Wednesday's painting...

... A long day...


My digital painting for today using SketchClubApp, and a silhouette app for the trees and birds.



Then I found my doorbell does not work. Of all times to pack in.

Changed both lots of batteries, cleaned terminals. Still dead as a dodo. It is 20 years old..

Last year I was looking for doorbells. To replace this one at some point. But nothing flashed the way I needed it to, and I wasn't paying for specialist stuff ( I couldn't afford it anyway). Then I saw something on Amazon that was too cheap to be true.


This was last summer. Customer's photos and video showed the way this doorbell flashed through a rainbow of lights when it rang. It was 2 for £9.99. Too cheap to be true...yeah? When I tried it out I loved the rainbow colours that flashed. But when I put the push bit outside, I realised it would let in water. And I realised the bell push was really for an indoor apartment complex. But I kept it with a view to covering the bell push with something. 

I am so glad I did, because I doubt I would have been able to buy a doorbell now. I covered the bell push with clear plastic. It was easy enough to do. 

A friend is sending me some parcels which is why I needed a working bell!

What is it that people don't understand about this lockdown? Children were playing in a group in this cul de sac, they don't even live here, they came in from the next road. Then the neighbour (and his wife) next door, who is the not very nice neighbour, had his daughter there today and his two grandchildren. Then over the road there is a woman and her grown up son, but more of the extended family live in the next road, so children were wandering between the houses, and adults too. And more. You wouldn't know there was a lockdown in place. These people are going to ruin it, the bit of freedom we have to shop, for the rest of us who are abiding by the rules. I am waiting for the body bags, or the army, it's a toss up which arrives first.

Then I went on Amazon to order some things, but I found that many deliveries from Amazon are not going to arrive until mid May. I wanted some seeds, tomato, nasturtiums, kale etc. They were in my save for later. Well they are either sold out now, or because they are not termed as essential food, are not going to be delivered until mid May. Useless. It is food I wanted to grow. So that has knocked that idea in the head.

I wanted a bit more dried food, veg and fruits and seeds and dried full cream milk. They were in my save for later. But n the minute it took me to to bring them up to pay for them, then suddenly one was sold out, By the the time I realised what was happening, something else had vanished, sold out.

It took me an hour, and holding my breath most of that time, to try and find something similar. And prices had gone up £2.50 more here, and a fiver there. Absolutely not, I will do without first...

Finally I got there. So some chia seeds, almond flour, freeze dried blueberries, dried eggs, and long life almond milk, and a couple more bits will be coming in the next few days.