• I’m off to visit the Sir James Henderson School in Milan next week. It was all sorted, then EasyJet cancelled my filiht back to Bristol Airport. I then had to rebook with British Airways. Their flights suited me down to the ground, although I had to stay over at Heathrow the night before to catch the cheap early flight, it meant I got the rest of the day to have a look around.

    Then cam the dreaded email from BA, this week, to tell be the flights had been cancelled because of the strike.

    My brain is not working too well today, but I’ve managed to rebook. I’m now flying from East Midlands! I’m hoping that it’s third time lucky and everything will go nice and smoothly this time… cross fingers for me!

  • Here’s a new drawing lesson – how to draw a whale. I’ve learned a bit doing this. Cetaceans are warm blooded mammals and the skeleton of their front flippers show that they once lived out of the water and had forearms with five digits. Returning to the water, their back legs almost disappeared. There are vestigial bones to show that they once had them and a pelvis too. That is why the Whales tail is different to a fish. It is horizontal. A fish tail is vertical. So now you know!

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  • I managed to get to Bodnant Gardens this afternoon. Not at it’s very best at this time of year, it is none the less a lovely place to go for a walk nestlings, as it does below the Snowdonia Mountains, which are still topped with snow at the moment.

    I did enjoy the trellissing in the rose garden. There us something very Parisian about it, almost as if they are girders from the eifel tower.