ICAD #9

Another day of highs and lows, though hopefully (if I run to bed in the next few minutes, lol), it will end on a high.  Was back at home in Berkshire this morning and got up early to strim the grass as it was way too long to attempt attacking it with the lawnmower.  Plus I wanted to keep the little yellow flowers in the creeping ground plant at the front, and the primroses and clover at the back.  The front was fairly quick and easy, the back required some weeding around Pippin's grave which triggered lots of memories, and some tears.  I'm welling up again now, just remembering.  I left half of the back lawn as meadow grass and plan to throw in some wild flower seed so hopefully will get poppies and cornflowers to go in the fine grasses.  The other half was strimmed down, leaving my yellow primroses, lots of clover and making the purple poppies and flag irises around Pippin's stone visible from the sitting room.  I pulled out loads of sticky weeds, not sure what it's called but it has square stalks and later in the summer would have little round seed pods that stick as well.  I filled a complete bin bag with it and still wasn't done!.

Hurtled back to London to be in time for acro-yoga but by the time we got here, I really wasn't in the mood.  Instead we wandered over to Greenwich to look for the 'sausage lady' to get some salami but she wasn't there.  So we ate Japanese teriyaki salmon, Italian cakes and bought rum truffles and ingredients to make raw chocolate.  We also did a Treasure Hunt quiz to win a watch and jewellery (not too bothered about winning but it was fun finding the answers!) and had a lovely chat with the man behind the counter in Johnny Rocket's jewellery store. 

Finished up with a soak in the jacuzzi and a splash in the pool back at the flat, hence the inspiration for the ICAD Day 9 card :-)

 Background drawn in watercolour pencils, inspired by the tiles in the swimming pool.  These were then 'washed' over with a brush dipped in water to make them look more paint-like and watery, then the "splash" logo was drawn over the top, firstly outlined in pencil, then inked in with CD marker pen.