It is Friday

An exciting day and a great joy to meet Tinkerbelle who is sketching in the Lake District with friends.

And of course, jazz at Burgundy's with the awesome Harold Salisbury Quartet. I greatly enjoyed sketching Norman. the bass player, as his face has so much character and emotion and I think is in the middle ground between joy and pain but in reality is probably concentration. In this video you can see this and it's the contrasting expressions between him and Harold that is striking. Harold is over 80 and his highlight was playing the soprano and alto sax.......together!!!. The other two members of the quartet were Tom Vernon on guitar and Jonathan Hartley on drums.

Between meeting Tinkerbelle and the jazz, I met up with Dr Andy Clements, Director of the British Trust for Ornithology and his lecture on the work of that Trust on understanding changes in bird populations and their causes.

Yesterday was quite an eclectic day and today I wake up to see the olive green masonry paint that I put on the house window sills yesterday morning ..... now washed off by yesterday's rain!