is a good place to go as it has a view over 4 counties.  As we rounded the hill to the while horse carved into the hill side we listened to Ben Howard's 'Diamonds'.  He is singing about white horses as breakers on the sea but it was strangely fitting.  My family used to take many walks up here so I have fond memories as a child scrambling with my brother up the mounds which used to make the fort and walking across the MOD property (Public footpath) which is this end of Salisbury Plain.

I last posted about a hare picture I have been painting.  I am not going to pretend I am brushing away at it from dawn until dusk, but it is taking an age.  Still not finished I have the work in progress below.

 

Can you see the dandelions grow as I go?

I need to add more grass on top and take out the blades under the hare's ears - they just weren't working.

I have been sketching a few other things in between, and walking in the woods.

Tilly is always up for a run through the woods.

I am off to a meeting in the Chapel Gallery tomorrow afternoon.  It will be interesting to know how it went and what the foot-fall was.

In the meantime...

Back to Hare Hill!

I hope you all have a good weekend out the in blog -land and keep free of the dreaded lurgy.