Indie Advent Calendar Day 20

DJ Cooper – Missing Remnants   Bio DJ Cooper is about 300 years old, writes science fiction/humour/weird, hails from another planet and is married with two teenage kids. The family has a house full of animals. Tropical fish, a degu called Sam (a small fluffy thing with a long tail, bigger than a hamster, smaller...

My uncle’s art

Today I thought I would put up some more of my uncle's art since I've been going through some more of the house and finding more things.

I learn a new word

Today, thanks to a blog I visited and enjoyed https://fullfrontispiece.wordpress.com/ I have learned a new word, Frontispiece. A frontispiece in books generally refers to a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, being the verso opposite the recto title page. While some books depict thematic elements, other books feature the author's portrait as the...

Two birds, one stone

Today seems to be a day for doing lots and accomplishing little; at least that's how it feels, I've probably accomplished more than I think. Since that's the case I thought I would make a brief list of what I have done today to make myself feel better, plus there's a few things I was...

Art in the park

There was a festival (a bit of a grand description for the event) in my local park over the weekend, and while heading to the charity shop to drop off some things this morning I decided to take a detour through the park to look at the results. There was a few really good pieces...

A kinky little offering

I hope no-one will be offended by this but I stumbled across it amongst the various drawings and paintings done by my great-uncle - I had no idea he had done anything like this; it's not the only one either, and was amused by it and thought I'd shared it. I'm not sure when he...

That time of life

the national newspapers. Since I've found these treasures, which I have to admit has given me great pleasure, I remember with fondness the hand painted Christmas cards I used to get as a child, I thought I would share some of them with you all. I hope you like them.